INDEVCO Paper Making Companies to Exhibit Jumbo Tissue Rolls at Tissue World New Orleans 2016

During Tissue World New Orleans 2016, INDEVCO Paper Making representatives will meet with customers and prospects to discuss virgin and recycled jumbo tissue needs for converting into:

• Toilet Tissue: developed to provide bulky products with a soft texture
• Facial Tissue: developed to reach the highest level of softness
• Towel Tissue: developed to ensure better absorbency and higher wet strength qualities
• Napkin Tissue: developed to optimize our customers printing quality ensuring attractive designs and graphics

INDEVCO Paper Making tissue mills in Egypt, Interstate Paper Industries, and Lebanon, Unipak Tissue Mill engage in sustainability across all paper making processes, in line with Tissue World New Orleans 2016 theme “Beyond sustainability – leading a culture of innovation and responsible production”.

INDEVCO Paper Making: Sustainable Tissue Mills

Raw Materials & Certifications:

INDEVCO Paper Making tissue mills in Egypt and Lebanon manufacture recycled jumbo tissue rolls by using recovered paper. Both tissue mills are FSC & PEFC certified, ensuring that all paper materials come from sustainable forests.

Energy Management:

Within the plant, Unipak Tissue Mill installed new machinery that are more power efficient and conserve unneeded energy use. In 2011, Unipak Tissue Mill received the Best Energy Efficiency award from Lebanon Opportunities National Achievement Awards for Industry.

Water management:

At the plant in Egypt, Interstate Paper Industries launched an ongoing project to reduce fresh water consumption by 55 %.

Emissions management:

Unipak Tissue Mill replaced a fossil fuel boiler with an eco-friendly biomass boiler that burns olive oil husks and reduces harmful CO2 emissions, as well as installed cogeneration units on its power generators to produce steam.

About INDEVCO Paper Making

INDEVCO Paper Making, a division of INDEVCO Group, operates four manufacturing companies in Lebanon, Egypt, and the U.S., serving tissue converters and corrugated board producers in Africa, Europe, Asia, North and South America.

Tissue mills, Interstate Paper Industries in Egypt and Unipak Tissue Mill in Lebanon, manufacture 88,000 MT/year of virgin and recycled tissue parent reels. Paper plants, Interstate Paper and United Corrstack in the U.S., manufacture 500,000 MT/year of recycled mediums and kraft linerboards for corrugated converting manufacturers.