Solutions

Innovation meets expertise in every piece of Kӧrber converting, packaging, and folding equipment, for the tissue business. Industry-leading technologies and the support teams to maximize their efficiencies, help our partners keep pace with emerging trends, overcome challenges, and redefine the future of tissue with effective, efficient solutions that do the same.

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Equipment Showcase

The place to find quick delivery tissue converting, packaging, and folded equipment solutions that combine advanced technologies and expert support.

Select4U

The marketplace for trusted pre-owned converting and packaging machines, chosen by our industry experts and ready to provide fast restarts in plants worldwide.

Roll

Whether upgrading equipment or adding rolled tissue products to your line to meet demand, the partnership you choose is as important as the machinery. Körber is the trusted name in tissue manufacturing innovation. Our rewinders/winders, log saws, and advanced, custom technologies are designed to solve even the toughest production challenges while enhancing operational efficiency, productivity, and profitability.

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Away from Home (AFH)

Fold

Fold napkins and interfold products continue to gain global popularity and dominate brand expansion. Trusted suppliers are finding it practical and profitable to add Körber converting and packaging equipment that makes it possible to offer folded product services that meet current and anticipated needs.

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Customer Service

Helping our partners succeed doesn’t end at the production line. We proactively lean into training, technical support, data analysis, spare parts provision, and other value-added services that make our equipment, technologies, and relationships more effective and efficient.

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Digital Tissue™

Digital Tissue™ smart services and technical solutions combine the potential of Big Data with our field-proven technical expertise to help our partners realize maximum productivity and profitability. Our industry-leading technologies are reshaping the business models behind how tissue manufacturers go to market.

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Customer Product Development

Kӧrber is dedicated to helping our partners strategically develop innovative products that disrupt existing channels, open new markets, and create competitive differentiation. Our tissue expertise and forward-thinking technologies in design, analysis, prototyping, and embossing address current challenges and prepare our partners for sustained future success.

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Converter Connections

How embossing impacts toilet tissue aesthetics and consumer buying behavior

The origins of toilet tissue embossing are rooted in practically. The three-dimensional patterns increase surface area and liquid absorbency of the tissue, and also keep multiple plies from peeling apart.

Absorbency and bonding remain key benefits of embossed toilet tissue. However, embossing also plays an important role in meeting the demands of buyers who are increasingly selective about their toilet tissue choices.

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Glue-free technologies increase environmental & operational efficiencies

Converting tissue into rolled products is an adhesive-intensive process. It requires a total of four adhesives: one used during core winding, a second during pickup/transfer, a third for ply bonding lamination, and a fourth seals the tail.

With greater...

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2022 in review; what’s on the horizon for the tissue industry in 2023?

As a tissue leader, Körber has the privilege to support the industry and serve customers through innovation, thought leadership, and global initiatives that inspire growth and champion change. 

The Körber Tissue team made impressive strides in 2022,...

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How pulp prices are changing the way tissue converters do business

While 2020 saw its share of dramatic pulp price increases, 2021 was staggering. European pulp costs rose 53%, followed by Asian and US market increases of 47% and 40% respectively.1,2

Pulp prices in 2022 have continued trending up due to ongoing and new...

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Key takeaways from Tissue World Miami 2022 and how they influence the future of the tissue industry

The global tissue community gathered at Tissue World Miami 2022 (TWM) to explore, share, and celebrate advancements in the tissue industry. This year’s TWM represented the first major tissue event in North America since the pandemic forced changes, and...

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Capitalize on folded tissue product trends with MTC MyFold

The global tissue paper market continues to experience rapid growth. Currently valued at $3.61 billion, it is expected to reach $4.4 billion by 2025 at a CAGR of 5%.1 Likewise, the global facial tissue market is projected to grow from its $12.68 billion...

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Prioritizing sustainability and quality in folded paper products

Sustainability has transitioned from buzzword to global call-to-action in a world dealing with ongoing environmental crises. In the paper industry, sensitivity is heightened around sustainability given the materials used to manufacture products. In...

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Market trends suggest sustainability will drive tissue industry innovation and growth

The global pandemic caused a seismic shift in the tissue industry. Most of 2020 found tissue manufacturers scrambling to keep up with pandemic-related product demand, and nearly all tissue categories saw significant growth.

COVID-19 lockdowns skewed...

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Körber helps tissue converters capitalize on folded tissue products

Facial tissue. Hand towels. Napkins. Folded tissue products remain in demand. Growth rates in North America are projected at 1.8% annually through 2025, and away-from-home (AFH) product trends point to a 2.3% increase during that same timeframe.

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Tissue industry trends and opportunities for tissue converters

On the whole, fiber-based products are in demand. The global compound annual growth rate (CAGR) across segments is projected to crest an average of 2%, with the tissue market anticipated to see even higher percentages.1

The climb is encouraging for the...

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