Mannheim: Continuous production in the Essity plant – Why is the toilet paper still often empty?

• The Swedish group Essity has seven locations in Germany Toilet paper forth.
• The largest plant in Europe has 2,000 employees in Mannheim.
• Why are they Toilet paper shelves in Mannheim supermarkets still empty?

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Hardly anyone knows the name of the Swedish company – even though we all use its products every day. The European market leader produces in seven factories in Germany Essity not only Toilet paper, Handkerchiefs, household rolls and napkins of the “Zewa”, “Thank you” and “Tempo” brands, but also articles for wound care and “Tena” diapers under the name “Leukoplast”. The largest work – and the only one with one own pulp production – is on Sandhofer Straße in Mannheim. 2,000 employees will Mannheim location employed, 1,200 of them in production alone.

Mannheim: Toilet paper shelves in supermarkets are empty – demand has increased by 700 percent

In 2018, Mannheim’s Essity mill produces 283,000 tons of paper. This is usually enough to meet the need. However, one thing has been striking in supermarkets for a few weeks now: yawning emptiness on the toilet paper shelf. Household rolls and facial tissues are also usually not available in drugstores and supermarkets.

The reason: In response to the coronavirus outbreak, many citizens buy Toilet paper on stock. Normally people only buy toilet paper when the last roll has started, says Christian Böttcher from the Federal Association of the German Food Trade. There are many reasons for this toilet paper hamster, but they always have something to do with consumption, security and disgust.

In the Corona crisis be the Need toilet paper in the past four weeks 700 percent increase, Böttcher told the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.

Corona virus in Mannheim: Isn’t the “Essity” plant lagging behind with the production of toilet paper?

Many people wonder why that Toilet paper shelves in Mannheim remain empty if the plant in which it is manufactured is only a few kilometers away. Plant manager Roger Schilling explains in an interview with Radionews: “There is enough and it is constantly being reproduced”. At the moment, goods would roll off the assembly line 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

Toilet paper hamsters in the time of Corona: capacities in retail are not designed for this

Schilling explains the bottlenecks through the hamster purchases. More specifically, this is due to the great logistical challenge that the Delivery to the markets would arise if the Goods are bought straight away. The capacities in the trade are for one high demand simply not designed.