BANGOR DAILY NEWS • December 28, 2020
Tissue Plus was just ramping up its production of toilet paper, napkins and other paper products in March when the coronavirus pandemic swept across the country, and demand for toilet paper skyrocketed overnight. The Bangor company’s original plan was to supply those products to commercial customers such as hotels, airports and offices — the very types of places that have had to shut down or scale back during the pandemic. So the newly opened factory quickly changed course, working night and day to produce toilet paper that it could provide to retailers and directly to consumers through a mail-order business. Tissue Plus then helped fill another niche that had taken on great importance as the respiratory virus kept spreading across the country: making sanitary wipes.