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This facility uses the through air dried paper technology to produce bathroom tissue and paper towels. [2] Currently, Irving Tissue manufactures products under the Majesta and Royale brands in Canada and the Scotties brand in the United States. [1] (Another Canadian company, Kruger Inc., owns the Canadian rights to the Scotties brand.)
Scott Paper was founded in 1879 in Philadelphia by brothers E. Irvin Scott and Clarence Scott, and is often credited as being the first to market toilet paper sold on a roll. They began marketing paper towels in 1907, and paper tissues in the 1930s. [3] In 1927, Scott purchased a Nova Scotian pulp mill, and thus began a long series of acquisitions.
Kimberly-Clark paper mill in Niagara, Wisconsin, 1942. Kimberly, Clark and Co. was founded in 1872 by John A. Kimberly, Havilah Babcock, Charles B. Clark and Franklyn C. Shattuck in Neenah, Wisconsin, with $42,000 (equivalent to US$1,102,383 in 2024) of capital. [5]
The Bounty brand name and its tag line "the quicker picker-upper!" came about through the acquisition of Charmin in 1957 by Procter & Gamble (P&G), becoming its first consumer-paper products business. Charmin Towels was the successful predecessor to Bounty, which led to P&G's strategic investment in research and development of the innovative ...
Georgia-Pacific LLC is an American pulp and paper company based in Atlanta, Georgia, [2] and is one of the world's largest manufacturers and distributors of tissue, pulp, paper, toilet and paper towel dispensers, packaging, building products and related chemicals, and other forest products—largely made from its own timber.
Americans use an estimated 36.5 billion rolls of toilet paper every year and the average consumer will go through the equivalent of 384 trees just for toilet paper in the course of a lifetime.
While the trend in toilet paper manufacturing has been that "more and more companies are offering more sustainable brands," with even Kimberly Clark and Georgia-Pacific making versions of its ...
Each has its own recycling facilities, secondary effluent treatment system, and environmental and energy conservation programs. Two paper mills also have deinking facilities and produce approximately 300,000 tonnes of deinked pulp per year, which is used to manufacture various Kruger Inc. paper and tissue products.