28 June 2023: Northwood Group launched Northwood Consuma Tissue (NCT) in December 2022. NCT runs multiple converting lines offering tailored facial tissues, toilet rolls and kitchen towels to customers. The new 14-acre (5.7 hectares) site will house a 235,000 sq ft (22,000 sq m) facility. This will increase the available output of toilet tissue and kitchen towels.

A new, high speed, state-of-the-art and fully automated line will be commissioned and operational during quarter three of 2023. Phased installation of a further three lines will give the site a total finished roll product output of more than 55,000 tonnes per annum.

In addition to mainstream toilet tissue and kitchen towel output, NCT in Grantham said they "will retain its point of difference in Facial, Toilet Tissue and Kitchen Towel with specialist print, lotion, fragrance and added-value capability for events and seasons, to protect the magic and to bring fun to the paper category".

Northwood Group also has planning approval at the Disley Tissue Mill where advanced plans are in place to expand paper-making facilities with the installation of a new 100% virgin paper machine with an output capacity of 70,000 tonnes.

This is additional to the existing four paper mills which manufacture some 100,000mt of paper made from 100% recycled fibre across the UK and Spain.

The investments will cement Northwood Group as a "fully vertically integrated supplier to both the retail and away-from-home sectors".  

By Chloe Nightingale, Community Reporter,  https://www.chesterstandard.co.uk/n