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Goldenrod Corp.
Issue Spotlight
SCA’s tissue mill in Gien, France, has improved the quality of its production water by 60%, thanks to a new biological water treatment station.
 
As previously announced, the company has made plans to add two additional TAD paper machines with an estimated annual capacity of 140,000 tons.
 
Kimberly-Clark reports that its Scott Brand tissue products selected Southwestern Middle School in Tippecanoe County, Ind., as the recipient of a $25,000 donation to be used for educational needs.
 
Kruger Products LP reports that its White Cloud products named 14-year-old Ryan Reyes from Brooklyn, N.Y., USA, the grand prize winner of its national tissue box design contest with Children's Miracle Network Hospitals®.
 
GapCon
GoIndustry (UK) Limited
Market Roundup
Company announced a price increase on its towel and tissue products of up to 8%, effective for all orders placed after July 1.
 
A total of 63.5% of paper consumed in the U.S. was recovered for recycling in 2013, according to the AF&PA.
 
Tissue/Toweling Industry News
Clearwater Paper, Spokane, Wash., USA, becomes one of only nine such OSHA VPP sites in the state of Nevada.
 
Company and Andritz bring second tissue machine online, following the earlier startup of company's TM 1 PrimeLine tissue machine at the same mill.
 
Kruger Products LP has completed the acquisition of all of Metro Paper Industries Inc.'s Canadian tissue converting assets, located in Trenton, Ont., and Scarborough, Ont., for a total cash consideration of $23.5 million.
 
Company obtains a dry content after the press that is 5% higher than with conventional technologies, allowing it to save 20% thermal energy in the dryer section.
 
Strategic alliance is expected to allow Orchids to effectively and efficiently service customers in the western U.S.
 
The Romanian tissue producer Petrocart has successfully started up its new Toscotec tissue production line installed at Piatra Neamt, headquarters of the company since 1908
 
Sweden-based SCA and its Australian partner, Pacific Equity Partners, have decided to float their joint venture in Australia, New Zealand, and Fiji on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX).
 
Company announced that TENA Identifi, a new continence care technology, is in the final stages of regulatory clearance for an introduction to the U.S. market.
 
Germany-based Voith officially opened its new training center at a recent ceremony attended by Minister President Winfried Kretschmann (state of Baden-Württemberg), Education Minister Andreas Stoch, and numerous members of the Voith family.
 
Company reports that it will significantly upgrade two of its tissue mills—at Natchez, Miss., and Cordova, N.C.
 
Wausau's new premium towels are crafted from the company’s ATMOS technology-enabled paper machine at Harrodsburg, Ky.
 
Automatic Handling International Inc. (AHI), Erie, Mich., USA, reports that it has been selected to supply a fully automatic pulp bale handling and dewiring system to a northern Wisconsin tissue mill.
 
New Technologies
Company reports that the delivery program, originally launched in the U.S. in 2009, is now expanding throughout North America into a single program, with identical product offerings and lead times for customers in the U.S., Canada, and Mexico.
 
In specific manufacturing operations, lifter has proved to reduce back strain and the workers comp claims that accompany them.
 
Latest generation of company's reach stackers was designed based on many years of development work and close partnerships with customers.
 
LSC TecoSens sensor and Voith LSC TecoScan scanner for non-radioactive measurement of fiber weight and moisture content are now installed around the world.
 
 
Festo Corp
Xerium Technologies, Inc.

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