Global hygiene company extends partnership with pallet pooling experts

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Nicky Godding

One of the world’s largest hygiene and health companies has extended its supply chain partnership with one of Europe’s leading pallet poolers.

Essity has signed a new contract with IPP, taking a collaboration which began in 2009 into its 15^th year.

IPP delivers more than two million pallets per year into 21 locations across the UK and Ireland, Benelux, Germany and Slovakia for Essity, which owns tissue and paper towel brands including Cushelle, Tork, Tena and Plenty.

The two companies have developed a strong partnership focussed on innovation and sustainable ways of working, with IPP establishing an operational presence at two of Essity's largest UK manufacturing sites, in Trafford and Prudhoe (Northumbria), to mitigate costs and help operations run smoothly.

This work includes incentivising transporters and identifying empty running legs where additional Essity products could be decanted and trans-shipped.

The partnership has achieved a milestone of almost 30 million pallets serviced at IPP’s on-site depots since 2010, plus a saving of almost 2,000 tonnes of CO2 emissions since 2019.

Shelley Pierre, commercial director at IPP, said: “The relationship with Essity works well. We share a commitment to responsiveness, agility and sustainable agendas.

“Our ambitions for the next few years include using new technology alongside our digital transformation agenda to streamline processes and create new efficiencies within our businesses.”

Terry Scott, factory logistics manager at Essity, said: “We're happy to have renewed our long-standing partnership with IPP. The extended collaboration underscores a shared dedication to environmental responsibility, delivering quality products, and prioritising customer satisfaction."

Nicky Godding

Nicky Godding is editor of The Business Magazine. Before her journalism career, she worked mainly in public relations moving into writing when she was invited to launch Retail Watch, a publication covering retail and real estate across Europe. After some years of constant travelling, she tucked away her passport and concentrated on business writing, co-founding a successful regional business magazine. She has interviewed some of the UK’s most successful entrepreneurs who have built multi-million-pound businesses and reported on many science and technology firsts. She reports on the region’s thriving business economy from start-ups, family businesses and multi-million-pound corporations, to the professionals that support their growth and the institutions that educate the next generation of business leaders.