Glatfelter Corporation operates as a global supplier of engineered materials.
The company’s customizable solutions are found in tea and single-serve coffee filtration, personal hygiene, as well as in many diverse packaging, home improvement and industrial applications. Its 2022 net sales were with customers in over 100 countries.
The company’s operations utilize a variety of manufacturing technologies, including airlaid, wetlaid, and spunlace with sixteen manufacturing sites located in the Uni...
Glatfelter Corporation operates as a global supplier of engineered materials.
The company’s customizable solutions are found in tea and single-serve coffee filtration, personal hygiene, as well as in many diverse packaging, home improvement and industrial applications. Its 2022 net sales were with customers in over 100 countries.
The company’s operations utilize a variety of manufacturing technologies, including airlaid, wetlaid, and spunlace with sixteen manufacturing sites located in the United States, Canada, Germany, the United Kingdom, France, Spain, and the Philippines. It has sales offices in all major geographies serving customers under the Glatfelter and Sontara brands.
As a leading global supplier of engineered materials for consumer and industrial applications, the company partners with leading consumer product companies and other market leaders to provide innovative solutions delivering outstanding performance to meet market requirements.
Segments
The company operates through three distinct reporting segments: Airlaid Materials, Composite Fibers, and Spunlace.
Airlaid Materials
Airlaid Materials is a leading global supplier of highly absorbent and engineered cellulose-based airlaid nonwoven materials, primarily used to manufacture consumer products for growing global end-user markets. The company’s products are composed of all-natural fluff pulp, which is sustainable by design. The categories served by Airlaid Materials include feminine hygiene and other hygiene products; specialty wipes; tabletop; adult incontinence; home care; food pads; and other consumer and industrial products.
Airlaid Materials’ customers are industry leading consumer product companies, as well as private label converters. This business holds a leading position in the majority of the markets it serves. Airlaid Materials operates state-of-the-art facilities in Falkenhagen and Steinfurt, Germany, Gatineau, Canada, Fort Smith, Arkansas, and Mount Holly, North Carolina.
Airlaid Materials continues to be a technology and product innovation leader in technically demanding segments of the markets it serves. Its airlaid material production employs multi-bonded, thermal-bonded and hydrogen-bonded airlaid technologies. The company’s facilities are among the most modern and flexible airlaid facilities in the world, allowing it to produce at industry leading operating rates. Its proprietary single-lane festooning technology provides converting and product packaging capabilities, which supports efficiency in the customers converting processes.
Airlaid Materials’ key competitors are as follows:
Hygiene and Other Absorbent Products: Fitesa, McAirlaid’s, Domtar, Suominen, Karweb Nonwovens, and Gelok International.
Wipes: Suominen, Berry Global, Kimberly-Clark, Spuntech Industries, and AS Nonwovens.
Tabletop: SharpCell, Duni/Rexcell, Ascutec, Karweb Nonwovens, and Main.
The company’s strategy is focused on maintaining and expanding relationships with customers that are market-leading consumer product companies, as well as companies converting and distributing through private label arrangements; capitalizing on the company’s product and process innovation capabilities, including developing plastic-free technologies; expanding geographic reach of markets served; optimizing the use of existing production capacity; and employing continuous improvement methodologies and initiatives to reduce costs, improve efficiencies and create additional capacity.
Composite Fibers
The company’s Composite Fibers segment processes specialty long fibers, primarily from natural sources, such as abaca, and other materials to create premium value-added products in the following categories:
Food & beverage filtration material primarily used for single-serve coffee and tea products;
Technical specialties consist of a diverse line of specialty engineered products used in commercial and industrial applications, such as electrical energy storage, home, hygiene, and other highly-engineered fiber-based applications;
Wallcover base materials used by the world’s largest wallpaper manufacturers;
Composite laminates decorative laminate solutions used in furniture, and household and commercial flooring, and other applications; and
Metallized products used in labels, packaging liners, gift wrap, and other consumer product applications.
Composite Fibers maintains a market leadership position in the single-serve coffee and tea filtration markets, wallcover base material and many other products it produces.
Composite Fibers is consisted of five production facilities (Germany (3), France, and England), a metallizing operation (Wales) and a pulp mill (the Philippines).
In addition, the segment generates all the steam used in production by burning natural gas. In addition, Composite Fibers’ lightweight products are produced using highly specialized inclined wire paper machine technology. This segment’s key competitors are as follows:
Single Serve Coffee & Tea: Ahlstrom, Delfort, Purico, Miquel y Costas, and Zhejiang Kan.
Technical Specialties: Nippon Kodoshi (NKK), Zhejiang Kan, Twin Rivers, Suominen, and Miquel y Costas.
Wallcovering: Technocell, Neu Kaliss, Kaemmerer, and Ahlstrom.
Composite Laminates: Mativ, Purico, Miquel y Costas, and Qi Feng.
Metallized: AR Metallizing, Torras Papel Novelis, Vaassen, Galileo Nanotech, and Wenzhou Protec Vacuum Metallizing Co.
The company’s strategy in Composite Fibers is focused on leveraging innovation resources to drive plastic free applications, and new product and new business development; optimizing the company’s asset utilization and product portfolio while capitalizing on growing global markets in beverage filtration, electrical storage, and consumer products trends; maximizing continuous improvement methodologies to increase productivity and expand capacity; and ensuring readily available access to specialized raw material requirements or suitable alternatives to support projected growth.
Spunlace
The company’s Spunlace segment is a global leading specialty manufacturer of premium quality spunlace nonwovens for critical cleaning, high-performance materials, personal care, surface disinfecting wipes, hygiene, beauty care and medical applications. Spunlace, formed as a result of the company’s Jacob Holm acquisition, is a global manufacturer with proprietary production technology, conversion capabilities and branded products. Spunlace serves the world's largest brands and focuses on quality, sustainability, and innovation. The categories served by Spunlace include consumer wipes; critical cleaning; health care; feminine hygiene; high performance materials; and beauty care.
Spunlace's products are used by a wide range of end users. The critical cleaning and high performance product categories are used in applications, such as automotive refinishing, aerospace, cleanroom, automotive acoustics, fire blocking and filtration. It has long-standing relationships with its customers who are niche players with highly specialized requirements. Health and beauty care includes medical gowns and drapes, wound care, surgical towels, facial masks and face and body wipes. Customers in the wipes and feminine hygiene category consist of some of the world's largest consumer brands, retailers, and converters.
Spunlace’s operates four manufacturing facilities, two of which are located in the United States, and one each in France and Spain. In addition, Spunlace provides converting capabilities transforming semi-finished roll goods into finished products using various converting technologies.
Spunlace's key competitors are as follows:
Critical Cleaning and High Performance: Kimberly-Clark, Berry Global, Sellars, Suominen, and Norafin.
Feminine Hygiene, Personal Care, Health and Beauty: Sandler, Suominen, BC Nonwovens, Spuntech, Mogul, Dalian Ruiguang Nonwoven Group, and Asahi Kasei.
The company’s strategy in Spunlace is focused on integrating its operations to maximize planned synergies; leading the industry transition in sustainability by leveraging the company’s technological advantage; being the preferred co-innovator; and optimizing the use of existing production capacity.
Concentration of Customers
In 2022, approximately 15% of the company’s consolidated net sales were from sales to Procter & Gamble Company, a customer in the Airlaid Materials and Spunlace segments.
History
The company was founded in 1864. It was formerly known as P. H. Glatfelter Company and changed its name to Glatfelter Corporation in 2020.
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