The Yichang Waterloop plant In China, L’ Oréal’ s Yichang factory makes makeup products for the L’ Oréal Paris, Maybelline and Yue-Sai brands with 400 staff. It adopted the Waterloop system in 2021 after trialling the closed loop and water recovery and treatment system in 2020.

A detailed water consumption study was also carried out to find potential sources of water savings. It found that the cooling tower consumed more than 20 % of water used by the facility, so this was replaced by an air cooler in 2021.

Yichang Plant Director Emy Lu explains:“ The plant has always strictly implemented the Group’ s resources and energy efficiency targets by implementing multiple initiatives, including enhancing awareness of watersaving among employees, improving cleaning efficiency and reusing water for gardening for instance. In 2020, the plant’ s water consumption was reduced by 85 % compared with 2005.”

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