Tissue makers Northwood Group and Consuma Paper Products collaborate

Northwood Group and Consuma Paper Products have joined forces to create a market leading retail focused business.

Northwood’s retail business, Northwood Consumer Limited (NCL), and Consuma Paper Products (CPP) creates multi-site tissue manufacturing, offering a complete range  of rolled and folded tissue products. As part of this transaction, the shareholders of  Northwood have acquired a significant share in CPP. The businesses will continue to  operate out of their Birmingham and Grantham facilities.

Northwood, with its integrated supply chain, has supplied CPP with tissue for over 20 years, providing both virgin and recycled tissue either from its own UK Mills or from global supply  partners. More recently, the partnership has evolved further with Northwood’s UK mills  manufacturing recycled paper for some of CPP’s retail customers, enabling them to reduce  their carbon footprint.

This partnership accelerates their joint aspirations to become ‘The  Sustainable Paper Company’ with local supply, vertical integration across the supply chain, consolidated truck loads and new technology in the paper space delivering on lower energy  usage as well as using less fibre. 

Oday Abbosh, Founder & CEO of Better All Round, CPP’s parent company, commented  “Joining forces now is a natural extension of our relationship with Northwood, bringing  together the best of two groups in serving our customers. Together, we will have increased  capacity and be able to leverage new technology to deliver on our sustainability agenda for  the benefit of all our customers. In a market that remains under significant pressure from a  broad set of macro and geopolitical events, this will allow our customers to benefit from  scale, multiple synergies, and shared expertise”. 

Paul Fecher, Chairman of Northwood Group said “Our heritage in tissue production,  sourcing and converting across the Away from Home and Retail sectors, together with our  forward-looking investments in state-of-the-art machinery, allow us to offer innovative  products to our combined clients in the private label area. We are excited to join forces and  to expand our retail range across the whole tissue sector of Toilet, Towel, Facial and Pocket  Tissues in all formats. We look forward to working closely with the teams in Birmingham  and Grantham.  

“The two facilities complement each other and together we will create innovative and cost effective products for the growing retail sector. Additionally, across Northwood we operate  four recycled mills which provides an essential and differentiated asset in serving the retail  market. In the present turmoil across all sectors, as a British owned manufacturing business  we are pleased to be able to offer a dedicated and reliable supply channel as we continue  our investment into UK manufacturing,” Fecher said.