Many newspapers and magazines have closed shop in these last few months. Writing about digital communication on a six-monthly magazine is certainly risky: by the time you read these words, the world of printed newspapers may be completely changed forever! But we don't think this will happen...

"The expression the devil is in the details refers to a catch or mysterious element hidden in the details."

"Mito e Bellezza" (Myth and Beauty). History told through luxury. 80 precious scarves of the famous French Maison, on show in Lucca and, in 2011, in Paris.

Florida-based Cellynne has integrated into papermaking and grown according to its well-planned strategy. At the same time, the guys behind it seem to be enjoying themselves.

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises. (Demosthenes)

The region of Marmara in the north-west side of Turkey and partly in Europe is the smallest region in the country after Anatolia, which is located in the south-east.

Tissue products - toilet paper, tissues, kitchen towels and paper tableware - account for 53% of the US$27 billion North American disposable paper products market. Combined, the value sales of the four categories exceeded US$15 billion in 2008, growing by 5% in value.

December 2009 marked the entry into force of the new Machinery Directive 2006/42/CE within the EU, through implementation on national level. It is a substantial novelty for machine manufacturers that is entwined with the modifications introduced by social directives on machine safety, and more explicitly of all equipment used for work, that constitutes a wider ensemble which also includes machines.

The World is at long last changing. We are now serious about protecting the Earth and future generations. Green is the color of the next decades and hopefully something will really be done to protect the future of our children and humanity as a whole.

Many things have changed since Heinrich Langhammer founded W+D-Langhammer in 1971. But one thing hasn't: the commitment provide modular, trailblazing packaging solutions - transport and palletizing solutions in particular - for industries as diverse as tissue, paper, beverages or the chemical and health care sectors.

The Paper District of Lucca and surrounding areas is the cradle of know-how and technology for paper production and converting machinery and processes.

INTERVIEW to Krishna Vaswani

A strength boosting additive based on hemicelluloses, derived from renewable agricultural products, can benefit tissue makers in numerous ways, claims Cargill.

Life Cycle Assessment. A rigorous scientific study, commissioned by Kimberly-Clark but carried out by independent LCA experts, has analyzed the relative environmental impact of primary versus secondary fiber in K-C operations producing tissue products. The result: each has benefits and drawbacks, with no clear winner for K-C marketed tissue products.

Aiming to build truly Pan-European brands, SCA is streamlining its European consumer tissue brand portfolio based on two distinct end uses, Personal Hygiene (PH) and Object Hygiene (OH). And the major focus for the future will be on two main consumer brands: ‘Plenty' for household towel and ‘Tempo' for toilet, hankies and facial tissue.

A unique partnership between Procter & Gamble's Bounty household towel and a new children's Creative Studio called ‘Make-A-Messterpiece' is combining messy creativity with stimulating learning.

The World Business Forum, organized by HSM every year, represents a window on our world.

New York City, ever since it was called New Amsterdam in 1624, has the onus of being one of the most recent cities in the world. New York is consistently recent, modern; indeed, contemporary.

Paper can be folded, embroidered, braided, sewn, sponged, plisséd, punched, recycled, glued, painted with water colors... But as jewellery, paper - a material considered impartial - takes on joyous and unexpected forms and décors.

The magic of paper lies in its adaptability. Sometimes, a mere fold is sufficient to transform a simple sheet of paper into a work of art.