At Žilina mill we produce tissue products both for the consumer brands Tento, Mola and Lambi as well as for the away-from-home brand Katrin. We also produce tissue products for our customers´ own brands.

Consumer brands - Tento, Mola and Lambi

We offer a full range of toilet tissues, household towels and handkerchiefs for the daily use of household consumers. Napkins and facial tissues, which also belong to this category, are produced in other mills of Metsä Tissue.

Away from home brand - Katrin

The Katrin brand provides cleanness, hygiene, comfort and functionality for public washrooms, industrial work environments, hotels, schools, restaurants and the healthcare sector. In other words everywhere where people are outside their homes. Katrin includes in its offer a complete line of toilet tissues, hand towels, industrial and cleaning wipes, paper pads, soaps, dispensers and other complements and solutions for toilets. The majority of AFH Katrin products are manufactured in the Polish mill Krapkowice. At Žilina mill we produce Katrin toilet paper - small rolls and kitchen towels.

The Žilina mill’s history dates back to 1905 when it began producing cellulose for paper and synthetic fibre products. The production of sulphite alcohol began in 1941. Since 1983, the mill has been producing only hygienic paper tissue.

After the acquisition in 2006 it has been part of Finnish Metsä Tissue Corporation which has 9 tissue production units in 5 countries (1 unit in Finland, 3 in Sweden, 3 in Germany, 1 in Poland and 1 in Slovakia). Metsä Tissue is part of Metsä Group with approximately 9,300 employees and operations in 30 countries.

The mill produces toilet tissues, household towels and handkerchiefs.

Some 330 employees work in production, maintenance, logistics, product and process development, business and administration.

The mill has two paper machines, PM1 and PM2, six converting lines and one deinking line. It produces 80,000 tonnes of tissue paper per year.

Since March 2011, part of the mill’s electricity has been produced with the hydroelectric power plant at the VVB Žilina dam and currently accounts for some 70% of the mill´s total electricity consumption.

Did you know that TENTO…

• is a famous tissue brand in CEE region, especially in Slovakia and Czech Republic (toilet tissue, kitchen towels, household sheets, napkins, facial tissues, handkerchiefs)
• was previously also our company name – Metsä Tissue acquired Tento a.s. in 2006
• means ‘this‘ in Slovakia and the company´s old brand slogan was: “If toilet paper, then TENTO (THIS)!”?

Contact information

Metsa Tissue Slovakia s.r.o.
Celulózka 3494
011 61 Žilina
Slovakia
Tel.: +421 41 5121 111 or +421 41 5121 401
e-mail: metsatissue.sk@metsagroup.com

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Our mill has the following certification:

• ISO 9001 Quality and ISO 14001 Environmental Management Systems
• BRC Hygiene ISO 22000 and Work Safety OHSAS 18001
• Chain of Custody certification for both PEFC™ and FSC®
• Energy Efficiency System (EES) in use

Eco-labels, such as the EU Ecolabel and Nordic Ecolabel, are strong indicators of our environmental commitment.