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Lucart expands its tissue business in Spain


Technologies & System for an undisclosed sum. The move is said will strengthen


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Lucart’s position in the Iberian peninsula. Known for consumer brands such as Tenderly, Tutto, Grazie Natural and Smile, Lucart finalised the deal with the formation of a new company, Lucart Tissue & Soap SLU. Commenting on the acquisition,


chief executive of Lucart Massimo Pasquini said: ‘This acquisition will allow us to continue to strengthen our presence in the tissue paper market, in line with the company’s strategic growth plan in European markets, serving all of our group’s business units.” CEL went into administration last


year and its assets were offered as part of the process.


eading producer of tissue products in Europe, Lucart has bought the assets of Spain’s CEL


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Three production facilities have


been acquired by Lucart in Spain, in the Basque region near Bilbao, which are used for producing and converting tissue paper and the production of personal care soaps and detergents in the away-from- home industry.


The acquisition also includes a de-inking plant, which will enable Lucart to exploit its expertise in high-quality recycled tissue paper, further consolidating its position as a leader in this field, it says.


Lucart’s production capacity


is now more than 350,000 tonnes per year, produced on 12 continuous machines and 62 converting lines. Its sales will total more than €450 million, with more than 1,500 employees in 10 production plants (five in Italy, one in France, one in Hungary and the three in Spain). Lucart is planning to invest more than €20 million over the next five years in the CEL operations. In resuming production, Lucart


DS Smith commits to research into paper cup recycling


Trials into improving coffee cup recycling in the UK started in January on behalf of the Paper Cup Recycling and Recovery Group (PCRRG). They are being carried out by DS Smith’s Kemsley Paper Mill at Sittingbourne in Kent where the feasibility of recycling used coffee cups will be analysed, using cups from existing waste collection infrastructures consistent with EN643 (The European List of Standard


January/February 2018


Grades of Paper and Board for Recycling), to make non-food contact papers. Until now, used coffee cups


have presented significant challenges to mainstream paper mills producing papers for the packaging industry. This is in part due to the plastics lining found in coffee cups, which present a problem in the high volume continuous pulping process. However DS Smith, as a member of the PCRRG, is


committed to providing more insight into the issues, as part of an industry drive to finding a sustainable recycling solution for coffee cups. Mathew Prosser, managing


director at DS Smith Recycling (UK), said: “DS Smith has already been actively involved with PCRRG members, such as Costa, on lab and pilot plant-scale recycling tests. I am pleased this work has developed to be able to undertake research on an


has confirmed 146 jobs in the three plants, with a business plan that expects: restarting two continuous machines at the Aranguren plant, for an overall capacity of 50,000 tonnes per year; gradually restarting and implementing the converting activity in the Gunes plant; and the development and strengthening of soap and detergent production activities in the Artziniega plant, which was never discontinued.


industrial scale that will provide the whole supply cycle with data on the recyclability of paper cups in mainstream packaging mills. “We look forward to sharing


the results of the trial with the PCRRG, and the wider industry, on its completion.” DS Smith operates nine paper mills in Europe, yearly producing around 2.8 million tonnes of corrugated case materials and specialist industrial products. Of those mills, Kemsley has an annual capacity of more than 800,000 tonnes and is the second largest recovered fibre-based paper operation in Europe (as well as the biggest in the UK).


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