Kimberly-Clark Scott’s Toilet Paper Plant in Pennsylvania ‘is on a roll’ Due to Pandemic

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A second wave of coronavirus has triggered a second wave of product shortages in grocery stores, though not as severe as the panic-driven hoarding that cleared shelves of everything from soup to sanitizer in March. This time around, many retailers have once again imposed limits on purchases of the humblest of household products — toilet paper.

This is good news in Chester, where Kimberly-Clark Corp. employs 570 people at a 1.3-million-square-foot mill that produces a single product: Scott 1000-sheet single-ply bathroom tissue. It’s an unpretentious workhorse product that traces its origins back to Irvin and Clarence Scott, who made the first toilet paper on a roll in 1890 in Chester.

“It’s the only product that we make, but we make a lot of it,” said Jeff Hutter, 43, the plant manager of the Chester mill.

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