Over the Wire - Tissue Edition

An overwhelming majority of people (79%) prefer touchless towel dispensers to air dryers...

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Kimberly-Clark's (Dallas, Texas, USA) Cottonelle brand is trying to solve one of life's great puzzles once and for all, i.e., should toilet paper be hung so that it rolls over or under?

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A comprehensive tissue program is planned for TAPPI PaperCon 2010, May 2 - 5, in Atlanta, Ga.

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Ashland Hercules Water Technologies, Wilmington, Del., USA, reports that it is immediately increasing prices globally for all sizing agents, all wet strength resins, and specialty resin additives as contract and indexed-based pricing allows.

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BASF, Charlotte, N.C., USA, reports that it will increase prices for wet end paper chemicals sold into the North American paper market from 5% to 15%...

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Pulp markets are remaining tight, a result of tight pulpwood supplies and other constraints in the U.S., strong Chinese demand, and an increase in demand for spot tonnage in the U.S.

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Georgia-Pacific, Atlanta, Ga., USA, reports that it has joined the Mother Nature Network (MNN), a web site for environmental news and information viewed by more than 5 million people last year.

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Innventia, Stockholm, Sweden, an R&D group involved in development relating to pulp, paper, graphic media, packaging and biorefining, reports that it is starting a new Research Cluster with a focus on tissue.

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Hanke Tissue, Kostrzyn, Poland, has successfully started up a new hydraulic headbox and related system supplied last fall by PMPoland S.A.

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Metsä Tissue Corp., Finand, has again received honors for its achievements in branding.

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Nanning Phoenix Pulp & Paper Co., Guangxi, China, this week ordered a new tissue machine from Andritz, Graz, Austria.

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Pudumjee Agro Industries, India, Part of the M.P. Jatia Group, has completed the rebuild of No. 6 tissue machine at its Pune city, Maharashtra state, mill.

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SCA's new tissue line at its mill near Mexico City, Mexico, will have an electrical system supplied by ABB, Helsinki, Finland.

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Offered for the first time in years, TAPPI is "unrolling" the Tissue Runnability Course April 19-21 at the association's Atlanta, Ga., USA, headquarters.

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Wepa Lucca, Italy, this week reported that it has completed and started up a major rebuild of the wet end section of its No.1 Tissue Machine (TM 1) in Cassino, Italy.

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Cartiera Lucchese, Spain-based tissue and towel producer, reports that it won first prize in the project promoted by Coop Italia ("Coop for Kyoto") for having recorded the highest reduction in carbon dioxide emissions of all Coop Italia suppliers at its production sites...

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Canadian-based tissue and paper producer Cascades has won the "Top Green Supplier," "Intellichoix" and "'Energia" awards in the field of technological innovation.

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SCA, Stockholm, Sweden, reports that for the sixth consecutive year it has been recognized as one of the world's 100 most sustainable companies by Canadian Corporate Knights.

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BTG, Switzerland, reports that it has hired two industry specialists to conduct and evolve the company's Total Tissue Capability (TTC) project , a one-stop product and service package launched in the spring of 2008 to help tissue makers cut costs and optimize their process.

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The TAPPI Yankee Dryer Safety and Reliability Committee is a group of owner/users and service providers who have engaged to reduce drying system delay that causes low productivity and negatively impacts dryer safety and overall business results.

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