The reward for anyone who climbs a mountain is the conquest of a privileged point of view.

Carbon is the chemical element of the periodic table having the symbol C, atomic number 6 and atomic weight 12.01

An unmistakable scent, a complex aroma, a strange chemical code that springs from the subsoil and attracts animals and people like a magnet: truffle.

May 12, 2008: we’re off! Destination: Casablanca (Dar-el–Beida). Our trip will start from there and will take us to Meknes (Medersa Bou Inania), Imperial City built in the XIV century during the reign of the Merinidi, finished in 1358 by Bou Inan and home to SIPAT.

A combination of too many suppliers and too much tonnage has meant poor profitability for Japan’s tissue makers. There are, however, some signs that the market might finally be getting in better balance.

Starting as a small family company more than 50 years ago, Marutomi has built a growing nationwide business by focusing smartly on niches such as recycled fiber and coreless toilet rolls.

The Indian economy is surging, a giant middle class is becoming wealthier and the paper industry is investing. Will growth in tissue be next?

The Indian tissue market, by most calculations, seems ready to grow. And Century Paper’s decision to make large quantities of prime grade tissue may help push it along even faster.

Previously positioned mainly in the away-from-home sector, Pudumjee last year moved into the consumer area as well. A key to growth for the future could be through a joint venture with an international partner for a big new mill.

A new 100 tpd Voith tissue machine that started in June will help Pakistan’s Packages Ltd. increase volumes and quality, both in the domestic market and throughout the region. It is all part of a big plan to become a major regional player in numerous paper and board sectors.

The traditional appointment with Private Label was held this year on May 27 and 28 in Amsterdam. Protagonist of this edition was the wave of new supermarket, hypermarket and discount chain products in Europe: in 2007, almost 15,000 new private label products were launched on the market by European retailers, registering an increase of 25% with respect to the previous year.

Aside from Latin America, the Asia-Pacific region offered manufacturers the highest absolute growth rates in 2007, as the combined size of its tissue products markets grew by an excess of US$500 million. By the end of Euromonitor International’s forecast period in 2012, total revenue generated will almost be on a par with that of the world’s number two region, Western Europe.

European leader thanks to its high quality standards, the national market is suffering from the considerable increase in production costs. Volumes, consumption and exports are down.

Let’s start with a definition.

The history of safety management systems is longer than anyone making his or her first approach to the field today may realize.

It’s time to take carbon footprint seriously, says Södra Cell’s Bengt Wiberg, not least because the tissue industry stands to benefit.

1948-2008: Toscotec celebrates 60 years of activity. Innovation as a trademark.

A new tissue category, NTT, gives bulk approaching TAD at costs near DCT.

The over 800 patents filed bearing his name testify as to how Engineer Memo Bagiotti has been one of the main protagonists in the development of tissue converting machine technology.

Sitting down to speak about tissue products innovation with Martin Krengel - CEO Management Sales & Marketing and shareholder of Wepa - is an interesting and learning experience.

Clean Paper, located in Lucca, Italy, is a company where ideas make the difference. The team is comprised of 25 people and captained by the two founding partners, Giorgio Bartoloni S.Omer and Federigo Faina, who in 1996 introduced a new vision/philosophy for the pocket handkerchiefs market.

He used his creativity and his poetry in many aspects of communication but, above all, he taught us to see the world through the eyes of a child.

Evening gowns, finely decorated capes, brightly colored caftans, regally designed women’s dresses, handbags, shoes and accessories. Over eighty works in paper presented some months ago by Isabelle de Borchgrave for the exhibition “Un Mondo di Carta” (A World of Paper) in Venice (Italy), until November 30th, in the magical ambience of the Palazzo Fortuny.

The life, architecture and heritage of Andrea Palladio are the three topics of an important exhibition in the city of Vicenza (in the Italian region of Veneto): Palladio 500 years. The exhibit will move to London in February 2009 and then, in May, to the USA.

Towards the end of the month of October, someone in the world will by chance happen to find a paper airplane and to look around for the child who threw it, either to return it to its rightful owner or to tell him or her that “you don’t throw things”, based on the adult’s mood that day. But this adult, however, will not find anyone to blame or to smile at.