Wednesday, 12 April 2017 10:07
Pro-Gest awards Kemira with a start-up contract at a green field board machine in Mantova, Italy
Kemira has been awarded a start-up contract at Pro-Gest Mantova in Italy, the only green field containerboard machine in Europe in recent years. Kemira will supply the start-up with all water treatment and wet end chemistries in line with its…
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Wednesday, 12 April 2017 10:02
A Valmet supplied demonstration scale plant for second generation sugar extraction officially opened at Sappi Ngodwana Mill in South Africa
In 2016 Sappi and Valmet agreed on a joint development project to deliver a demonstration plant to Sappi Ngodwana Mill in South Africa in order to explore and optimize the extraction of biorenewable chemicals. The demonstration plant was officially opened…
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Wednesday, 12 April 2017 08:31
Hygienic Tissue successfully starts up a Toscotec-supplied tissue machine at its Pietermaritzburg plant, in South Africa.
On 4th April, the South African tissue producer Hygienic Tissue started up their new MODULO-PLUS tissue machine supplied by Toscotec. With an annual production capacity of 27,000 tonnes, the unit will increase the total mill’s production capacity by threefold. Hygienic…
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Monday, 10 April 2017 14:50
Valmet and Solar Turbines establish cooperation agreement to share expertise and experience
Valmet and Solar Turbines Incorporated (a Caterpillar company) have agreed to cooperate with a view to further develop integrated gas turbine cogeneration systems for the tissue industry. The target of the joint development of the energy optimizing systems is to…
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Monday, 10 April 2017 14:42
WEPA starts up the new AHEAD-2.0S PM21 tissue machine at its Piechowice plant in Poland.
WEPA group, based in the Westphalian city of Arnsberg, announces the successful start-up of the new Toscotec’s 32,000 tpy tissue line installed at Piechowice Mill, Poland. The machine went easily in operation on 9th February, eleven months after the beginning…
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Monday, 10 April 2017 09:27
Valmet to supply an Advantage ThruAir tissue production line to Irving Consumer Products
Valmet will supply a new Advantage ThruAir (TAD) machine for Irving Consumer Products. The new machine increases Irving's capacity for premium household paper products. The machine will be delivered in 2018, and will support Irving's ambition to provide premium products…
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Monday, 10 April 2017 09:17
Tissue World Milan: Efficient production with Voith XcelLine tissue machines
XcelLine: In the last few months, Voith has sold 15 XcelLine tissue machines to customers from all over the world. Tissue World in Milan will be the ideal place to see Voith’s XcelLine tissue machines, new solutions to increase the…
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Friday, 07 April 2017 07:45
First Valmet Advantage NTT machine in Europe successfully started at Renova in Portugal
In late January Portuguese tissue manufacturer Renova produced its first jumbo roll on the first Valmet Advantage NTT tissue line in Europe. The Renova 2 mill, near Torres Novas, Portugal, will utilize the flexibility of the hybrid machine to produce…
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Friday, 07 April 2017 07:41
Arjowiggins graphic and Ovendens deliver ‘eggsellent’ Easter campaign to showcase the capabilities of teknocard
Arjowiggins Graphic, the leading manufacturer of environmental paper solutions, and independent paper merchant Ovendens has just launched a playful Easter campaign to showcase the versatility and technical attributes of the Teknocard board range. The campaign will see printers receive an…
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Friday, 07 April 2017 07:34
MTORRES has acquired UTT, an experienced Italian Company in the tissue industry for complete automatic converting lines
MTORRES DISEÑOS INDUSTRIALES, S.A.U. and UNIVERSAL TISSUE TECHNOLOGY, Srl, have just announced the acquisition by MTORRES of Universal Tissue Technology (UTT). The company will operate under the name of MTORRES TISSUE. This new MTORRES TISSUE brand will be able to…
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Friday, 07 April 2017 07:27
CEN/TC 172/WG 3 Group. FCMs Experts in FCMs at working in Lucca at Ecol Studio
The group of experts of CEN / TC 172 / WG 3: Analytical methods for the evaluation of paper and paperboard in contact with food, met on April 6 at the Ecol Studio headquarters in Lucca. The Working Group deals…
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Thursday, 06 April 2017 10:13
Italian producer Ariete S.r.l. – Futura Line S.p.a. Group – chooses Toscotec for the installation of a new tissue machine.
Ariete S.r.l., Italian company producing high quality tissue paper, has ordered a new MODULO-PLUS machine from Toscotec for its paper mill in Cava dei Tirreni (Salerno), Italy. The new tissue machine replaces the exiting one and startup is scheduled for…
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Thursday, 06 April 2017 10:01
Stora Enso’s Langerbrugge mill reached a milestone of 5 million tonnes of newsprint paper produced
On 5 April 2017, less than 14 years after the start-up of the newsprint paper machine at Stora Enso Langerbrugge, the mill reached a milestone of 5 million tonnes of newsprint produced. The Giant of Ghent in Belgium is one…
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Thursday, 06 April 2017 09:56
Magnetic filter for paperpulp
Pieces of steel wire cause machine damage and production downtime Goudsmit Magnetics Group of Waalre has recently made a series of magnetic filters that are suitable for removing baling wire from paper pulp. These steel wires hold bales of cellulose…
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Wednesday, 05 April 2017 08:41
Xerium to Present Energy Saving Roll Technology at the Tissue World Conference in Milan, Italy
Xerium Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: XRM), a leading global provider of industrial consumable products and services, announced today that Mr. Philipp Salmannshofer, Press Optimization & Application Manager for EMEA, will present a technical paper titled “Energy Savings from Advances in Tissue…
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