The history of Hanke Tissue Sp. z o.o. goes back to the 1930s, when the German corporation Phrix built a cellulose factory in Kostrzyn. The factory suffered in the WWII when it was nearly completely destroyed. In the 1950s, reconstruction works started and in successive years  the factory was gradually developed. In 1990, Kostrzyńskie Zakłady Papiernicze was transformed into a company owned by the State Treasury, and then sold to the Swedish paper corporation TREBRUK AB. Seen as the Swedes were involved in the production of photocopying paper, and not tissue paper and related products which require different machines to be used, they spun off a new company Hanke Tissue and later sold half of its shares to the Dortmund-based company Hanke Papier. Finally, in 1998 Hanke Papier bought the remaining 50% share and became the company’s sole owner. Ownership changed again in 2006 when, due to the owner’s financial problems, the German group MBB Industries AB bought a 100% share of Hanke Tissue sp. z o.o.