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Kimberly-Clark - Using Plantation Timber

Kimberly-Clark Australia's paper products such as Kleenex® facial tissue, Kimsoft® hand towel and Huggies® nappies use fully renewable sources of fibre.

In 1991, Kimberly-Clark implemented the planting of eight million eucalypt trees in the Mount Gambier region of South Australia to provide plantation eucalypt wood supplies near their mill.

This supply reached full production in 2001 and will fully replace the interim use of residues from sawlog operations (these residues are reject material that cannot be used for sawn timber).

These wood fibre source are a fully sustainable resource, just like growing wheat only on a different time scale.

Using renewable virgin fibres gives a high level of manufacturing control and purity which is very important with products used on the body for personal hygiene.

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