Pro-Gest to relocate machines and close tissue plant

Pro-Gest has now also resumed tissue production at its mills after almost ten days of downtime. A company spokesperson told EUWID that the machines were restarted on 16 March. However, they were currently running at only half of their design capacity, he added. The Italian group had stopped producing tissue paper and...

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...