Ontex announces that it has entered into a binding agreement to sell its Mexican business activities for approximately €285 million to Softys S.A., a personal hygiene company with operations across Latin America. Softys is a wholly owned subsidiary of Empresas CMPC S.A., headquartered in Chile.

Today Ontex opened a new facility in Stokesdale, part of Rockingham County in the U.S. state of North Carolina. The new Ontex plant currently employs nearly 100 people and manufactures baby diapers for retailers and lifestyle brands. The new plant is planned to expand its production and workforce to also manufacture other product categories.

Ontex supports Woosh, a Belgian startup that aims to make diaper recycling a reality in Ontex’ home country. Woosh now delivers recyclable, disposable diapers and collects used diapers from more than 200 day care centres in Belgium with more than 5,200 children. Together with waste companies Woosh aims to set up the first diaper recycling facility in Belgium.

Ontex is donating 6,000 sanitary napkins to 29 schools and boarding schools of the non-profit association SKOG in Ghent, Belgium to combat rising menstrual poverty.

Ontex announced the official opening of its Global Excellence Center (GEC) for Process Engineering and Global Platform Innovation. In the presence of Ontex CEO Esther Berrozpe, the center was officially opened in Mayen, Germany. Around 180 people will work at the site, as operators of development production lines, engineers and lab technicians.

Ontex has donated more than 1 million personal hygiene items for refugees from Ukraine during the past 2 weeks.

To help school children from disadvantaged families who cannot afford a computer to follow lessons from home, Ontex is donating 50 laptop computers. The end-of-lease devices have been decommissioned and will be donated to families in the area surrounding Ontex' headquarters in Aalst, Belgium, through local charity 4Dewereldgroep Aalst.

Since the start of the pandemic, Ontex has donated more than 5.3 million Ontex products to people in need. Given the urgent need for hygiene items for families in need in Belgium, especially in the Eastern region hit by catastrophic floods in the second half of 2021, Ontex Belgium is donating more than 142,000 baby diapers through the Red Cross.

Since the start of the pandemic, Ontex has donated more than 5.1 million Ontex products to people in need. Faced with the urgent need for personal hygiene products for families in need in the North of France, Ontex has donated more than 469,000 baby diapers through the Red Cross.
The Red Cross in the North of France will be in charge of distributing the diapers to families in need.