In paper business, the word “tissue” includes all paper products used for sanitary and hygienic purposes both at home and/or in public places. The tissue papermaking is a financially and feasible viable project as it has huge returns and few investments. The set up of the tissue paper making manufacturing unit can be small-scale or large-scale business. An individual can start a tissue paper making business with little investment and can develop the structure whenever he wants. As the use of paper is increasing rapidly, it’s a new revolution in the paper industry. More than 5 billion people are supplied paper worldwide by the pulp and paper industry. Initially, pulp and paper making was a slow and labor-intensive process, but today the high-tech and high-speed paper machines and capital-intensive equipment drive these processes. More than 400 million tons of paper are produced every year around the world. Paper is used for several purposes. Many countries have banned poly bags and are accepting the paper as a substitute. Toilet rolls, tissue papers, paper towels, facial towels, and much more are being quite easily accepted by the world, and hence this is shaping up the paper industry and providing employment to many people. According to a specific application inside a market segment, the hygienic tissue paper products are manufactured to meet the desired performance. The most important properties used to evaluate the performance of tissue products are – softness, water absorbency, disintegration, and strength (dry or wet). A vast number of fiber types, chemical additives, tissue machine technologies are available in the market for the manufacturing of tissue products. The right combination of additives, fibers, additives, and technologies have to be chosen by the tissue paper manufacturers to produce specific tissue products capable of achieving the desired performance while providing enough profitability to the producer. Paper products can be placed in three main categories, based on their function.
1) Packaging – defined as packaging materials
2) Printing and writing – defined as graphic papers
3) Wiping and absorbing- defined as household and sanitary papers.
The third category, also known as tissue and hygiene papers, has a wide range of types and applications. Due to the constant increase in demand, tissue paper together with packaging products are the promising sectors in the paper industry. The tissue paper making involves huge machinery industrially. The tissue paper making process includes the following processes.
- Pulp and Dye
- Pressing
- Creeping
- Cutting and Reeling
The tissue sector continues to be a growth industry worldwide, offering new opportunities for companies to expand. Recently, there has been a great deal of interest, in particular, in the use of recovered fibers to manufacture new tissue paper products. However, whether this is actually better for the environment than using new fibers is open to question.