'We've put £30m into Hull to do the right thing'

INEOS CEO SAYS NVESTMENT MARKS HUGE STEP TOWARDS NET ZERO COMMITMENT

- By COREENA FORD

MAJOR Humber employer INEOS has completed a major £30m investment at its Hull manufacturing site amid moves to slash its carbon emissions.

The Saltend INEOS Acetyls facility is a global producer of acetic acid and the largest manufacturer of its kind in Europe, and recent years have seen the chemicals giant strive to cut its carbon emissions. The firm has been busy converting the facility to run on clean-burning hydrogen instead of natural gas following a multimillion-pound investment, resulting in a 75 per cent cut in its carbon emissions - the equivalent of taking around 160,000 petrol cars off the road.