Latest Headlines

    Tissue World Magazine, World News

    Kemira increases prices of polymer products in Europe

    Kemira has increased the price for its polymer product line by 4-8 % across all European countries. It said the price increase is “necessary due to overall significant cost increase and global...
    Tissue World Magazine, World News

    WEPA invests in new converting line in Germany

    (News from RISI) German tissue giant WEPA is set to raise the converting capacity at its Kriebethal tissue mill in Saxony. The company is investing in a new line for cosmetic wipes,...
    Tissue World Magazine, World News

    China’s Mancheng Paper to add two new TMs to Baoding mill

    (News from RISI) - Mancheng Paper (formerly known as Tiantian Paper) will install two new tissue production lines at its sole mill in Baoding city, Hebei province, northern China. Chinese supplier Liaoyang...
    Tissue World Magazine, World News

    PCMC launches tissue embosser-laminator Omnia

    PCMC has launched Omnia, a new tissue embosser-laminator that the supplier said will “offer customers’ flexibility and safety in a small footprint”. According to the supplier, the Omnia, which in Latin means...
    Tissue World Magazine, World News

    Resolute boosts capacity with Calhoun start-up

    Resolute Forest Products has boosted its private label capacity with the start-up of its new tissue machine in Tennessee. The first tissue parent roll was produced on 28 February 2017. It will...
    Tissue World Magazine, World News

    APP boosts capacity with TM investments

    Tissue giant Asia Pulp and Paper (APP) has invested in eight new tissue machines. Supplied by Toscotec, the scope of supply includes AHEAD-2.0L crescent former tissue machines with a net trim width...
    Tissue World Magazine

    Italy – T&T capacity leader in Western Europe

    By Bill Burns, Senior Consultant, Fisher International Italy is traditionally a major player in the story of tissue and today remains the capacity leader in the Western European market. Comparisons to competing countries within Italy’s natural...
    Tissue World Magazine

    Cascades launches household tissue range

    Cascades has targeted the consumer market with the launch of a range of household tissue products. Consisting of three varieties of toilet paper and two varieties of paper towels, the products will...
    Tissue World Magazine

    Japan’s Daio announces 10% hike for its household paper range

    (News from RISI) - Daio Paper has announced its intention to hike all of its household paper prices, on shipments starting from 1 May. The 10% hike will apply to tissue, toilet...
    Tissue World Magazine

    Italy’s Cartiera Ferrania to double capacity with installation of new tissue machine

    (News from RISI) - Italy’s Cartiera Ferrania will install a new tissue machine as well as a cogeneration plant, the Italian newspaper La Stampa reports. The mill currently produces some 30,000tpy of...
    Tissue World Magazine

    Universal Paper expands capacity with start-up

    South Africa’s Universal Paper Manufacturers has successfully started up its turn-key green field tissue mill at its Ga-Rankuwa mill. Start-up of TM5, a PMP-supplied Intelli-Tissue Advanced 1600 tissue making line, was achieved...
    Tissue World Magazine

    The countdown to TW Milan has started!

    Over 200 exhibitors and key industry speakers are gearing up for Tissue World’s leading exhibition and conference, held in Milan in just over two weeks’ time. With over 25 new exhibiting companies,...
    Tissue World Magazine

    Star Paper Mill boosts capacity

    United Arab Emirates-based Star Paper Mill is to increase its production capacity after signing a contract for the supply of a turnkey plant. Supplied by Recard, once up and running the investment...
    Tissue World Magazine

    Converting technology sector in positive mood heading into 2017

    Despite a modest 1.5% GDP growth forecast for the EU and a world economy still emerging from a lacklustre 2016, research by TWM sees Italy’s major companies expecting strong performances in 2017-18. By Martin...
    Tissue World Magazine

    ‘We are facing a sophistication of demand’

    Only in Italy could there be a fibre di latte, one of many pioneering products of fibre experts Lucart at its Diecimo site. In a price war when competition is fierce, balanced expansion...
    Tissue World Magazine

    Searching for distinction in a complex market

    When competition is fierce and price discounting dominates, niche, flexibility and targeted response to rapidly changing consumer demands become crucial. TWM visited family owned Industria Cartaria Fenili By Helen Morris, Senior editor, Tissue...

    We need greater speed on the production floor… and we need it now

    The Smart robotics revolution is underway to meet the rapid pace of change in the feminine, adult and baby care products markets. As E-commerce and other market trends demand an increased range of...
    Tissue World Magazine

    Tissue EU Ecolabel: its current success is the best proof that the scheme works...

    The tissue industry was stunned in November 2016 to hear that the EU College of Commissioners was considering not renewing three Ecolabels, including one of the most successful – the Ecolabel for tissue. This Ecolabel is a...

    My three-point guide to tissue etiquette

    Cheapest: too rough even for the toughest of men. Middle rank: comfortable, quality, full-bodied. Luxury: generally pointless, but essential for a girlfriend’s nose. I use toilet...
    Tissue World Magazine

    Defining the products of the future

      Greater efforts to save margins, fearless investment in technological innovation and new products, e-commerce selling, increasing of stakeholder engagement processes, potential double digit growth in the US. Luigi Lazzareschi, chief executive of the...
    Tissue World Magazine

    How will the tissue connection between Europe and North America continue?

    For several decades, North America and Europe shared some of the same tissue suppliers. However, during the last decade a lot has changed. Previously, North American companies were expanding into Europe, and now exactly the...
    Tissue World Magazine

    The Home of Tissue: driving forward innovation to create the products of the future

    It’s pressure which produces diamonds, and the fiercely competitive nature of the Italian market is producing some sparkling results. They have been called “smart factories,” but tissue factories have always been smart ... these are...
    Tissue World Magazine, World News

    Trevipapel Group boosts capacity with Steel Yankee investment

    Trevipapel Group has invested in a Toscotec-supplied tissue line at its Paper Prime mill in Vila Velha de Rodão, Portugal. The Steel Yankee Dryer TT SYD-16FT is due to be started-up in...
    Tissue World Magazine, World News

    Tissue World Magazine Mill Awards: entry submission is open!

    Tissue World is calling all green and innovative tissue mills across Western Europe to get in touch to showcase their latest developments in our TW Awards. If you are a tissue...
    Tissue World Magazine, World News

    Italian tissue mill Cartiera San Lorenzo hit by fire, production halted

    (News from RISI) - Italy’s Cartiera San Lorenzo was hit by a fire last week and forced to stop production. The local fire brigade said the fire originated in the plant’s production...
    Tissue World Magazine, World News

    Sofidel UK starts-up latest-generation tissue rewinder

    Sofidel UK has boosted its tissue production capacity after it started up a tissue rewinder at its Lancaster-based site. Supplied by A.Celli, the latest-generation tissue rewinder is a Mod. 865 and 3.4m...
    Tissue World Magazine, World News

    Hayat Kimya boosts presence with Egypt start-up

    Turkey’s Hayat Kimya has boosted its presence in the Middle East after it started-up a PM at its new mill in Egypt. The Valmet-supplied line will produce 70,000tpy of high quality facial,...
    Tissue World Magazine, World News

    Trevipapel Group boosts capacity with Steel Yankee investment

    Trevipapel Group has invested in a Toscotec-supplied tissue line at its Paper Prime mill in Vila Velha de Rodão, Portugal. The Steel Yankee Dryer TT SYD-16FT is due to be started-up in...
    Tissue World Magazine, World News

    Suzano to sell converted tissue products; investment in tissue increases to $176.1m

    (News from RISI) - Brazilian pulp and paper producer Suzano is to acquire converting equipment that will enable it to sell finished products in the tissue segment. The company is currently installing...
    Tissue World Magazine, World News

    Grupo Corporativo Papelera boosts capacity with tissue investment

    Grupo Corporativo Papelera has invested in a tissue machine for its Mexico-based site. Supplied by A.Celli, the line will add an additional 34,000 tonnes to the company’s annual production. The machine is 2.6m...
    Tissue World Magazine, World News

    Kemira hikes up prices

    Kemira has increased the price of its pulp and paper FennoSize AKD chemicals in EMEA. The price increase of the AKD sizing chemicals will be approximately 5-10%, depending on the specific formulations...
    Tissue World Magazine, World News

    Arkhbum to start up 70,000tpy tissue PM in H2 2018

    (News from RISI) - Arkhbum Tissue Group, managed by Arkhangelsk pulp and paper mill (APPM), has detailed a timeline for the construction of the greenfield tissue mill in Vorsino, in the...
    Tissue World Magazine, World News

    Daio Paper looking to buy Japanese tissue mills from Nisshinbo

    (News from RISI) Daio Paper has announced it is in talks to take over the tissue production activities of fellow Japanese firm Nisshinbo Holdings. The latter operates four mills in Japan. Two...
    Tissue World Magazine, World News

    Sofidel America boosts American capacity with rewinder investment

    Sofidel America has increased its presence in the American market after signing for a rewinder for its facility in Circleville, Ohio. Supplied by A.Celli Paper, the E-WIND T200 model has a width...
    Tissue World Magazine, World News

    Clearwater boosts private label capacity with $340m NTT investment

    Clearwater Paper has responded to customer demand for premium and ultra-premium products by investing in a second tissue machine and converting facility at its site in North Carolina. The 200-inch, Valmet-supplied NTT...
    Tissue World Magazine, World News

    China’s Guangxi Tianlifeng starts 20,000tpy tissue machine in Nanning

    (News from RISI) - Guangxi Tianlifeng has kicked off production on a new 20,000tpy tissue machine at its sole mill in Nanning city, in southwestern China’s Guangxi autonomous region. The first sheet...
    Tissue World Magazine, World News

    Tissue Italy appoints president for iT’s Tissue 2018

    Tissue Italy Network has appointed Massimo Franzaroli as president for iT’s Tissue 2018. He replaces Sergio Casella who has stepped down due to other commitments. Casella will remain on the board as vice...
    Tissue World Magazine, World News

    Lucart’s French site starts-up PM rebuild

    Lucart has started up its PM10 at its Laval sur Vologne mill after a rebuild project undertaken by Toscotec. The rebuild will boost the machine speed from the current 1,300mpm to 1,600mpm...
    Tissue World Magazine, World News

    Omet launches No-Stop unwinder

    Omet has responded to customer demand with the launch of the No-Stop unwinder. The patented module allows operators to change paper rolls without stopping the machine within a specific timeframe, which according...
    Tissue World Magazine, World News

    Resolute reports results; prepares to ramp-up Calhoun tissue operations

    Resolute Forest Products has reported a net loss for the quarter ended 31 December 2016 of $45m, compared to a loss of $214m in the same period a year earlier. Sales were...