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Hygiene and health company Essity is part of the Digital Watermarks Initiative HolyGrail 2.0, to improve sorting and increase the recycling rates for plastic packaging in the EU. By adding invisible codes to packaging, waste sorting facilities can identify the type of plastic and sort it accordingly. The initiative is a large-scale pilot project driven by AIM - European Brands Association and powered by the Alliance to End Plastic Waste.  

The hygiene and health company Essity has been designated a Diversity Leader by the UK business daily Financial Times. In the newspaper’s annual ranking of diversity work in the business sector in 15 European countries, Essity was ranked 25th out of 15,000 companies. 

The hygiene and health company Essity is collaborating with the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) and The Consumer Goods Forum’s (CGF) Forest Positive Coalition of Action initiative to further strengthen responsible forest management, nurture high conservation value forests and increase the certification of forest operations in north-western Russia. Deforestation is a major topic at the ongoing climate summit COP26 in Glasgow, since deforestation and forest degradation affect climate change on a large scale.

The hygiene and health company Essity is holding a digital Capital Markets Day today. Essity will present the company’s strategy and continued transformation journey, as well as its work to achieve the Group’s goal of profitable growth, net zero emissions by 2050 and improved well-being for people across the globe.

Hygiene and health company Essity has acquired Johnson & Johnson Consumer Inc.’s professional sports tape brands Coach, Elastikon and Zonas, which are established premium products in the US market. Essity is a global market leader in taping and strapping and following the acquisition the company will also become leading among US sports medicine distributors. The purchase price is not material relative to Essity’s market capitalization and is not disclosed.

According to Essity’s articles of association, owners of Class A shares have the right to have such shares converted to Class B shares. Conversion reduces the total number of votes in the company. When such a conversion has occurred, the company is obligated by law to disclose any such changes in this manner.

As a leading innovative, digital and sustainable hygiene and health company, Essity will describe the company’s strategy and continued transformation journey, as well as its work to achieve the Group’s goal of profitable growth, net zero emissions by 2050 and improved well-being for people across the globe. The Capital Markets Day will be livestreamed from Essity's headquarters in Stockholm where the company's management team will present the following:

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 has decided on new business areas from January 1, 2022. The business areas will be Health & Medical, Consumer Goods and Professional Hygiene. As a consequence of its higher growth ambitions, Essity has also decided on a new sales growth target of more than 5%, which includes both organic sales growth and acquisitions.