We have noticed that in the pages of this Journal we often speak about innovation.

Background: with a global value of 10,620 million Euros registered in 2005 and a forecast of 11,829 million Euros for 20101, the AfH tissue market, thanks to the rise in consumption, presents optimal growth opportunities both in terms of volume as well as value.

Spa is the acronym of salus per aquam, the Latin phrase that literally means “health through water”.

Starting on a small scale in the 1980s, Fapsa has moved into higher gear with the aim to have 10% market share in Mexico by 2010. Another new PM is being planned, as is an increasing emphasis on private label.

Resurrecting a bankrupt mill, Lincoln Paper and Tissue has grown by focusing carefully on costs, customers and efficiency. It has also very rapidly added a third tissue machine to serve its growing market for parent rolls.

Starting with a very small operation, Twin Pines has grown slowly. The long-term plan is to become a vertically integrated operation with a paper machine making tissue from office waste as raw material and converting at the same site to provide excellent products and service to the local markets.

In 2002, Malcolm Eaton Enterprises installed a tissue converting line to fulfill state contracts. Now it is growing further through the launch of its own brand, Spirit bathroom tissue, which has begun appearing on store shelves in mid-America.

With a turnover of 20,000,000 USD Trinidad Tissues Limited is a 100% total quality company!

In many developed markets, particularly Western Europe and Japan, the tissue industry has seen increasing pressures in recent years due to the threat of private label products, unfavourable demographics and higher raw material costs. Across the Atlantic, the story is completely different with overall tissue products’ sales seeing steady value growth of 5% in North America and 7% in Latin America during 2006.

Nothing noble is done without risk” stated the winner of the Nobel prize for literature, André Gide. Under the aegis of this quote was held Tecnologia e Passione 2007, promoted by the Fondazione Lazzareschi and hosted this year by Elettric80

What will the future invent next? That is a good question. I have taken out my crystal ball to see what's coming up, but the answer is not simple.

For about ten years now in the world of tissue, particularly in tissue making, we have been speaking about machine safety systems, calling on the phantom “level 3” in opposition to “level 2”.

Interest has been very high as CMPC has tested new technology that could have a big impact on tissuemaking.

Starting with a simple reflection on how, in marketing, the product’s package holds a primary promotional role, KPL Packaging S.p.A. has launched the new Casmatic CUBE® machine on the market, the first wrapper that can package rolls in up to three layers. Here are the features and the advantages of this new technology.

Iordanis Samlidis is a mechanical engineer from Katerini, a town in the province of Thessaloniki, in Greece. Today, not yet 30 years old, he heads a company of 34 employees.

CoreLab is a laboratory. In the widest possible sense of the word. It treats paper and all the things that can be done with it. Or that can be done to it in order to improve it and make it appropriate for new uses. It does not treat only – even though it bears the word in its name – cores, the cardboard tubes for tissue products. But it is in cores that it excels.

A new generation of softening agents offers impressive opportunities for the tissue market. Adhesin® FiberPlus from Henkel is a new innovative product in terms of softness and makes for a real difference and convenience in tissue production. It is designed to be used in the manufacture of toilet paper, handkerchiefs, napkins and facial tissues.

Through a simple mathematical equation, 30 x 2 = 60, Mili S.A. has conquered a leadership position in the Brazilian market thanks to its new 60-meter long roll. An intuition by company president Valdemar Lissoni that is worth double, given the success in sales registered in the last year. Why a 60-meter roll and what differentiates it from others present on the market? Perini Journal asked President Lissoni.

The success of collages has spanned through part of the 20th century, favoring and deeply affecting the evolution of pictorial art. The addition of paper cut-outs (cardboard, newspapers, photos…) on the sheet has widened the possibilities of expression, allowing to interpret our times through new, stimulating forms.

Would you be a publisher today? Evidently, there is still someone who answers yes to this question. And it’s hard to understand if in these people what prevails is stubborn intelligence or sheer foolhardiness.