Essity
| Essity AB
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| legal form | Aktiebolag |
| ISIN | SE0009922164 |
| founding | 15th June 2017 |
| Seat |
Stockholm , Sweden
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| management | Pär Bomann, Magnus Groth |
| Number of employees | 47,000 |
| sales | 119 billion crowns 11.6 billion euros |
| Branch | Consumer goods, medical devices |
| Website | www.essity.com |
| As of December 31, 2018 | |
Essity is a listed manufacturer of hygiene paper that emerged from the SCA . The head office is in Stockholm .
history
In April 2017, at the annual general meeting of SCA, the shareholders decided to split the company. Here, SCA spun off its largest business area with hygiene products as Essity . According to the company's own information, the company name is composed of the two words "Essentials" and "Necessities".
The IPO took place on June 15, 2017.
Locations
In Germany there are plants in Mannheim , Mainz-Kostheim , Neuss and Witzenhausen . The German company has its headquarters in Ismaning . With 2,000 employees, the Mannheim plant is the largest location of the Essity Group in Europe - see also Essity Germany .
At the Mannheim site, around 40 million euros were invested in a new process for producing sustainable pulp from straw from 2019. The alternative pulp will be used in production to improve the ecological balance of the products. The straw is bought from local farms. The stalks left over after the grain has been harvested is used. So far there have only been two reliably available fibers in the manufacture of tissue paper, either certified virgin wood fibers or recycled fibers.
In Austria, a site in Pernitz is operated with 540 employees at last. By 2020 this number is expected to drop to 465. The reason for this is the relocation of napkin production to Italy. The plant in Pernitz was founded in 1866 and belonged to the SCA Group from 1995 before it was split up in 2017.
Brands
The best-known brands in the German-speaking area include Tempo , Tork and Zewa.
Until 2007 the handkerchief brand "Softis" was one of the company's own brands. Due to the takeover of “Tempo” in 2007, however, it had to be sold for antitrust reasons (and went to the Italian company Sofidel - whose handkerchief brand is “Regina”). SCA (and thus legal successor Essity) retained a license for the distribution of "Softis" in countries outside of Germany and Austria. "Softis" were introduced in 1977 by the Waldhof-Aschaffenburg paper mills . These were taken over by the SCA group in 1996.
In the medical device sector, Essity is represented by BSN medical and Tena ( urinary incontinence ), among others .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Annual and sustainability report 2018
- ↑ essity.de - Our story (accessed on May 22, 2018)
- ↑ Essity: A Hygiene And Health Powerhouse Is Spun-Off , at www.seekingalpha.com , accessed July 16, 2017
- ↑ Factsheet Mannheim , on www.essity.de , accessed on February 13, 2020
- ↑ Pulp from straw - Essity sets new standards for sustainable tissue paper. In: essity.de. May 23, 2019, accessed March 28, 2020 .
- ↑ kurier.at : "Oh! It's a feh!": Tears for important jobs , February 28, 2018 (accessed on May 22, 2018)
- ↑ ikp.at : 150 years of Ortmann as a business location - press release on the 150th anniversary of the plant, 23 September 2016 (accessed on 22 May 2018)
- ↑ derstandard.at : Softis go Italian , December 20, 2007 (accessed on May 22, 2018)