Kimberly-Clark signs UK’s first green hydrogen supply deals for consumer goods

  • Gas
  • July 23, 2025

Kimberly-Clark UK & Ireland, manufacturer of consumer brands like Andrex and Kleenex, is set to invest over £125m into building green hydrogen facilities at two of its UK production sites.

The Barrow-in-Furness site in Cumbria will tap into 100GWh of green hydrogen annually, while the Northfleet plant in Kent will benefit from 47GWh.

This will go towards the production of nearly one billion Andrex toilet rolls and over 150 million boxes of Kleenex tissues every year, replacing natural gas and reducing carbon dioxide emissions by 28,500 tonnes annually.

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