KP Tissue Inc. is a publicly traded company that currently holds a 12.9% interest in Kruger Products Inc., the operating company.
Kruger Products Inc. is Canada's leading manufacturer of quality tissue products for the Consumer market (Cashmere®, Purex®, SpongeTowels®, Scotties®, White Swan® and BonterraTM) and the Away-From-Home market, and continues to grow in the U.S. Consumer tissue business with the White Cloud® brand and premium private label products.
Kruger Products Inc. is headquartered in Mississauga, Ontario and has approximately 2,700 employees across North America. Kruger Products Inc. operates a total of nine FSC® COC-certified (FSC® C104904) production facilities, including six plants, five of which are located in Canada and one in the U.S. Three of the production facilities are converting only.
Kruger Products Inc.’s Canadian paper manufacturing facilities, consisting of four tissue plants in Québec and one plant in British Columbia, have a combined annual tissue production capacity of approximately 350,000 metric tonnes which, according to RISI data, represents approximately 44% of Canada’s annual production capacity.
Kruger Products Inc.'s Memphis Plant, held through KTG, a wholly-owned subsidiary, consists of one conventional light dry crepe paper machine with an aggregate annual capacity of 30,000 metric tonnes (the “Initial Memphis Operations”), and one adjacent 55,000 metric tonne state-of-the-art TAD tissue machine (the “Memphis TAD Machine”).