Ontex produces baby, feminine care and adult incontinence solutions. Ontex works with retailers to help them launch or develop their brands and also supplies its own brands to hospitals, nursing homes, pharmacies and home delivery. Since launching in Belgium in 1979, Ontex has offices and manufacturing plants in Europe, North Africa, China, Australia, the Middle East and the Americas.

Ontex was founded in 1979 and started with the production of underpads in Buggenhout, Belgium for Belgian hospitals, clinics and care homes. By the 1980s and 1990s, Ontex started to produce disposable pants and pads for incontinence, diapers, and panty liners and acquired distribution and production facilities across Europe, in the Czech Republic and Turkey. Ontex opened its first factory outside Europe in China in 2006, followed by a manufacturing plant in Algeria. In June 2014, Ontex was listed on the Euronext Brussels stock exchange. In March 2016, less than two years after its IPO, Ontex entered the BEL20, a list of the top 20 Belgian companies on the Brussels stock exchange.

In 2011, Ontex acquired one of Europe’s biggest disposable hygiene products suppliers, Lille Healthcare and opened plants in Australia, Russia and Pakistan. In 2013, Ontex extended its range of incontinence products with the acquisition Serenity, an Italian brand. In 2016, Ontex acquired Grupo P.I. Mabe, Mexican manufacturer of baby, feminine and adult care products.

Ontex designs and creates products and solutions for retailer brands (62% of its activities), and has its own portfolio of brands (38% of its activities)(Source: Annual Review 2015):

Baby care : Canbebe, Helen Harper Baby, Moltex, Biobaby, Bbtips, Kiddies, Chicolastic, Baby Pants.

Feminine Care : Helen Harper, Fiore.

Adult Care : Id, Canped, Serenity, Lille Healthcare, Euron, Affective, Liberty.