According to the Idaho Statesman, a woman paid almost double the regular price for toilet paper at a popular grocery store chain owned by Albertsons during the coronavirus pandemic, a California lawsuit claims. In a proposed class action filed in California federal court, shopper and plaintiff Eleisha Redmond said she made purchases at a San Francisco Safeway, where she paid almost $19 for Angel Soft toilet paper. The lawsuit claims the regular price for the toilet paper is about $10 at that grocery store.

China’s Baoding Yuexing Paper has started trial production on a new 15,000-mtpy tissue machine at its sole mill in Baoding city, Hebei province. The first sheet of paper rolled off the line in late June. Provided by domestic supplier Hebei Mancheng Changda Paper Machinery, the unit features a trim width of 3.55 m and a design speed of 900 m/min. Baoding Yuexing Paper once operated several small tissue PMs with a combined capacity of approximately 10,000 mtpy. All of them were retired before the startup of the new machine.

Italian tissue producer Cartiere Carrara will receive Euro 15 million ($17 million) in financing from UniCredit. The loan has been obtained via the national program Garanzia Italia, launched by the government to support Italian firms’ liquidity. According to the bank, the financing, which will last six years, will be used by the company to manage its increasing liquidity needs and to back its investments in Italy. Cartiere Carrara recently started the rebuild of tissue machine, PM 3, at its Pratovecchio mill.

KP Tissue Inc. (KPT), which holds a limited partnership interest in Kruger Products L.P. (KPLP), has announced that Michael Korenberg has, effective immediately, resigned as chairman and a director of KPT and as a director of KPGP Inc., the general partner of KPLP. We sincerely thank him for his four years of service and leadership on the board. With Korenberg's resignation, KPT is now seeking the appointment of a new independent director on its board, who will also serve as a nominee of KPT on the board of KPGP Inc. KP Tissue Inc. (KPT) was created to acquire, and its business is limited to holding, a limited partnership interest in KPLP.