Kruger Products
Canadian-owned · made in Canada · based in Ontario
Cashmere, Purex, SpongeTowels, Scotties, White Swan and Bonterra tissue and towel brands.
Mississauga, ON CA · www.krugerproducts.ca
Kruger Products makes Cashmere, Purex, SpongeTowels, Scotties, White Swan and Bonterra tissue and towel products. It is majority owned and controlled by the private, Kruger family-owned Kruger Inc, with a minority public stake held through KP Tissue Inc on the TSX. Most of its manufacturing capacity and most of its employees are in Canada, with a smaller share at its Memphis, Tennessee plant.
Factors
Ownership
100.0 verifiedCA 100%
KP Tissue Inc's 2025 Annual Information Form shows Kruger Inc, a private company founded in 1904 and controlled by the Kruger family, holding 87.86% of Kruger Products Inc directly plus 0.001% through KPGP Inc; the remaining 12.13% is held by KP Tissue Inc, a Canadian, TSX-listed reporting issuer. Control sits entirely with the private Canadian parent.
- KP Tissue Inc. Annual Information Form for the Fiscal Year Ended December 31, 2025 filing “Kruger is a private company founded in 1904 and controlled by the Kruger family.”
Manufacturing
81.8 verifiedCA 86% · US 14%
The AIF's plant-by-plant capacity table totals 422,000 of 492,000 annual metric tonnes in Canada: New Westminster BC, Crabtree, Gatineau (Laurier and Richelieu) and Sherbrooke/Lennoxville QC papermaking plants plus converting-only sites at Trenton and Scarborough, ON. The remaining 70,000 tonnes are at the Memphis, Tennessee plant.
- KP Tissue Inc. Annual Information Form for the Fiscal Year Ended December 31, 2025 filing “Kruger Products has the largest combined annual production capacity of bathroom tissue, paper towels, facial tissue and napkins in Canada, at approximately 422,000 metric tonnes”
- Our Locations - Kruger Products vendor_statement “Trenton, Ontario - converting only”
People
83.1 verifiedCA 87% · US 13%
Headquartered in Mississauga, Ontario. The AIF states approximately 2,600 of Kruger Products' roughly 3,000 employees are in Canada and approximately 400 in the US.
- KP Tissue Inc. Annual Information Form for the Fiscal Year Ended December 31, 2025 filing “Approximately 2,600 of the 3,000 employees are in Canada and the remaining approximately 400 employees are in the U.S.”
Inputs
75.5 verifiedCA 69% · EU 1% · other 30%
The AIF's fibre sourcing disclosure for 2025 puts 69% of fibre from Canada, 26% from Brazil, 6% from Uruguay and under 1% from Finland; pulp is otherwise sourced from over ten suppliers as a globally traded commodity.
- KP Tissue Inc. Annual Information Form for the Fiscal Year Ended December 31, 2025 filing “69% of its fibre was sourced from Canada, 26% was sourced from Brazil as FSC certified, 6% was sourced from Uruguay as FSC certified and less than 1% was sourced from Finland.”
Where to buy
Grocers
- SpongeTowels search results – Giant Tiger other “SpongeTowels Ultra 2 Ply Rolls, 3-Pack”
- cashmere bathroom tissue search results – Walmart.ca other “Cashmere Bathroom Tissue - 4Rolls”
- spongetowels search results – Walmart.ca other “SpongeTowels Ultra Choose-A-Size Paper Towel, 2-ply, 6-pk”