News in brief: Essel Kâgit start up new tissue line at Osmaniye mill

Latin America’s tissue paper and products producer Grandbay group, an affiliate of Canada’s Kruger Inc. is expanding its production capacities in Colombia. The group’s subsidiary Grandbay Papeles Nacionales has tapped Italy’s Toscotec to deliver a new tissue paper machine for the company’s Pereira mill. The order was...

Papelera Internacional, which is part of Latin America‘s Grandbay group, has started up its new tissue machine at the Rio Hondo Zacapa mill in Guatemala. The new TM was delivered by Toscotec who put the capacity at 60,000 tpy. It has a width of 5.5 m and runs at speeds of up to 2,200 m/min. As recently reported,...

Metsä Tissue is to carry out wide-ranging modernisation and expansion work at its mill in Mariestad, Sweden, as part of its Future Mill Programme. This project is to raise the availability of sustainably produced tissue products made locally in the Scandinavian market. Around 40 per cent of tissue consumed in this...