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Issue Spotlight
SCA, Stockholm, Sweden, has for the seventh year in a row received the Product of the Year/Товар года award in Russia for Zewa toilet paper.
Learn More... Sustainability, carbon footprint, and green initiatives are among the hottest topics in the tissue business today. Customers and consumers, retailers and distributors, governments and NGOs, buyers, and sellers are all focusing more attention on this area.
Learn More... Metsä Tissue, Espoo, Finland, has been awarded a grant of more than EUR 400,000 by the European Commission as part of its Sustainable Industry Low Carbon (SILC) Scheme.
Learn More... Kimberly-Clark Professional, Roswell, Ga., USA, has received the 2011 Sustainability Award from Marriott International, and is the first product supplier to receive the award that recognizes organizations for helping Marriott reach its environmental sustainability goals worldwide.
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From The Experts
Following accusations of Asia Pulp & Paper’s (APP) deforestation in Indonesia, now eight large retailers have decided to stop carrying the Paseo tissue products manufactured with APP virgin fiber.
Learn More... Market Roundup
Prices for wood waste, have been sliding for most of the past three years, but were still higher in the fourth quarter of 2011 in most regions than they were five years ago, according to the North American Wood Fiber Review (NAWFR), Seattle, Wash., USA.
Learn More... North American softwood pulp markets remain weak, but hardwood appears to have bottomed.
Learn More... Wood chip exports from Latin America are on track to reach a record high of almost eight million tons in 2011, reports the Wood Resource Quarterly (WRQ), Seattle, Wash., USA.
Learn More... Tissue/Toweling Industry News
Fabrica De Papel San Francisco S.A. de C.V., Mexicali, Mexico, has ordered a complete tissue production line from Metso, Finland, to startup in the second quarter of 2013.
Learn More... Fushun Mining Group, China, has successfully started up a new Andritz (Graz, Austria) PrimeLine tissue machine.
Learn More... Gorham Paper and Tissue reportedly has purchased a new tissue machine for its mill in Gorham, N.H., USA, that will be installed and brought on-stream by the end of this September.
Learn More... Georgia-Pacific, Atlanta, Ga., USA, has accepted SCA’s (Stockholm, Sweden) binding offer to acquire G-P’s European tissue operations, following consultations with appropriate works councils.
Learn More... Metsä Tissue, Espoo, Finland, reports that it will close its production, converting, and supply chain operations at the Konstancin-Jeziorna mill near Warsaw, Poland.
Learn More... Ningxia Bauhinia Paper Co., Yinchuan, China, has started up on-schedule a new Toscotec (Italy) Ahead 1.5M tissue line.
Learn More... SCA, Stockholm, Sweden, has ordered a new tissue machine from Voith Paper, Germany, to be installed at SCA's Kostheim mill in Germany.
Learn More... The Syassky Pulp and Paper Mill (PPM), Syasstroy, St. Petersburg Region, Russia,, has started up a new Toscotec (Italy) Ahead 1.5M tissue line.
Learn More... Metsäliitto Group, Finland, has changed its name to Metsä Group and adopted a new corporate identity.
Learn More... Tissue machinery and equipment supplier Toscotec, Lucca, Italy, a member of the Mennucci Group, has acquired Milltech, a Lucca-based supplier of advanced solutions for drying to the paper industry.
Learn More... Wausau Paper, Mosinee, Wis., USA, this week announced an agreement with Starboard Value LP and its affiliates regarding composition of the company’s board of directors
Learn More... New Technologies
Cascades Tissue Group, Waterford, N.Y., USA, has launched its Moka™ 100% recycled, unbleached bathroom tissue, a first-of-its-kind product available to the away-from-home (AFH) market.
Learn More... Graphic Packaging International (GPI), Marietta, Ga., USA, and Vacumet, Franklin, Va., have teamed up for a new product launch for Kimberly-Clark Corp., Dallas, Texas.
Learn More... New Embossing Pattern enhances look and feel of the towels, while improving absorption and strength.
Learn More... Yankee Dryer Safety and Reliability Committee
The Tissue World and TAPPI 2012 Yankee Summit will take place March 20 at Tissue World Americas 2012 (March 20 -23) at the Miami Beach Convention Center, Miami Beach, Fla., USA.
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