Kimberly-Clark Professional makes multimillion-dollar investment to increase recycled-fiber content capabilities

March 7, 2011

Kimberly-Clark Professional, Roswell, Ga., has made a multimillion-dollar investment to boost the recycled fiber capabilities of its Loudon, Tenn., facility. The investment will enable the mill to increase the amount of recycled fiber in a range of Kleenex® and Scott® brand towel products.

The company says this investment is consistent with the large recycled-fiber investment it made in its Mobile, Ala., facility in 2007. Such capital improvements will enable the company to increase the recycled-fiber content of some of its towel products to up to 100 percent. Project construction was completed in July 2010 and production currently is ramping up.

In 2009 the company launched Reduce Today, Respect Tomorrow, a program that represents its philosophy of reducing the use of natural resources throughout the life cycle of its products. This big-picture approach helps the company to design products to eliminate waste from the start, it says, and adds that products created with source reduction in mind are designed in such a way that users consume less, either through improved performance, more reliable dispensing methods, or both.