Essity in the UK & ROI

Who we are and what we do

Essity in the UK & ROI Consumer Goods

Professional Hygiene

Health & Medical Solutions (HMS)

The name Essity stems from the words essentials and necessities. We are a leading global hygiene and health company offering products for everyday necessities. Hygiene and health are the essence of well-being. Better hygiene and health are necessities for better lives and our products and solutions play an essential role in improving well-being. That is why we are called Essity.

Our vision is; Dedicated to improving well-being through leading hygiene and health solutions. Our mission is to sustainably develop, produce, market and sell value-added products and services within hygiene and health. We manufacture products and offer solutions in Personal Care, Consumer Tissue and Professional Hygiene, Compression Therapy, Wound Care and Orthopaedics.

Essity’s UK & ROI Consumer Goods business is made up of personal care and tissue products for use in the home, including leading household brands Bodyform, TENA, Velvet, Plenty and Cushelle.

Essity’s B2B or ‘Professional Hygiene’ business provides Tork branded toilet tissue, paper hand towels, soaps, wipes and cloths to professional environments and work places in the commercial, manufacturing and industrial sectors across the UK, as well as a complete selection of napkin products for the hospitality markets.

Essity’s HMS business offers the global TENA brand to care homes, hospitals and other healthcare professionals, and is a global leader in the worldwide healthcare market specialising in the areas of Compression Therapy, Wound Care and Orthopaedics. We are focused on the development of world-class branded products that offer high quality solutions for our caregivers and patients.

Essity connects its broad portfolio in Wound Care & related Vascular Diseases, Lymphology and non-invasive Orthopaedics with strong technological competencies to meet the market’s need for reduced complexity and more efficient treatments. With a continuously developing unique and holistic network of integrated therapy solutions.

Manufacturing SitesEssity operates six manufacturing sites in the UK producing branded and own label paper products for the UK market including Cushelle toilet roll, Velvet toilet roll, Tork paper products, and Plenty household towel.Employing around 1,000 people, Essity’s manufacturing sites operate a leading apprenticeship programme as well as offering graduate and internship opportunities.

Skelmersdale Tawd

ManchesterManchester AirportOakenholt

Ramsbottom

Dublin

Dunstable

Prudhoe

Hull

Production Sites:

Essity’s Manchester mill is an integrated site meaning thatit makes paper and converts it into products that are ready to be sent directly to customers. Brands made in Manchester include Plenty household towel and Cushelle toilet roll as well as ownbrand labels for major UK customers such as Asda and Tesco. The mill employs approximately 148 people and is situated onTrafford Park, Europe’s largest industrial estate.

Manchester

Prudhoe

Skelmersdale Tawd

Skelmersdale

Stubbins Ramsbottom

Oakenholt

Prudhoe is Essity’s largest site in the UK and is also an integrated site. Employing around 400 people, Prudhoe makes brands such as Velvet, Cushelle and Tork. Prudhoe also makes own brand label products for UK customers such as Asda.

After being mothballed in 2008, Essity’s Tawdmill was recommissioned in 2017 following a £12m investment and now makes premiumTAD (Through Air Dried) tissue paper thatis converted at other sites into products such as Cushelle. Tawd employs around 42 people.

The Skelmersdale mill is a convertingsite that buys in paper from other Essitysites and converts it into Tork products as well as some other own label products.Tork is Essity’s leading business-to-business hygiene brand found in restaurants, hos-pitals, schools, stadiums and other public venues throughout the world.

Essity’s Stubbins paper mill first started making paper in 1911 and now makes quality paper primarily for our Skelmersdale site. Stubbins makes paper using 100% recycled fibre and employs approximately 64 people.

The Oakenholt site has been recorded as a paper mill dating back to 1875.It now produces toilet tissue, facial tissue and paper towels for the UK market including, brand labels such as Quilted Velvet and Triple Velvet and also private label products for Tesco, Morrisons, Asda, Wilkinson, Lidl and Costco. The mill also makes paper products for customers including Bunzl, Jangro, Asda and the NHS.

Essity has sales and marketing functions to support our brands and our customers as well as a number of support functions including HR, IT, customer services, and procurement.Offices

Manchester Airport Dunstable Dublin

Hull

Essity’s Manchester Airport office is the home of our Consumer Goods business unit representing brands such as Cushelle, Velvet, Plenty, TENA, and Bodyform. The Consumer Goods team is also where we support our retail customers including Asda, Tesco, Morrisons, Lidl and more.

Dunstable is home to our Professional Hygiene business unit, and our Health & Medical Solutionsbusiness unit. The Professional Hygiene team primarily focusses on the Tork brand and supporting our business-to-business customers with outstanding products and first-class service. The Health & Medical Solutions team supports customers including the NHS with a range of products under the TENA brand helping patients manage incontinence issues.

To support our business in Ireland, Essity has an office in Dublin where our marketing and sales team support our Irish based customers.

Hull is where our team specialising in Compression Therapy, Wound Care and Orthopaedics is based. Brands include JOBST®, Delta-Cast®, Cutimed®, Actimove® and Leukoplast®.

Cushelle toilet roll is made using TAD (Through Air Dried) paper making it irresistibly soft. Variants of Cushelle include Cushelle Original, Cushelle FreshLinen, Cushelle Double Rolls, and Cushelle Quilted.

Velvet toilet roll is a soft but strong 2-ply toilet tissue available widely throughout the UK. In 2017, Velvet reached the milestone of planting it’s 10 millionth additional tree courtesy of its Three Trees Promise whereby three new trees were planted for every one used to make Velvet toilet roll.

Bodyform believes that anybody that menstruates should be able to live fearless. Through multiple CSR initiatives and advertising campaigns Bodyform is spearheading the fight against period poverty and breaking the taboo that surrounds menstruation in the UK and ROI.

Whatever the job, Plenty has a range of products for every occasion. Strong when wet, super-absorbent and re-useable; it’s no wonder Plenty is the UK’s favourite brand of household towel!

Trusted by millions, TENA helps people stay secure, dry and odour free. We are the global leader, offering products that help manage urinary incontinence, leakage and bladder weakness, day and night. For over 60 years we’ve been creating discreet feminine pads, underwear and pants, masculine shields and other effective solutions for this surprisingly common problem. By doing so, people of all ages the world over, can continue to enjoy the active, fulfilling life they deserve.

The Tork brand offers professional hygiene products and services to customers ranging from restaurants and healthcare facilities to offices, schools and industries. Products include dispensers, paper towels, toilet tissue, soap, napkins, and industrial and kitchen wipers. Through expertise in hygiene, functional design and sustainability, Tork has become a market leader. Tork is a global brand of Essity, and a committed partner to customers in over 80 countries.

Essity Brands

JOBST quality and long-standing commitment supports effective treatment options for those with venous disease or oedema-related conditions, such as lymphoedema. The wide range of high quality products include compression garments, wrap systems and bandages.

The Actimove range of supports and braces are designed to help relieve pain, from temporary physical injuries or degenerative conditions, enabling patients to take on their daily challenges.

Leukoplast has over 100 years of experience in clinical practice and is well-known for its leading quality. With a range of tapes, film dressings and first aid products that are suitable for hospital and everyday wound care in the home.

Intelligent wound management solutions are the perfect balance of advanced technology, user-friendly concepts and agreeable total therapy costs. Developed for the successful treatment of acute and chronic wounds and reliably covering all wound healing processes.

Delta-Cast along with our associated Soffban® and Gypsona® brands are trusted partners in fracture management. As a global market leader in casting and splinting, Delta-Cast offers a comprehensive and innovative portfolio that can be relied on.

Supporting local communites

Charity partner

School Hygiene Essentials Initiative

Corporate and Social Responsibility

Essity has six manufacturing sites in the UK – Manchester, Prudhoe, Skelmersdale, Tawd, Oakenholt, and Stubbins. Each site regulaly contributes to local community initiatives through funding, sponsorship, product donations, and volunteering. In addition, Essity operates a highly-regarded apprentice program helping young people into employment while supporting education and qualifications. In 2017, Essity supported over 20 local community initiatives across our network of manufacturing sites investing over £15,000 through sponsorship and donations. In addition, Essity‘s Prudhoe Mill was nominated for the All-Party Parliamentary Corporate Responsibility Group’s Responsible Business Champion Awards by MP Guy Opperman.

Essity has supported HRH Prince of Wales’ charity In Kind Direct since 2002 through regular donations of product. Since the relationship was established, Essity has donated over £2m worth of product to In Kind Direct that has benefitted over 5,000 voluntary and community organisations. In 2018, Essity donated 178 pallets of essential products worth £278k to In Kind Direct benefitting 1,062 voluntary and community organisations.

In 2018, Essity launched the School Hygiene Essentials Initiative which aims to highlight the impact that poor hygiene standards and behaviour can have on the health, education and well being of primary school children throughout the UK. Essity’s Bottom of the Class report revealed three areas of concern:

• Teachers, parents and children are concerned about falling hygiene standards in primary schools and the impact this has on health

• Teachers believe children are not learning essential hygiene behaviours early enough

• Children are actively avoiding using the toilets at school and are adopting unhealthy behaviours in order to so so.

Essity is committed to developing solutions to improve hygiene standards and education in primary schools by working collaboratively with teachers, parents,local authorities and health experts.

In 2017, Essity’s Bodyform brand became the first feminine hygiene brand to ditch the traditional blue liquid depicting period blood in advertising and replace it with a more realistic red liquid.Bodyform also became the first feminine hygiene brand to make a formal commitment of regular product donations to help address ‘Period Poverty’ in the UK.Essity’s Velvet brand reached the milestone of planting an extra 10 million trees as a finale to its Three Trees Promise initiative. In 2018, Bodyform continued to lead the way in breaking the taboo around menstruation by becoming the first feminine hygiene brand to feature blood in advertising.

Brand Intiatives

Brand Initiatives

In 2019, Essity was invited to be a part of the governments Period Poverty Taskforce to help the UK government tackle period poverty throughout the UK.

In 2019, TENA launched TENA ProSkin range, their most advanced range of absorbent and skincare products.

It has been predicted that the prevalence of chronic wounds will increase at a rate of 12% per annum due to delayed healing (Guest et al, 2017). To help address and improve this issue, in 2018 Essity launched a Best Practice Statement: Improving holistic assessment of chronic wounds.

Antibiotic resistance is a huge problem that needs tackling. This year Essity launched a #Wound_Warriors antimicrobial stewardship campaign with the aim to educate on the effectiveness of appropriate infection prevention and management in wound care as a means to avoid the unnecessary use of antibiotics.

Leukoplast represents over 100 years of clinical experience. During 2017, Leukoplast transferred this wealth of knowledge and experience into first aid and wound care solutions for consumers to self-treat their healthcare needs at home. Leukoplast is now available in selected pharmacies throughout the UK, offering a range of first aid dressings for everyday wound care.

JOBST compression garments are designed to improve quality of life for patients with vascular to chronic oedema related conditions and the latest innovation in the range is a night time garment, JOBST Relax. Launched in 2017, and proven to support better quality of sleep.