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 · the vendor's own site “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 · source “SpongeTowels Ultra 2 Ply Rolls, 3-Pack”
- cashmere bathroom tissue search results – Walmart.ca · source “Cashmere Bathroom Tissue - 4Rolls”
- spongetowels search results – Walmart.ca · source “SpongeTowels Ultra Choose-A-Size Paper Towel, 2-ply, 6-pk”