On December 19, 2015, A.Celli Paper successfully concluded the start-up of the new high-speed Tissue Machine with a production capacity of 34,000 tons per year (110 tons per day) at Metalicplas (part of the Pehart Tec Group).

OMET is pleased to announce the accomplishment of the 750 installations of tissue converting machines globally since its foundation in 1963. It is the most evident result of OMET’s continuous search for innovation and of the trust customers all over the world tribute to a true market leader in the manufacturing of tissue converting machines.

The Canadian company Norbord recently announced that its Board of Directors has approved a $135 million (£95 million) investment to modernize and expand its OSB mill in Inverness, Scotland, nearly doubling its capacity to 720 million square feet (MMsf) (3/8-inch basis) (640,000 cubic metres).  

(News from RISI) – Suzano Pulp and Paper has signed a $58 million order for two tissue paper machines (PM) to be installed at the company’s Mucuri and Imperatriz mills in northeast Brazil.

Each PM will have capacity to produce 60,000tpy and Suzano expects to start construction in May.

Tissue production is expected to start-up at Imperatriz in the third quarter of 2017 and at Mucuri in the fourth quarter of the same year.

Both mills will produce jumbo rolls to be supplied to toilet paper converters in the northeast region of Brazil.

(News from RISI) – Brazil’s Suzano has announced a Real425 million investment in two tissue paper machines, each with capacity to produce 60,000tpy.

One PM will be installed at its Mucuri plant and the other one at the Imperatriz unit – both will produce jumbo rolls to be supplied to toilet paper converters in the northeast region of Brazil. Suzano CEO Walter Schalka said: “We want to sell jumbo rolls to national and international clients that want to operate in northeast Brazil, then they will be able to sell toilet paper wherever they want. This way, we’ll avoid the migration of jumbo rolls from southeast to northeast Brazil, which has a high cost.”

The executive added that Suzano has also obtained permit to convert the paper produced at its new tissue machines, but it doesn’t have plans to do it in the short term. The company plans to start up the Imperatriz tissue PM at the end of the third quarter of 2017 and the Mucuri PM at the fourth quarter of 2017.