The Belgian magazine Gondola, promoter of the international “INN’ Best Innovation of the Year” award together with Nielsen, GFK, Deloitte and other prestigious names in the world of business and retail, has this year awarded the brand Nalys with “Best Innovation of the Year –Tissue field”, while the Belgian magazine Distribution d’Aujourd’hui assigned the award for “Best Social and Humanitarian Activity of the Year” to Moltonel.

Constellation ushers in a new era in tissue converting: the revolutionary rewinder by Fabio Perini S.p.A. totally changes the concept of rewinding.

Giannetto Salotti (Lucca, 1918-2013) conjures up a rather distant world. A true, free-spirited artist who dedicated his entire life to expressing the world and the figures inhabiting it through his works, with an artistic and personal authority worthy of great Twentieth-century artists.

In 2014, sales of away-from-home (AFH) tissue in Latin America represented 32% of total tissue volume in the region and recorded a healthy 3% increase from the previous year.

AMS was born in 1988 in Switzerland, moving to Amsterdam in 2000, as a non-profit strategic-buying alliance on behalf of the main European retail chains.

One of the world’s largest paperboard producers for corrugated boxes, Lee & Man Paper entered the tissue business in China in 2014. It sees getting into consumer products as a good way to diversify its interests and build on its strengths. Bamboo pulp is a key part of the equation.

Fintissue S.r.l. is a family-owned company that has over 10,000 m² of production space available. The company was founded in 1992. It draws on owner and Managing Director Francesco Certo’s thirty years of experience in the tissue sector.

Many times and in various countries of the world, I have seen occupational safety treated as a matter of respecting the law even if corporate policies and codes of ethics would often say the opposite, i.e., that the safety of a company’s employees is one of the primary assets of that company.

Syktyvkar Tissue Group has just reaped the fruits of a development plan it has recently concluded and is anxious to start a new one. Lots of projects with a sole objective: to keep the pace with multinationals and conquer new market shares. 200 km away from Moscow, we met Alexander Kagan, Business Development Director of the new facilities in Rostov, who told us about recent goals attained and new plans for the future.

HengAn - In the Mandarin language, ‘Heng’ means forever and ‘An’ means safe or secure. So the company name of this very large producer of hygiene and tissue products in China means, more or less, “Forever Safe”. The idea is to give consumers a very reassuring and secure image of HengAn and its products.

Some time ago, an acquaintance of mine harshly criticized the term human resources, describing it as rather disrespectful of people. In my opinion, this term has a utilitarian value which is at the base of the business-oriented western culture that values the parties involved, acknowledging the deep interaction between them. If the business grows, the person grows as well and if the person grows then so does the business.

One major trend in recent years has been a rapid shift from conventional tissue products to ultra and premium quality products based on the use of TAD technology.

iT’s tissue 2015

Chance favors the prepared mind. Louis Pasteur (chemist and biologist) Take the best that exists and make it better. When it does not exist, design it. Henry Royce (entrepreneur) Genius might be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way. Charles Bukowski (writer)

As tissue makers, or anyone working anywhere in the long supply chain of tissue products from Fibers to Machines to Finished Products, we can all be justifiably proud of the business we are in.

Pino Guzzonato Born in 1941, Pino Guzzonato lives and works in Acquasaliente, on the hills of Tretto di Schio, in the province of Vicenza. In his home-studio, he has been experimenting with the most diverse art techniques for several years. But it is with paper that he has found an entente so deep as to allow him to translate matter into poetry.

Massimo Capaccioli, the scientist at the farthest reaches of the universe

For most people, food constitutes the major issue in the life of every day. Through the daily activities they perform to procure it, they express their ability to relate to the environment and with their peers, their way to give meaning to their existence, and a mirror of their culture.

The Yankee dryer is the heart of any tissue machine. When Yankee chatter and surface variations become a continuing mystery, after checking all the usual items, grinding and runnability problems may very well be due to the basic metallurgy of the cast-iron dryer shell.

Sales to the tissue market now account for almost half of Södra’s Cell’s total pulp deliveries. In a bid to consolidate its position as a global supplier to the tissue sector for the future, Södra has an ambitious strategy to expand capacity, optimize quality and improve energy and environmental efficiency even further.

The high quality of some paper products is directly correlated to the wet strength property of such materials. Based on the purpose of the final product – whether tissue paper, paper towel, paper for liquid packaging, and so on – wet strength agents must be added in different amounts to the papermaking process to achieve appropriate characteristics.

A color is not just a wavelength but also an idea, a thought. It is an ensemble of sensations and convictions born within a given culture. In the realm of modern architecture, green recalls the nature that modern cities have mistreated for years, giving priority to expanses of cement and asphalt over grass and trees, making this color more rare, precious and desirable.

Robert B. Tucker is a world-renowned Innovation Expert. For nearly 30 years, he has studied a critical question: How do companies sustain success?

Virtual and Augmented Reality constitute the bases for the integrated design of the Factory of the Future. Competitiveness among manufacturing companies also passes through the introduction of advanced instruments for the representation of knowledge and through simulation.

A revolutionary product arrives on the shelves of the Coop supermarket chain.

The Belgian magazine Gondola, promoter of the international “INN’ Best Innovation of the Year” award together with Nielsen, GFK, Deloitte and other prestigious names in the world of business and retail, has this year awarded the brand Nalys with “Best Innovation of the Year –Tissue field”, while the Belgian magazine Distribution d’Aujourd’hui assigned the award for “Best Social and Humanitarian Activity of the Year” to Moltonel.

Lucart Group’s CEO Massimo Pasquini illustrates the details of the Sustainable Mobility Project, championed and implemented by the company as a concrete action for the development of alternative and effective solutions to road transport.

Cartamela, registered trademark by Roto-Cart, is the first paper produced using pure cellulose enriched with waste coming from apple processing. Once dried, these residues are integrated: a composition unique on the market.

Anyone who has ever heard of LEGO® immediately thinks of the popular building bricks. But perhaps not everybody knows that behind this successful invention there are many other valid products and a century-old history punctuated by success stories and failures, too. http://bit.ly/pjl45-thelegostory

Paper Art artist Federica Ricotti uses “paper pulp” to create sculptures where light and music form an integral part of the work. She holds performances and exhibitions mainly in Italy, Switzerland and Brazil. In 2005 she won the special “Jardin” prize and in 2011 First Prize at the Triennale Internazionale Du Papier, Musée de Val Charmey, Swizerland.