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A tissue family with a modern business approach.

Huchtemeier is a family-owned company with 130 years of tradition and partnerships in 18 countries. From 1959 to 2025, the company was owned by the Voßschulte family from Dortmund, who continue to provide the company’s management to this day.

Since 2025, Huchtemeier has been part of the Grigeo Group, which has acquired 100% of Huchtemeier Papier GmbH.Huchtemeier supplies hygiene paper and napkins to wholesalers and specialized distributors, as well as raw materials and semi-finished products to the tissue industry.

We truly value and live the spirit of a genuine family business.Within our team, interactions are friendly, respectful, and on equal footing. The passionate cultivation and expansion of our industry network may well be one of our greatest strengths.

The of Huchtemeier

1895

Huchtemeier is founded as a collection company for paper raw materials.

1959

Transfer to Dr. Voßschulte as a paper recycling company.

1965

Start of import and production activities.

1970er / 1980er

Acquisition of various recycling and paper processing companies in Germany.

1982

First tissue processing in joint venture with DDR combine in Grimma/Saxony.

1989

Relocation of tissue processing to Polish state-owned enterprises in Kosztryn.

1992

Together with the city of Dortmund, Huchtemeier founds the "Public Private Partnership DOREG" as a municipal paper disposal company. Huchtemeier takes over the Hanke Tissue Sp.zo.o paper mill in Kosztryn.

1999

Austrian cellulose group Heinzel AG joins Huchtemeier.

2006

Voßschulte family and Heinzel AG sell majority stake to MBB Industries AG.

2007

Huchtemeier Recycling (Hamm) is sold to the Tönnsmeier Group (today PreZero) and takes over the distribution of napkin tissue for Klippans Bruk AB (S)

2011

Repurchase of the shares from MBB Industries AG by the Voßschulte family, Foundation of the production company Huchtemeier Polska HPL in Kosztryn (Poland) and expansion of the HPL production with three additional folding towel machines.

2012

Foundation of the production company Huchtemeier Polima Hungary HPL in Fertőszéplak.

2014

Foundation of the sales office for tissue parent reels in Kosztryn (PL)

2015

Relocation of the HPL production plant from Kosztryn to Nysa (PL) in the JV with GZP/ASKO PAPIER.

2016

Foundation of Huchtemeier Nysa Operations for production coordination in Poland.

2017

Start of folded towel production in the JV Aquator Papier in Nysa (PL) as well as start of the central service warehouse for the 'FOCUS' today "EXPECT" range in Nysa (PL)

2018

Start of the central service warehouse for the 'SELECT' range in Erfurt (D) and commencement of airlaid wipes production in Fertőszéplak (HU).

2020

Foundation and start-up of the joint venture Essential Tissue SRL in RO-Dej with sales offices in Warsaw, Vienna and Sofia and launch of the Green Hygiene brand for ecological washroom papers.

2021

Shares in DOREG Dortmunder Recycling GmbH are sold to EDG Entsorgung Dortmund GmbH

2022

Start of a modernised Perini production line for toilet paper at ASKO PAPIER in Nysa (PL)

2025

Part of the Grigeo Group, which is acquiring 100% of Huchtemeier Papier GmbH.