The world’s largest roll of toilet paper

Mr. Danny Girton Jr., special envoy of Guinness World , Blanca Quino, General Manager of Kimberly-Clark Peru and Juan Carlos Belaunde, K-C Manager of Corporate Affairs joined company workers and their families for the event. Weighing 1,340 kilogams, 1 meter and 70 centimeters in diameter and 1 meter and 59 centimeters tall, this gigantic roll of toilet paper was manufactured in the renovated paper plant of Kimberly-Clark Peru, recently inaugurated by the President of the Republic, Alan García Pérez.

The weight of the Guinness roll is equal to the amount of toilet paper a person would use during 100 years. Its surface of 56,000 square meters would be enough to completely wrap the National Stadium. The manufacture of this world-record roll demanded the effort and expertise of electrical and mechanical maintenance workers in the Puente Piedra plant. In the first stage and over twelve hours, a group of specialized technicians set the adequate dimensions so the redraw machine could adjust to the measures that would surpass the record. Subsequently, a modulus was installed to add the embossment and characteristics of a conventional roll.

The Guinness World Record award is presented to K-C Peru’s Juan Carlos Belaunde

After hours of electrical maintenance and verification of the final details, the engines and motor seating were ready to wind and emboss the paper at a high speed. The manufacturing of the gigantic roll took eight and a half hours.

Thus, K-C Peru showed the technology its modern paper plant of Puente Piedra is equipped with, which produces thousands of rolls without stopping.

With an investment of US $30 million, the paper plant of Kimberly-Clark Peru is one of the most modern in the world. The company has doubled its production, which means that it is not only able to supply with a 100% of the absorbent paper consumption in Peru, but it is also able to export to neighboring countries such as Bolivia, Chile and Ecuador; all this keeping its high environmental standards.

More than 2 million rolls of Toilet Paper are produced daily, with which the Earth could be surrounded twice in a day, reach the Moon in little less than one week or cover the distance to the Sun in 10 years.

One hundred thousand rolls are produced every hour at the plant, and before they reach the consumers’ hands they will have passed through more than 100 processes to preserve our competitive advantages of quality, costs and value perceived by the client and user.

It is worthwhile mentioning that 100% recycled fiber was used to to manufacture the record-holding roll. The fiber was obtained the paper recycling campaign “El Nuevo Papel de la Solidaridad” (“The New Paper of Solidarity”) - that Kimberly-Clark Peru carries out jointly with the Fundación para el Desarrollo Solidaridad (Foundation for the Solidarity Development) (Fundades) and the Wong group.

Families enjoying the festivities

This recycling campaign not only aims at creating an environmental conscience, but also to provide better development opportunities to children with special needs. Since its announcement in 2006 to date, more than 700 tons of recycled paper have been gathered, which allowed for 35 full scholarships for the beneficiary children. As part of the event, Blanca Quino, manager of Kimberly-Clark Peru, handed over the Guinness roll to Fundades as a donation. Kimberly-Clark Corporation has concentrated in Peru 70% of the investment (US$ 60 million dollars) designated to all Latin America for

Kimberly-Clark Peru is an affiliate of Kimberly-Clark Corporation, a company founded in 1872 in Neenah, Wisconsin, US. Today, Kimberly-Clark Corporation has operations in 36 countries and is a leading company in the family hygiene and healthcare products in the market. It is present in the Peruvian households with its brands Suave, Scott, Kotex, Huggies, Plenitud and Kleenex.