The advantage of competition often lies not so much in the capability to design and create excellent machines, but rather in the services and infrastructures necessary to allow companies to use them at their best.
Each year for the past 40 years, at the end of October, for a few days Lucca becomes the world capital of comic strips, organizing exhibitions and hosting editors and artists coming from the world over. In the Tuscan city, the MUF is born, the Italian Comics Museum, where the characters of the "talking clouds" have found a permanent home and propose their story to the loving fans of this genre.
A small but fast moving company in the heart of Germany, Fripa has stayed ahead of the competition by investing in ultra modern converting lines and packaging systems to give it extreme flexibility.
Perini Journal recently visited CMPC Tissue to talk about the company, the markets in which it is operating, the growth in recent years and the outlook for the future.
With its over 100-year history, Melhoramentos represents an icon for the paper and tissue industry. Thanks to a diversification in investments, today the group is active in the fields of publishing, tissue manufacturing and converting (consumer and AFH segments) and in the agricultural-forest industry and fibers market (CTMP and TGW).
Perini Journal takes a look at the general developments in Mexico regarding the economy, the pulp and paper industry and the tissue business.
The United States constitutes by far the biggest tissue market in the world, at a value of over US$11 billion, according to research from Euromonitor International.
Lucart is a brand in its most modern meaning: a promise, a great idea and the right answer the customers’ expectations towards a company, a service, a product.
Tissue production has reached a milestone in 2005 but there are worrying signs that too many investments will lead to serious overcapacity.
Pulp and paper equipment producer Andritz has been growing in the tissue sector and broadening its product line. It recently entered the TAD sector and is also adding a new compact tissue making unit to its lineup. We spoke with two top executives at the company to find out more.
Safety in the workplace is the subject of specific and wide-ranging legislation. It establishes the rules which all companies must follow in order to guarantee their personnel the best possible level of safety.
Just one year after the launch of the Moon roll, “The full moon” (see PJL n. 24), this product by Cartindustria Veneta has already become an item of design. It is mentioned in the ADI Design Index 2005, the yearbook published by the “Osservatorio Permanente del Design”, connected to the triennial selection for the “XXI Premio Compasso D’Oro ADI” award.
A new approach to pressing, which uses a flexible nip instead of rigid steel to deliver the pressure, will give a uniform nip load across the Yankee over a wide range of linear loads. Here we take a brief look at the new ViscoNip and the possible benefits for tissue makers.
The Perini Journal, in recent issues particularly interested in the relationships between the tissue industry and large-scale retail trade, recently interviewed Massimo Gai, Lucart’s Consumer Sales Director for Italy.
Edana’s innovative Nonwovens Research Academy got off to a great start in April 2005.
In French it is written eventail, in Italian ventaglio, in German der fasher, in Spanish el abanico, and in Russian, the one shaped like a fan is called veier and the one shaped like a screen is called opakhalo. What are we talking about…? But of fans, obviously.
The cultural qualities of traditional Japanese aesthetics, in particular their sobriety and elegance, have always aroused great interest. Through their art, the great illustrators of the past have given us the possibility to discover and appreciate the most important aspects of these qualities.
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