Essity & IPP: How our pallet pool helps with increasing demand

IPP’s long-time partnership with Essity ensures ongoing delivery by supplying more than two million pallets a year, while also extending to include display pallets to support increasing demand from Lidl, the UK's fastest-growing bricks and mortar retailer.

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A trusted partnership spanning near two decades

IPP supplies more than two million pallets per year for Essity, which owns tissue and paper towel brands including Cushelle, Tork and Plenty.

The two businesses have collaborated for nearly two decades, a partnership which has now been extended to include display pallets on the aisles of one of the UK’s fastest-growing supermarket chains. Essity

Benefits of IPP’s wooden Dusseldorfer display pallets


•    Ease of use
•    Seamless integration into the supply chain
•    Supports product growth and promotional peaks within a demanding retail model
•    Enables expansion
•    Waste and unnecessary miles are reduced 
•    Flexibility and responsiveness 

“Our long relationship with IPP is down to its excellent service, agility and transparency, along with trust and reliability. It has an in-depth understanding of our business and can respond and react as and when we need. “IPP is on hand to provide support with promotional peaks and has been instrumental in helping launch our display pallets in a major UK supermarket. “It’s been an exciting year so far for us at Essity, and we’re glad to have a reliable supply chain provider which continues to invest in solutions to drive performance.” Paul Vale, Essity’s UK logistics manager

A strong partnership focused on innovation and sustainable ways of working

IPP has an operational presence at two of Essity's largest UK manufacturing sites in Trafford and Prudhoe, to mitigate costs, reduce Co2 emissions and help operations run smoothly.

This work includes incentivising transporters and identifying empty running legs where additional Essity products could be decanted and trans-shipped.

IPP is constantly evolving and investing in digital and data-led solutions to improve visibility and efficiencies across customer supply chains, ensuring partners receive the best support as they continue to grow. 

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