Clearwater Paper has reached a deal to sell the tissue operations at the company’s big Lewiston pulp and paper mill to an Italian company for $1.06 billion. Clearwater Paper makes tissue paper at the mill and cuts and packages it into toilet paper, paper towels, paper napkins and facial tissues. The tissue comes from wood pulp that is also produced in the factory along the Clearwater River. That pulp also supplies the plant’s third product, paperboard. But only the tissue-paper operation was sold the Italian company, Sofidel, headquartered in Lucca, Italy. The deal the two companies came about five months after Clearwater Paper President and CEO Arsen Kitch said his Spokane-based company was evaluating strategic options for its tissue business so it could focus on paperboard instead. …The sale would include Clearwater Paper’s tissue operations in three other U.S cities too, according to a news release about the agreement from Sofidel.