Essity launches green hydrogen pilot for CO\2\-free tissue production
Hygiene and health company Essity is launching a pilot project to run a paper machine CO\2\-free with green hydrogen in the company’s production facility in Mainz-Kostheim, Germany. For this purpose, natural gas is successively replaced by green hydrogen on the site’s largest paper machine during ongoing production. The project is the first of this magnitude in the paper industry. Essity’s investment in the pilot project amounts to EUR 4m (approximately SEK 40m).Essity is starting to use green hydrogen in its production processes. The Essity site in Mainz-Kostheim is testing to what extent