Over the Wire - Tissue Edition

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Goldenrod Corp.
Issue Spotlight
SCA’s tissue mill in Gien, France, has improved the quality of its production water by 60%, thanks to a new biological water treatment station.

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As previously announced, the company has made plans to add two additional TAD paper machines with an estimated annual capacity of 140,000 tons.

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Kimberly-Clark reports that its Scott Brand tissue products selected Southwestern Middle School in Tippecanoe County, Ind., as the recipient of a $25,000 donation to be used for educational needs.

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Kruger Products LP reports that its White Cloud products named 14-year-old Ryan Reyes from Brooklyn, N.Y., USA, the grand prize winner of its national tissue box design contest with Children's Miracle Network Hospitals®.

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GapCon
GoIndustry (UK) Limited
Market Roundup
Company announced a price increase on its towel and tissue products of up to 8%, effective for all orders placed after July 1.

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A total of 63.5% of paper consumed in the U.S. was recovered for recycling in 2013, according to the AF&PA.

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Tissue/Toweling Industry News
Clearwater Paper, Spokane, Wash., USA, becomes one of only nine such OSHA VPP sites in the state of Nevada.

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Company and Andritz bring second tissue machine online, following the earlier startup of company's TM 1 PrimeLine tissue machine at the same mill.

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Kruger Products LP has completed the acquisition of all of Metro Paper Industries Inc.'s Canadian tissue converting assets, located in Trenton, Ont., and Scarborough, Ont., for a total cash consideration of $23.5 million.

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Company obtains a dry content after the press that is 5% higher than with conventional technologies, allowing it to save 20% thermal energy in the dryer section.

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Strategic alliance is expected to allow Orchids to effectively and efficiently service customers in the western U.S.

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The Romanian tissue producer Petrocart has successfully started up its new Toscotec tissue production line installed at Piatra Neamt, headquarters of the company since 1908

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Sweden-based SCA and its Australian partner, Pacific Equity Partners, have decided to float their joint venture in Australia, New Zealand, and Fiji on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX).

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Company announced that TENA Identifi, a new continence care technology, is in the final stages of regulatory clearance for an introduction to the U.S. market.

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Germany-based Voith officially opened its new training center at a recent ceremony attended by Minister President Winfried Kretschmann (state of Baden-Württemberg), Education Minister Andreas Stoch, and numerous members of the Voith family.

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Company reports that it will significantly upgrade two of its tissue mills—at Natchez, Miss., and Cordova, N.C.

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Wausau's new premium towels are crafted from the company’s ATMOS technology-enabled paper machine at Harrodsburg, Ky.

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Automatic Handling International Inc. (AHI), Erie, Mich., USA, reports that it has been selected to supply a fully automatic pulp bale handling and dewiring system to a northern Wisconsin tissue mill.

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New Technologies
Company reports that the delivery program, originally launched in the U.S. in 2009, is now expanding throughout North America into a single program, with identical product offerings and lead times for customers in the U.S., Canada, and Mexico.

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In specific manufacturing operations, lifter has proved to reduce back strain and the workers comp claims that accompany them.

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Latest generation of company's reach stackers was designed based on many years of development work and close partnerships with customers.

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LSC TecoSens sensor and Voith LSC TecoScan scanner for non-radioactive measurement of fiber weight and moisture content are now installed around the world.

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Festo Corp
Xerium Technologies, Inc.