Beech Island Paper Mill, South Carolina

Kimberly-Clark’s Beech Island Paper Mill in South Carolina is the company’s largest production plant, and one of the largest single sources of toilet paper in the country. 2,000 people work at the plant, making Scott, Cottonelle, and other brands of toilet paper, as well Kleenex facial tissue, Kotex feminine products, Huggies diapers, and paper towels. Kimberly-Clark is a paper company that makes around a quarter of the toilet paper in the USA. Started in Neenah, Wisconsin, in 1872, it still employs more than 2,000 people in that area, at a few smaller production sites, and at its former corporate campuses. In the 1970s the company started divesting itself of its pulp and sheet paper mills to focus on manufacturing disposable paper hygiene products, and is now based in Irving, Texas. It has more than $20 billion in annual revenue, and employs around 40,000 people at dozens of manufacturing locations, including several plants making toilet paper for its Scott and Cottonelle brands, as well as commercial toilet paper for “away-from-home” suppliers.