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Essity and Voith partner to develop concept for sustainable tissue production

Essity has entered an exclusive partnership with Voith to develop a tissue-making process it said will reduce energy and CO2 emissions while cutting water consumption by up to 95%. The partnership will include collaborating “in the development of a new disruptive concept” that Essity said revolutionizes and rethinks tissue manufacturing. Compared to conventional paper making […]

Essity Initiates Strategic Review of Its Ownership of Vinda and Consumer Tissue Private Label Europe Business

Essity today announced a decision to initiate a strategic review of the company’s ownership of the Asian hygiene company Vinda International Holdings Ltd and the Consumer Tissue Private Label Europe business with the aim of reducing Consumer Tissue’s share of the company’s total sales. The strategic review includes exploring different options and may result in […]

Tissue World returns to Europe for the first time in four years

Tissue World returns to Europe for the first time in four years at new venue Messe Düsseldorf. Taking place from Tuesday 28 March to Thursday 30 March, the event will reconnect the global tissue industry for the first time in Europe since Covid. There is still time to secure a ticket to Europe’s largest tissue […]

Voith and Essity develop groundbreaking concept for sustainable paper production

Saving CO2 emissions and energy are among the most important fields of action of our time. In recognition of this fact, Voith has developed a completely new, disruptive concept that allows CO2 neutral paper production. Moreover, the groundbreaking concept reduces fresh water consumption by up to 95 percent as well as energy consumption by up […]

Essity to produce tissue in a CO2-free production process using renewable hydrogen

Hygiene and health company Essity has made another breakthrough on its journey to net-zero emissions by 2050. In a recently concluded pilot, Essity became the first company in the industry to produce tissue in a CO2 emission-free production process using renewable hydrogen at its production facility in Mainz-Kostheim, Germany. Essity initiated the pilot for CO2-free […]

UK toilet roll producer to invest in new paper recycling plant

New investment UK toilet roll maker Essity has announced plans to construct a new paper recycling plant, aiming to replace the company’s 50-year-old recycling factory.   Under the plan, the manufacturer is to allocate some £30 million  (US$36.5 million) to the project, according to the information obtained by local news site Business-live.co.uk.   Paul Oliver, the […]

First Runtech EP turbo blower in New Zealand started up at Essity AustralAsia

Runtech Systems-supplied vacuum system rebuild has been successfully started up at Essity AustralAsia (formerly Asaleo Care), New Zealand. “This is an exciting project for our site. Our previous vacuum system was oversized, inefficient and had reached the end of its life. The new Runtech system has reduced our power consumption by over 700kW and we […]

Essity acquires advanced wound care company in US

Hygiene and health company Essity has acquired the company Hydrofera. The company offers technology and products within advanced wound care. The purchase price amounts to USD 116m (approximately SEK 1.1bn) with a potential additional earnout amount of USD 15m (approximately SEK 137m) on a cash and debt free basis. The acquisition supports Essity’s strategic priority […]

Essity launches green hydrogen pilot at its Mainz-Kostheim tissue plant

Hygiene and health company Essity is launching a pilot project to run a paper machine CO2-free with green hydrogen in the company’s production facility in Mainz-Kostheim, Germany. For this purpose, natural gas is successively replaced by green hydrogen on the site’s largest paper machine during ongoing production. The project is the first of this magnitude […]

Essity invests in improved recycling of food and beverage cartons in France

Global hygiene and health company Essity invests approximately EUR 11m (approximately SEK 110m) in its Hondouville mill in France, allowing to extract 98% of paper fibers contained in food and beverage cartons. Since 2008, Essity’s Hondouville mill has been the leading recycler in France of food and beverage cartons, currently recycling more than 63% of […]