Tissue paper
Tissue paper (from English tissue , cellulose; also tissue paper or paper towel ) is an absorbent, finely creped hygiene paper made from cellulose . It is mostly used in layers for toilet paper , kitchen paper , paper napkins and paper tissues .
history
Tissue paper was first made by William Corbin in the research and development department of Brown in Berlin, New Hampshire . By 1922 the company had perfected the product and began mass production in Berlin on the Gorham city limits , New Hampshire . The product was then sold under the name Nibroc paper towels . Nibroc is an anagram and, read backwards, means Corbin, the inventor's last name.
Manufacturing
Tissue paper is manufactured on special paper machines . This does not involve several drying cylinders (as is the case with conventional paper machines), but a mostly 4.5–5 m large crepe cylinder. This is enclosed by two drying hoods, in which the paper web is dried within hundredths of a second. This happens at a temperature of around 460 ° C.
The weight per unit area of tissue paper is usually in the range from 15 to 30 g / m², but can also assume lower values of up to 5 g / m². The determination of the mass per unit area of tissue paper is not trivial because of the creped surface and is regulated in the DIN standard DIN EN ISO 12625-6.
The largest tissue manufacturers
The world's largest manufacturers of tissue paper include SCA from Sweden and Kimberly-Clark from the USA.
| Companies | country | Production volume in t |
|---|---|---|
| Svenska Cellulosa Aktiebolaget (SCA) |
 Sweden
|
1,700,000 |
Sofidel Group (with LPC Group )
|
 Italy
|
940,000 |
| Georgia-Pacific |
 United States
|
850,000 |
| Kimberly-Clark |
United States
|
770,000 |
| Metsä Tissue |
 Finland
|
600,000 |
| Wepa |
 Germany
|
600,000 |
| Industrie Cartarie Tronchetti (ICT Group) |
Italy
|
540,000 |
| Cartiera Lucchese Group (Lucart Group) |
Italy
|
190,000 |
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Case No COMP / M.2097 - SCA / Metsä Tissue (PDF; 193 kB). Commission Decision of 31.01.2001 declaring a concentration to be incompatible with the common market and the functioning of the EEA Agreement. EU commission
- ↑ It felt like death . Archived from the original on April 26, 2012. Retrieved December 30, 2011.
- ↑ Once Upon A Berlin Time . Archived from the original on September 26, 2013. Retrieved December 30, 2011.
- ↑ Beginnings of the Cascade Paper Mill . Archived from the original on April 21, 2012. Retrieved December 30, 2011.
- ↑ Sabit Adanur: Paper Machine Clothing , edited by Asten Inc. CRC Press, 1997, ISBN 1-56676-544-7 , pp. 134-135.
- ↑ Arthur Strecker: Comment on prepackaging law , loose-leaf edition. Behr's Verlag, 1998, ISBN 3-86022-315-1 , pp. 387/21.
