French tissue manufacturer Global Hygiène has recently officially inaugurated a converting plant near Bordeaux in Southwestern France, according to industry website Euwid.
The company acquired the facility from Belgian Etex Group, which previously manufactured plasterboard there.
A spokesperson for the Papeterie de la Lune factory tells Euwid that the plant currently has a converting line with a capacity of around 18,000 tonnes per year. The factory produces paper towels and toilet paper.
However, the company has bigger plans for the factory, which will become an integrated plant in the future. Global Hygiène is also planning to install a paper machine at the site. Its capacity has not yet been determined, but is expected to amount to 30,000 tonnes of tissue paper, for the production of towels and toilet paper.
No start-up date for that machine has been communicated. The tissue machine has not been ordered either, but “planning is underway.”
In the long term, the company aims to build another converting line.
Global Hygiène operates a total of four factories in France. Only one of these manufactures tissue paper, the others convert tissue paper into finished hygiene products.