Over the Wire - Tissue Edition

Procter & Gamble, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA, reports that its Charmin toilet paper participated in the recent Seventeenth Annual Trenary, Mich., Outhouse Classic, where thousands of attendees came to watch and cheer for the country's, and possibly the world's, "fastest outdoor bathroom."

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

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Preliminary reports suggest that the recent 8.8 magnitude earthquake in Chile may rattle the supply/demand balance in world pulp markets...

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Considering the impact of the earthquake supply shock on Chile, Wilde says that the world market pulp rally should continue.

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Sappi Fine Paper Europe, Brussels, Belgium, this week confirmed that the effect of the recent massive earthquake in Chile on the global supply of pulp will put additional pressure on it, and on the European paper and tissue industry as a whole, to raise prices.

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Botnia, Finland, increased its pulp prices in Europe, beginning March 1 until further notice.

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Södra, Sweden, increased the price of its softwood pulp by $30 per metric ton, beginning March 1.

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Cascades Tissue Group, Kingsey Falls, Que., Canada, has won the Gold in the Products and Services category of the Magellan Awards by the League of American Communications Professionals (LACP), based on its educational campaign about hand drying, which included a press release, a micro-site, and a printed and television advertisement.

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Clearwater Paper Corp., Spokane, Wash., USA, spun-off from Lewiston, Idaho-based Potlatch Corp. in December 2008, recently reported that as part of its growth strategy, the company plans to increase its capacity to produce "ultra-quality" tissue papers.

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Clearwater Paper Corp., Spokane, Wash., USA, reported this week that it will be the first U.S. tissue supplier to offer consumer products from responsibly managed Forest Stewardship Council (FSC)-certified forests and be awarded Chain-of-Custody (CoC) certification by the Rainforest Alliance's SmartWood program.

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First Quality Tissue, Great Neck, N.Y., USA, is considering Augusta, Ga.; and Anderson, S.C.; as possible sites for a new 2-million-square-foot tissue mill...

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Georgia-Pacific, Atlanta, Ga., USA, announced this past week that its Professional group's enMotion brand of touchless paper towel dispensers has received the Best Marketing Innovation of the Decade Award, presented by Georgia State University's Robinson College of Business and the Atlanta Business Chronicle.

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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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Kimberly-Clark Corp., Dallas, Texas, USA, was recently recognized as one of the "Best Corporate Citizens" by Corporate Responsibility Magazine, Edison, N.J., for the second consecutive year.

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Kimberly-Clark Corp., Dallas, Texas, USA, this past week announced that Robert N. "Bob" Stargel, Jr., VP of Global Nonwovens, has been named to Savoy Professional magazine's 2010 list of "Most Influential Blacks in Corporate America."

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Mediterranean Paper Mills (MPM), Syria, has ordered a new tissue line from Toscotec (Italy) to be installed as a replacement for TM 1 at the company's Jableh, Lattakia, mill.

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Metsä Tissue, Finland, advised this past week that the current dock worker strike in Finland will not significantly impact shipments of its tissue products.

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

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SCA, Sweden, recently inaugurated Russia's first Greenfield tissue mill in 30 years, located in the Sovetsk, Tula region, some 200 kilometers south of Moscow.

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SCA Tissue North America, Philadelphia, Pa., USA, has promoted James Carmichael to the position of VP, Human Resources.

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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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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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