The twin requirements of converting massive amounts of raw materials and a highly competitive consumer marketplace have led to a high degree of concentration in the U.S. sanitary paper products industry.
Subcategories in the sanitary paper products industry are: disposable diapers, which accounted for $3.63 billion of 2001 shipment values; sanitary tissue paper products, for $1.68 billion; and sanitary napkins and tampons, for $1.17 billion.
Sanitary paper products companies manufacture sanitary paper products from purchased paper, such as facial tissues and handkerchiefs, table napkins, toilet paper, paper towels, disposable diapers, and sanitary napkins and tampons.
Most of the major companies in the sanitary paper products industry are integrated, in that they produce the raw materials for finished products, such as parent rolls of tissue at large paper mills, as well as the converted sanitary paper products.
The largest companies within the sanitary paper product industry are Georgia-Pacific Corporation, Kimberly-Clark Corporation, and The Procter and Gamble Company.
SIC 2676 applies to SANITARY PAPER PRODUCTS.
Sanitary paper products are usually divided into two sectors: consumer or commercial and industrial (C and I).
Sanitary food containers have been a strong growth market for the paper industry.
Typically, metal sanitary ware manufacturers distributed products through independent wholesale distributors of building products.
According to the U.S. Census Bureau's Annual Survey of Manufactures (ASM), the value of shipments in the sanitary paper industry was approximately $7 billion in 2001.
The 1990s were marked by a series of massive mergers in the sanitary products market. The trend was started by the 1995 merger of Kimberly-Clark Corporation and Scott Paper Company.
The majority of sanitary paper products are made from pulp or paper, though a significant percentage are made using the "nonwoven" process in which natural or synthetic fibers are bonded together by cohesion, friction, or adhesion.
Yes, tampons are sanitary - thus why they're referred to as sanitary products - but sanitary just means clean, not sterilized. Although sanitary tampons can contain bacteria, especially if they are stored in warm moist areas or not kept clean before insertion. Tampons also encourage bacteria to grow within the vagina so they are not the most sanitary menstrual product, thus various health risks.