Field notes
Sourcing guides from the production side
Buying guides for distributors running own brand hygiene paper and cleaning chemicals: formats, specifications, container maths and the questions that decide a landed cost. Written by the people quoting the containers, not by a directory.
Toilet paper manufacturers in Turkey
Which Turkish mills take private label export orders, and how a distributor gets from enquiry to a landed container.
Read the guideTissue manufacturers in Europe
Most European tissue capacity is spoken for by supermarket contracts. This guide maps the converting tier that takes mid size private label orders.
Read the guideFinding a centrefeed roll manufacturer
What a centrefeed specification must pin down, why blue roll is its own market, and how UK distributors reach manufacturer pricing on own brand centrefeed.
Read the guideMini jumbo, jumbo and maxi jumbo, explained
Roll lengths, 60 mm and 76 mm cores, dispenser fit and case maths for the three washroom formats, for the distributor building an own brand range.
Read the guideCouch roll sizes and specification
Standard couch roll widths and lengths, blue versus white, perforation and ply, and the container maths behind an own brand hygiene roll programme.
Read the guideYour first private label tissue container
The sequence between sending a specification and unloading a first own brand container: sampling, artwork, production, documents and the usual mistakes.
Read the guideHow to read a tissue spec sheet
What each line on a tissue specification actually controls, which numbers are measured under a standard and which are marketing, and what to insist on before you compare two quotations.
Read the guidePrivate label cleaning chemicals: what the spec sheet, SDS and label must cover
The lines a cleaning chemical specification has to state, what the sixteen section safety data sheet is for, how the label has to match it, and the questions a distributor should put to the maker before the first fill.
Read the guideStart with two SKUs
Send a spec and we will quote against it
Pick the two lines you reorder most often and send us what they are. A photograph of the case works as well as a specification sheet.
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