Start your own Manufacturing Unit of Toilet Paper Rolls and Facial Tissues: Startup Business Ideas

Here is a Detailed Project Report on Toilet Paper Rolls and Facial Tissues, its process, market position, demands, investment opportunity and project financials. It comprises a comprehensive analysis of the industry. The report also includes plant capacity, requirement of land and building, raw material detail with supplier list, plant & machinery, flow sheet diagram, total Capital investment along with detailed calculation on rate of return, break-even analysis and profitability analysis.

Toiletries are a huge part of our lives. Not only in our houses, but in our office, schools, colleges, restaurants and cafes. And due to the pandemic, people all around the world are getting aware of hygiene. This increase in awareness has raised the demand for single used paper products, such as facial tissue, toilet paper, etc. The global market is valued at $12,580 million, which is 940938.7120 INR, in 2020. With prediction valuing the industry upto $16160 million by 2026, with the CAGR growth of 3.6% during 2021-26.

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Toilet Paper and Facial Tissue:

The Japanese used Facial tissues in the 17th century. It was introduced to the market in the United States and the West in 1924 by Kimberly-Clark Company, the same company that sells Kleenex. They were introduced as a product to take off one's makeup but as time went by they were used to blow our nose and wipe our hands.

Toilet paper was introduced to the world by Joseph Gayette in New York in the year 1857. He promoted it as a “Medicated Paper for water closet” which he sold for 50 cents. Before the invention of Toilet papers, ancient humans used a lot of inanimate objects to clean their anus. Objects such as, water, stone, leaves, hay, straw, animal fur, seashell. The Romans used Tersonium, a wooden stick with sea foam attached to it.

While we use the terms interchangeably, there’s a lot of difference in toilet papers and Facial Tissues.

While both are made of paper pulp and are single use items. There is a difference between Toilet paper and Facial tissue.

Here are two major differences between Toilet Paper and Facial Tissue:-

➢ Facial Tissues are softer & smoother: Unlike Toilet paper, Facial tissues are smoother and they feel softer to our skin. They are drenched in scents and lotions to make it more compatible with our nose and skin.

➢ Toilet papers are dissolvable: It takes about four to five minutes for toilet paper to dissolve in water. Toilet papers are designed to pass through the pipes and pass through the municipality sewers. Facial Tissue doesn’t have this quality.

How are Toilet Paper made?

Toilet papers are made through two raw materials, either virgin paper product, i.e, chipped wood or recycled paper.

For toilet paper made from virgin paper products (VPP), you need a tree, a little bit of water, chemicals to extract fibre and bleach.

To make toilet paper from recycled paper, companies use Oxygen, Sodium Hydroxide, Ozone, or Peroxide. Now these chemicals help whiten the recycled paper. They’re often scented and coloured.

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Toilet Paper from Virgin Paper Product:

1. Prepare a combination of hardwood tree and softwood tree and strip down their bark.

2. Debark the tree and try to save as much wood as possible.

3. Chip the wood into small pieces

4. Separate them in different batches

5. A digester cooks the wood and other chemicals. It is used to reduce the wood into cellulose, lignin and other ingredients.

6. Washing the pulp to clean the chemicals and lignin.

7. Bleach the pulp, until all colour goes off.

8. Add water about 99.5% and 0.5% fibre

9. The Paper is pressed and dried

10. Paper is scraped through metal blades.

Once this is done, they’re then perforated and rolled and here you have your Toilet paper roll, made out of Virgin Paper product.

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Toilet Paper made from Recycled Paper:

1. Recycled papers are washed by warm water to create pulp.

2. Air bubbles are added to the water to clean any ink or colour on the paper.

3. The pulp is bleached to turn it white. Oxygen based chemicals such as, Sodium Hydroxide, Peroxide, etc. are used to whiten the pulp.

4. Pulp is pressed between the roll and felts to remove water in it.

5. Then it is laid on a flat surface to dry out.

6. They’re embossed.

7. Then they’re put on a roller.

8. They are broken into two ply rolls of paper.

9. A mechanical arm cut and glued it.

10. The long plys are cut by a circular saw.

And that's how you get toilet papers from recycled material.

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How are Facial Tissues made?

To make the facial tissues, they follow the same process as the Toilet paper. The only difference is they add scents and softener to Facial tissue.

Is the Toilet Paper/Facial Tissue industry profitable?

During the end of 2019, a deadly virus rose from Wuhan region in China. Soon it spread all across the globe. Covid changed our society in a great way, our education systems had to change, our working experience, etc.

With covid being infectious and passing through objects, the demand for single use products increased.

Products such as Facial Tissue, Toilet papers are in high demand now. The estimation shows the demand will keep rising for the foreseeable future.

As of 2020, The Toilet paper industry is valued at $ 12,580 millions, estimations also predict it to value about $16,160 million by 2026.

So in conclusion, yes, the toilet paper industry is a very profitable industry right now. Maybe one of the most profitable, just after, sanitising products and pharmaceutical industry.

They’re extremely high in demand and will be so, for the next couple of years.

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