In March, Indonesia’s Sun Paper Source announced it had invested in four tissue machines at its plant in Ngoro, Mojokerto, boosting production capacity to 300,000tpy in total with sister company Sopanusa Tissue & Packaging Saranasukses. Here, TWM Senior Editor Helen Morris interviews Chief Executive Ronald Rusco to get the latest on the company’s growth ambitions across Southeast Asia and beyond. “Tissue paper is now very much considered an essential item for daily living here in Indonesia,” Sun Paper Source Chief Executive Ronald Rusco explains from his tissue plant in Ngoro, Mojokerto, East Java. “And that was never more the case than during the pandemic. Then we saw that the people here had become more concerned about health and hygiene issues, and so tissue paper usage substantially increased during the pandemic years in Indonesia, and across the whole of Southeast Asia.” Sun Paper Source’s plant in Ngoro, Mojokerto, East Java:“Unprecedented sales” [...]

Brazilian aluminium supply coming from Companhia Brasileira de Alumínio (CBA) is said to have tightened, helping to boost the P1020A ingot premium, market participants told Fastmarkets in the two weeks to Wednesday April 24 The post Lower CBA supply driving low-VAT aluminium premium higher in Brazil appeared first on Fastmarkets. [...]