Essity is investing in enhanced efficiency in the company´s site in Kawerau, New Zealand, including the world’s first tissue machine running a fully geothermal steam drying process. Together with a reduction in pulp consumption, reduced waste and elimination of the burning of natural gas on the machine, the improvements will contribute to a reduction of carbon emissions by 23 percent from the Kawerau site.

“We´re setting new industry standards when it comes to sustainable tissue production. Investing in the world’s first tissue machine running a fully geothermal steam process is groundbreaking. By reducing our carbon emissions, we can offer our customers and consumers more climate friendly products”, says Magnus Groth, President and CEO, Essity.

The Kawerau site has served New Zealand’s businesses through its TORK products and New Zealand households with well-known brands such as Purex, Sorbent and Handee for over 65 years. Essity has 326 employees in New Zealand, including over 200 in Kawerau.  

Essity is proud to lead the industry for environmental and social sustainability performance across its operations in Australasia. Improvements include sustainable packaging supporting the Australian National Packaging Targets, certified sustainable fiber sources, ethical supply chains, and reducing manufacturing waste and water use.

The investment of approximately AUD 15m (approximately SEK 95m) is partly funded through the Government Investment in Decarbonizing Industry (GIDI) Fund, administered by EECA (Energy Efficiency and Conservation Authority) in New Zealand.

The production of tissue from geothermal steam is part of Essity’s work to use less energy and achieve net zero emissions by 2050.

Essity is a leading global hygiene and health company. We are dedicated to improving well-being through our products and services. Sales are conducted in approximately 150 countries under the leading global brands TENA and Tork, and other strong brands, such as JOBST, Leukoplast, Libero, Libresse, Lotus, Nosotras, Saba, Tempo, Vinda and Zewa. Essity has about 46,000 employees. Net sales in 2020 amounted to approximately SEK 122bn (EUR 11.6bn). The company’s headquarters is located in Stockholm, Sweden, and Essity is listed on Nasdaq Stockholm. Essity breaks barriers to well-being and contributes to a healthy, sustainable and circular society. More information at www.essity.com.

Walk into the absorbent hygiene section of your local pharmacy or grocery store and you’ll see our Engineered Absorbent Materials (EAM) airlaid products everywhere.

“We produce absorbent cores for many hygiene products including diapers, adult incontinence products, sanitary napkins and bed pads used in hospitals and nursing homes,” says EAM facility manager Kim Sumner.

EAM is poised for continued growth and success for many years to come thanks to an expansion project announced earlier this year that will add a large-scale airlaid nonwovens production line to the Jesup, Ga.–based facility. When complete in 2022, the expansion will make Domtar the second-largest airlaid supplier in the United States and third-largest in the world.

Airlaid is a nonwoven material that falls between paper and textiles, according to Lori Venn, vice president of airlaid sales and marketing. Airlaid nonwoven products are widely used in today’s absorbent hygiene products because of their superior absorption properties.

“The fibers are made from fluff pulp, but they’re laid on top of each other instead of woven together,” she says. “And they’re bonded together using air instead of water, like in traditional paper and pulp making.”

Since opening in 1998, EAM has grown into a 132,000 square-foot facility with five production lines.

“We started with a handful of suppliers,” says Sumner. “Today we’re a large global company with 50 percent of our products shipped outside the United States.”

Lewis Fix, Domtar vice president, commercial pulp and airlaid, says EAM’s expansion project is an integral part of our long-term strategy to become a leading nonwovens provider.

“We are growing our position as a leading global absorbent materials and technology business that offers our customers both fluff pulp and airlaid nonwoven materials,” he says. “Combining EAM’s expertise with our world-class fluff pulp business will allow us to deliver value to our customers, and Domtar, for many years to come.”

EAM is widely known throughout the industry for its high-quality and innovative products, which are designed and tested by team of scientists and engineers in the facility’s state-of-the-art research complex.

“Our innovation is known worldwide,” says Venn. “Others have tried to copy it, but haven’t figured out how to do it.”

Watch this video to learn more about EAM.

Valmet will supply a complete tissue production line including stock preparation, automation system and a Focus rewinder to Arkhbum Tissue Group LLC. The new Advantage DCT 200 tissue line will be installed at the company’s mill in Vorsino industrial park, Kaluga region in Russia. The start-up is planned for the first quarter of 2023.

The order is included in Valmet’s orders received of the third quarter 2021. The value of the order will not be disclosed. However, a project of this size and scope is typically valued at around EUR 20-40 million. 

The new tissue production line from Valmet is part of Arkhbum Tissue Group’s development project aimed at reaching a total capacity of 210 thousand tons of high-quality tissue and towel products made from own pulp.

“We are happy to receive this prestigious order and excited to continue the journey with Arkhbum Tissue Group. Our collaboration began with the supply of a Focus Reelite rewinder for their first tissue line and now we will continue with the supply of the complete line. The Advantage DCT200 is a reliable and highly efficient technology, and we are convinced it will contribute to the success of Arkhbum Tissue Group in a competitive market,” says Jan Erikson, Vice President Sales, Tissue Mills business unit, Paper business line, Valmet.

Valmet will supply a complete tissue production line including stock preparation, automation system and a Focus rewinder to Arkhbum Tissue Group LLC.

Technical information

The new tissue machine TM2 will have a width of 5.6 m and a design speed of 2,000 m/min. It will add 70.000 tons a year of high-quality napkin, toilet, and towel grades to Arkhbum’s current production. The raw material to be used in the tissue production will be virgin fiber from the owner’s own pulp mill. The new production line is optimized to save energy and to enhance the quality of the final product.

Valmet’s scope of delivery will comprise of a complete tissue production line including stock preparation systems and a Valmet Advantage DCT 200 HS tissue machine. The machine will be equipped with an OptiFlo TIS II headbox, the Advantage ViscoNip press combined with Advantage ReDry and a steel Yankee dryer. It also features other Advantage tissue technology including an AirCap Heli hood, WetDust dust system and a SoftReel, and complete clothing packages with Valmet Forming Fabric GMs, Valmet Press Felts STMs and Valmet Black Belt R ViscoNip belts. The stock preparation line will consist of OptiSlush pulpers, OptiFiner conical refiners, Valmet DX protection screens and OptiScreen machine screens. In addition, a Focus Reelite R25 ENS rewinder as well as a roll handling system will be installed.

Furthermore, the delivery will include a Valmet DNA Automation System with process controls, machine controls and drive controls. Valmet IQ Quality Control System (QCS) with IQ Fiber sensor, MD Controls and IQ Dilution profiler with CD Control ensure high end-product quality.

Project execution services like complete engineering, shipping, installation supervision, training, start-up and commissioning are also included in the delivery.

Information about Arkhbum Tissue Group

Arkhbum Tissue Group is a subsidiary of Arkhangelsk Pulp and Paper Mill (APPM) that is part of Austrian Pulp Mill Holding Gmbh. APPM is one of the European leaders in containerboard and pulp production. Arkhbum Tissue group provides its own brand Soffione products to consumers in Russia, CIS countries and Europe.

Valmet is the leading global developer and supplier of process technologies, automation and services for the pulp, paper and energy industries. We aim to become the global champion in serving our customers. 

Valmet's strong technology offering includes pulp mills, tissue, board and paper production lines, as well as power plants for bioenergy production. Our advanced services and automation solutions improve the reliability and performance of our customers' processes and enhance the effective utilization of raw materials and energy.  

Valmet's net sales in 2020 were approximately EUR 3.7 billion. Our 14,000 professionals around the world work close to our customers and are committed to moving our customers' performance forward - every day. Valmet's head office is in Espoo, Finland and its shares are listed on the Nasdaq Helsinki.  

Read more www.valmet.com

Metsä Group launches a programme to be implemented between 2021 and 2030 to provide financial contributions and expertise to support regionally relevant and effective development projects that improve biodiversity and the state of waters in Finland.

These projects, which will be implemented outside commercial forests, may relate, for example, to bird waters and wetlands, watercourse routes, small waters and riparian habitats, pollinator habitats or new water protection methods.

"One of Metsä Group's strategic sustainability targets is to safeguard biodiversity. We are implementing our ecological sustainability programme in commercial forests to safeguard forest biodiversity. With our new nature management programme, we want to play a role in improving the state of nature in Finland also outside the commercial forests. Our investments, which will amount to millions of euros during the programme, have no financial return expectations," says Ilkka Hämälä, President and CEO of Metsä Group.

The selection of projects will be made every six months. The first decisions will be made in December 2021, with the application period ending at the end of November 2021. Applications are to be sent by e-mail to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. In the project evaluation, Metsä Group cooperates with the Finnish Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry and Ministry of Environment, the Finnish Innovation Fund Sitra, University of Eastern Finland and the Central Union of Agricultural Producers MTK.

"We support projects outside commercial forests that have a clearly verifiable impact on improving the state of nature. There are many different means and targets. I hope that our programme will attract wide interest and encourage also completely new ideas, and that we will have a large number of different projects to evaluate," continues Ilkka Hämälä.

Metsä Group
www.metsagroup.com

Metsä Group is leading the way in advancing the bioeconomy. We invest in growth, bioproduct development and a fossil free future. The raw material for our products is renewable wood from sustainably managed northern forests. We focus on the growth sectors of the forest industry: wood supply and forest services, wood products, pulp, fresh fibre paperboards, as well as tissue and greaseproof papers.

Metsä Group’s annual sales amount to approximately EUR 5.5 billion, and we have around 9,200 employees in 30 countries. Our international Group has its roots in the Finnish forests: our parent company is Metsäliitto Cooperative which is owned by 100,000 forest owners. 

James Wreath has been appointed Vice President Sales North America at Körber Business Area Tissue and will report directly to the President North America, Pete Augustine. Wreath joined the Körber Business Area Tissue at the beginning of 2020 as Vice President of Business Innovation working on digital integration and progressive business models, and will now also be responsible of sales.

James Wreath“Our customer community has been, and will be, experiencing some very unique challenges as they move forward. As a sales team, we will take an intentional, business-minded approach when developing relationships. Becoming our customers’ trusted advisor is our over-arching goal. We believe having intentional business discussions, not buying discussions, will get us there,” commented Wreath.

After graduating from the University of Wisconsin – Stevens Point with a Computer Information Systems and Business Administration degree, Wreath began a transition into technical consultative sales. With over 20 years of sales and sales management experience in both established, and start-up companies, he brings a progressive and intentional approach to creating great experiences for our customers as well as our Körber teammates.

Körber Business Area Tissue

At Körber, our ultimate goal is to empower our customers’ ongoing success. We are the only truly integrated and global provider of advanced solutions for the tissue business. We offer the industry’s most comprehensive portfolio of tissue technology to support customers across the entire value chain — from roll to fold, from converting to packaging. Our advanced, automated, and easy-to-use integrated solutions are a fundamental asset to shape the success in tissue, take our customers operations to the next level, and strengthen their overall financial performance while optimizing their total cost of ownership.

About Körber

We are Körber – an international technology group with about 10,000 employees, more than 100 locations worldwide and a common goal: We turn entrepreneurial thinking into customer success and shape the technological change. In the Business Areas Digital, Pharma, Supply Chain, Tissue and Tobacco, we offer products, solutions and services that inspire. We act fast to customer needs, we execute ideas seamlessly, and with our innovations we create added value for our customers. In doing so, we are increasingly building on ecosystems that solve the challenges of today and tomorrow. Körber AG is the holding company of the Körber Group.

A.Celli Paper launched, with an exclusive online presentation, their new A.Celli iDEAL® Evo-Lock®, the next evolution of the Yankee Dryers with forged shell.

Mr. Clive Butler, Yankee Dryer Production Manager, and Mr. Fabrizio Tonello, A.Celli Paper Technical Director, were given the responsibility and honour to present new cylinder, characterized by an innovative head-to-shell connection system that doesn’t require welds or bolts.

Thanks to this solution and to the use of a forged shell, the A.Celli Evo-Lock® allows to minimize the number of inspection activities required and to improve runnability on sheet edges, with consequent positive implications on the efficiency of the machine. Moreover, the special design of the Evo-Lock® allows to reduce the overall width of the shell, making it possible to dry a larger format sheet with the same existing machine gauge.

In regards to the achieved result, with the new A.Celli Yankee Dryer companies can expect to reduce by 94% the recommended inspection activities in the first 12 years compared to a traditional welded Yankee, without any drawbacks in terms of quality of the Tissue paper obtained, reliability and operator safety.

“Evolock represents A.Celli attitude to the continuous innovation, which springs out when Science and Technology meet Creativity and Experience” said Mr. Fabrizio Tonello, A.Celli Paper Technical Director.

The new A.Celli Evo-Lock® Yankee Dryer is already available for order as a single component or as a part of our cutting-edge iDEAL® Turnkey Tissue Plants, and its goal is to consolidate A.Celli Paper’s position as leading innovator in the Tissue paper industry.

Toscotec will be at MIAC 2021 Booth 109 to showcase world-class energy-efficient technology including customized solutions for turnkey tissue operations and paper machine’s technological rebuilds. 

On October 13^th, at 3.50 pm in the first session of MIAC Tissue Conference, Toscotec Business Development Director Massimiliano Corsini will present “OPTIMA rewinder line ensures quality and top winding efficiency.”

At its headquarters in Lucca, just a few kilometres away from MIAC Exhibition Center, Toscotec will also showcase its advanced double-width AHEAD tissue machines and OPTIMA slitter rewinders fully pre-assembled before delivery. 

Contacts to book an appointment: 
Marco Dalle Piagge, Sales Director, Tissue division, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Enrico Fazio, Sales Director, Paper & Board division, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. 

Mondi, global leader in packaging and paper, has been chosenby the Jane Goodall Institute Austria as the supplier for the first issue of their new annual magazine Be inspired using Mondi's premium recycled paper brand NAUTILUS®.

• The newly launched annual magazineof Jane Goodall InstituteAustria will beprinted on NAUTILUS® Classic made from 100% recycledpaper
• The partnership is based on the common sustainability aspirations and values of Mondi, NAUTILUS® and the Jane Goodall Institute

“By inspiring people to conserve the natural world we all share, we improve the lives of people, animals and the environment.Our partners understand the importance to act sustainable and are equally ambitious to protect natural resources in their field”, says Dr. Jane Goodall, scientist and founder of the Jane Goodall Institute.

“When choosing our partners, it is important to us that they share our sustainability philosophy and aspirations.Mondi puts great efforts into recycling paper and a circular economy. NAUTILUS® mission “For the love of nature”is an excellent fit with the values of the Jane Goodall Institute”, says Doris Schreyvogel, Managing Director of the Jane Goodall Institute Austria.

Founded in 2013, the Jane Goodall Institute Austria is part of the Jane Goodall Institutes network, a global community conservation organisation that advances the vision and work of Dr.Jane Goodall focusing on the protection of chimpanzees, reforestation and education.

The new annual magazine will be presented to the public on 30 September 2021 at a special launch event in Vienna, Austria. The magazine gives an overview of the projects of the Institute showcasing the holistic approach of its work.

“At Mondi we developed an ambitiousaction plan,MAP2030, where we focuson climate resilience through our forests and operations for the future of the planet. Targets include reducing our greenhouse gas emissions in line with science-based targets,maintaining zero deforestation in our wood supply and safeguarding biodiversity and water in our operations and beyond.This ambition fits very well with the mission the Jane Goodall Institute pursues and we are honoured to have been selected as a supplier with our premium recycled paper brand NAUTILUS®”, explains Johannes Klumpp, Marketing & Sales Director Uncoated Fine Paper at Mondi.

With its authentic recycled shade and the two grammages of 200 g/m2and 120 g/m2NAUTILUS® Classic perfectly meets the technical requirements of the magazine. NAUTILUS® Classic is made from 100% post-consumer recycled paper and awarded with certification schemes such as FSCTM Recycled, Blue Angel and EU Ecolabel.

NAUTILUS® not only offers a diverse portfolio of recycled papers in a wide range of grammages and formats, but it also delivers top quality in every sheet. The NAUTILUS® product family provides premium quality recycled papers that help you to look after the environment and reinforce your image as a sustainable company. For more information around NAUTILUS® visit www.mymondi.net/nautilus For information on our sustainability approach in our uncoated fine paper business please visit https://www.mymondi.net/ufp/en/sustainability

About Mondi Uncoated Fine Paper

Uncoated Fine Paperis a business unit of Mondi Group. In six operating sites in Austria, Slovakia, Russia, and South Africa, Mondi Uncoated Fine Paper produces pulp and environmentally sound office and professional printing papers tailored to the latest professional digitaland offset print technologies. The company complies with the strictest international certification standards to support sustainable production processes through the responsible management of forest, water and air resources. All Mondi uncoated fine papers belong to the Green Range of papers that are FSC™ or PEFC™ certified, 100% recycled or bleached entirely without chlorine. Its renowned brands such as Color Copy, PERGRAPHICA®, NAUTILUS®, NEUJET®, IQ, MAESTRO®, BIO TOP 3®, DNS®, Snegurochka or ROTATRIM are used in office environments on laser or inkjet printers and by professional printers on digital or offset presses to create brochures, transactional material, folders, invitations, business cards, letterheads or other high-impact communication. Converters appreciate the excellent printability and smooth handling of Mondi’s professional printing papers.

About Mondi

Mondi is a global leader in packaging and paper, contributing to a better world by making innovative packaging and paper solutions that are sustainable by design. Our business is integrated across the value chain –from managing forests and producing pulp,paper and plastic films, to developing and manufacturing effective industrial and consumer packaging solutions. Sustainability is at the centre of our strategy and intrinsic in the way we do business. We lead the industry with our customer-centric approach, EcoSolutions, where we ask the right questions to find the most sustainable solution. In 2020, Mondi had revenues of €6.66 billion and underlying EBITDA of €1.35 billion.Mondi has a premium listing on the London Stock Exchange (MNDI), and a secondary listing on the JSE Limited (MNP). Mondi is a FTSE 100 constituent, and has been included in the FTSE4Good Index Series since 2008 and the FTSE/JSE Responsible Investment Index Series since 2007.

Metsä Tissue, the tissue paper business of the forest industry group Metsä Group, is planning to invest in a new tissue mill in the UK. The plan consists of 240 000 tons of tissue paper production capacity, built in several phases during the upcoming decade. The plans are part of the company’s Future Mill programme to drive world class environmental performance in tissue production.

The production of the planned UK mill would be based on using sustainable fresh fibre pulp, and the first phase of the investment would be ready during 2025 to serve the professional and consumer tissue markets in the UK and Ireland.

”Over the past couple of years, we have been developing a Future Mill concept in relation to our planned tissue mill expansion in Mariestad, Sweden. Our studies show that we will be able to utilize more efficient and better technology than today, which will make us more competitive and more environmentally efficient. We see great opportunities for growth in the UK market and are planning to supply the market locally based on our Future Mill concept ”, says Esa Kaikkonen, CEO, Metsä Tissue.

The mill concept is planned to be based on best available technologies, with a world class environmental performance. As the next step, the location of the mill is planned to be selected during the first half of 2022. The locations currently under investigation are Newark and Hull.

Metsä Tissue
www.metsatissue.com

Metsä Tissue creates a cleaner everyday life. We are one of the leading tissue paper suppliers in Europe to households and professionals and one of the leading greaseproof paper suppliers globally.

Our brands are Lambi, Serla, Mola, Tento, Katrin and SAGA. With production units in five countries, we employ around 2,500 people. In 2020, our sales totalled EUR 1 billion. Metsä Tissue is part of Metsä Group.

Metsä Group

www.metsagroup.com

Metsä Group is leading the way in advancing the bioeconomy. We invest in growth, bioproduct development and a fossil free future. The raw material for our products is renewable wood from sustainably managed northern forests. We focus on the growth sectors of the forest industry: wood supply and forest services, wood products, pulp, fresh fibre paperboards, as well as tissue and greaseproof papers.

Metsä Group’s annual sales amount to approximately EUR 5.5 billion, and we have around 9,200 employees in 30 countries. Our international Group has its roots in the Finnish forests: our parent company is Metsäliitto Cooperative which is owned by 100,000 forest owners.