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Name change of Northumberland tissue maker

Tissue maker SCA - one of Northumberland’s largest manufacturing employers – is to change its name to Essity later this year.

The name change follows a decision by Swedish parent company Svenska Cellulosa Aktiebolaget to split its global hygiene and forest products businesses into two separate listed companies.

One company will continue to be known as SCA, an efficient and well-invested forest company that will include the forest products operations and all forest land currently owned by the SCA Group.

The second – SCA’s hygiene business, that includes its mill in Prudhoe employing 400 people and is home to luxury toilet roll brand Velvet – will become a leading global hygiene and health company operating under the name Essity.

SCA was founded in 1929 as a forest products company operating in Sweden. Over the years, the company expanded geographically and into other business activities, such as paper products production, personal care, consumer tissue and Away-from-Home tissue.

Synergies between the operations have diminished over time. In 2016 the hygiene business accounted for 86% of the Group’s net sales and the forest products business for 14%.

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