Factories making Andrex, Huggies and Kleenex will be swapping out gas for green hydrogen.
Industrial gas boilers are to be replaced at two Kimberly-Clark manufacturing facilities as part of Octopus and RES’ £3bn joint venture HYRO to help industrial businesses embrace green hydrogen and reduce emissions.
HYRO plans to invest £3bn to build green hydrogen plants in the UK working with industrial businesses to make the most of local renewables. In this latest deal, HYRO is developing electrolysers to produce green hydrogen at two Kimberly-Clark UK manufacturing facilities. The two projects in Wales and Kent will use on-site electrolysers with electricity from renewable sources to create green hydrogen, which will be stored and fed into hydrogen-ready boilers inside the factories, replacing industrial natural gas-fuelled boilers. It will create heat needed in the manufacturing processes for tissues and toilet paper.
Oriol Margo, EMEA sustainability leader, Kimberly-Clark, said: “These developments represent a huge step towards our ambition to move solely to renewable energy to manufacture Andrex, Kleenex, Huggies, WypAll and Scott in the UK by 2030.”
Kimberly-Clark’s work with HYRO builds on their existing relationship with Octopus to help decarbonise Kimberly-Clark’s UK business. Kimberly-Clark already has a PPA to be supplied with green electricity from the Cumberhead wind farm in Scotland, which Octopus Energy Generation manages on behalf of Octopus Renewables Infrastructure Trust.
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