Uploaded May 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
P&G’s Amiens plant has been part of its community for over 60 years – more than 1,000 people producing Fabric & Home Care brands like Ariel, Dash, and Lenor every day, while driving a 60% reduction in Scope 1 and Scope 2 greenhouse gas emissions across P&G manufacturing. Plant Manager Benoît Clanché opens the doors to one of P&G’s largest sites in Europe, from the production line to a distribution centre that exports to 52 countries.
Featuring:
• Benoît Clanché, Plant Manager – P&G Amiens
• Inge De Backer, Corporate Communications Director Europe – P&G
• Didier Hay, Energy & Sustainability Program Manager – P&G Amiens
• Isabelle Gaspard, Distribution Center Director – P&G Amiens
• Silke Wolnewitsch, Product Supply Innovation Center (PSIC) Leader – P&G
• Frank Kressmann, PSIC Global Transport Sustainability Leader – P&G
Amiens is a city of history – home to the largest cathedral in France, over 800 years old, watching over 130,000 residents. Just a few kilometres away, the P&G plant has been writing its own chapter since 1963. Over 60 years of Fabric & Home Care production, over 1,000 people working on site every day, and brands like Ariel, Dash, and Lenor that reach households across Europe. Innovation here is constant: Ariel Pods, whose packaging switched from plastic to cardboard in 2022 to improve recyclability and reduce truck volumes, and the latest launch – Ariel the Big One, a larger-format pod designed for heavily stained loads.
Sustainability at Amiens goes deeper than the product. Didier Hay, the site’s Energy & Sustainability Program Manager, explains how hundreds of energy sensors – tracking compressed air, electricity, and gas – have mapped where energy is consumed and where it can be saved. Heat generated during detergent manufacturing is now recovered to warm the packaging buildings. An innovative pipe-cleaning system reduces water consumption. Across P&G manufacturing, Scope 1 and Scope 2 greenhouse gas emissions have been cut by 60%, and more than 99% of electricity is purchased from renewable sources. Amiens is fully aligned with both milestones. Making a difference is something we do every day, together.
Behind the production hall, Isabelle Gaspard, Distribution Center Director, oversees a logistics operation that reaches 52 countries. To reduce transport emissions, the team works with Market Operations to optimise truck fill rates – adjusting order sizes to maximise loading while ensuring product availability. Where possible, multimodal transport by rail and sea replaces road haulage entirely.
P&G is also looking further ahead. As PSIC Leader Silke Wolnewitsch puts it, electrification is the long-term strategy to reach net zero for all transportation. Through ZEFES, an EU-funded collaborative project, P&G is demonstrating exactly that. Frank Kressmann, PSIC Global Transport Sustainability Leader, explains how the company runs a daily electric truck route between Amiens and the port of Zeebrugge – one of the most challenging segments for electrification: heavy-duty, long-distance, and cross-border. P&G’s role is to provide real-world commercial loads, proving that decarbonised transport can work at industrial scale. From the factory floor to the motorway, P&G Amiens shows what six decades of community, innovation, and environmental progress look like in practice.
What you’ll learn:
• How P&G’s Amiens plant produces Ariel, Dash, and Lenor for European markets
• How Ariel Pods packaging switched from plastic to cardboard and why it matters for sustainability and logistics
• How energy sensors and heat recovery reduce the plant’s environmental footprint
• How P&G has achieved a 60% GHG reduction across its manufacturing operations
• How truck fill rate optimisation and multimodal transport cut distribution emissions
• What the ZEFES electric truck project means for the future of heavy-duty transport
Chapters:
00:00 Amiens: Home to One of P&G’s Largest European Plants
00:53 Meet Benoît Clanché: 60 Years of Fabric & Home Care in Amiens
02:38 Ariel Pods: Packaging Innovation from Plastic to Cardboard
03:08 Ariel the Big One: P&G’s Latest Pod Innovation
04:50 60% GHG Reduction and 99% Renewable Electricity
05:13 Didier Hay on Energy Sensors and Heat Recovery at Amiens
05:58 Isabelle Gaspard and the Distribution Centre: 52 Countries
06:45 Multimodal Transport: Rail and Sea Over Road
07:24 ZEFES: Electric Trucks on the Amiens–Zeebrugge Route
#PGSustainability #StoriesOnTheMove #ManufacturingInnovation #NetZero
P&G’s Amiens plant has been part of its community for over 60 years – more than 1,000 people producing Fabric & Home Care brands like Ariel, Dash, and Lenor every day, while driving a 60% reduction in Scope 1 and Scope 2 greenhouse gas emissions across P&G manufacturing. Plant Manager Benoît Clanché opens the doors to one of P&G’s largest sites in Europe, from the production line to a distribution centre that exports to 52 countries.
Featuring:
• Benoît Clanché, Plant Manager – P&G Amiens
• Inge De Backer, Corporate Communications Director Europe – P&G
• Didier Hay, Energy & Sustainability Program Manager – P&G Amiens
• Isabelle Gaspard, Distribution Center Director – P&G Amiens
• Silke Wolnewitsch, Product Supply Innovation Center (PSIC) Leader – P&G
• Frank Kressmann, PSIC Global Transport Sustainability Leader – P&G
Amiens is a city of history – home to the largest cathedral in France, over 800 years old, watching over 130,000 residents. Just a few kilometres away, the P&G plant has been writing its own chapter since 1963. Over 60 years of Fabric & Home Care production, over 1,000 people working on site every day, and brands like Ariel, Dash, and Lenor that reach households across Europe. Innovation here is constant: Ariel Pods, whose packaging switched from plastic to cardboard in 2022 to improve recyclability and reduce truck volumes, and the latest launch – Ariel the Big One, a larger-format pod designed for heavily stained loads.
Sustainability at Amiens goes deeper than the product. Didier Hay, the site’s Energy & Sustainability Program Manager, explains how hundreds of energy sensors – tracking compressed air, electricity, and gas – have mapped where energy is consumed and where it can be saved. Heat generated during detergent manufacturing is now recovered to warm the packaging buildings. An innovative pipe-cleaning system reduces water consumption. Across P&G manufacturing, Scope 1 and Scope 2 greenhouse gas emissions have been cut by 60%, and more than 99% of electricity is purchased from renewable sources. Amiens is fully aligned with both milestones. Making a difference is something we do every day, together.
Behind the production hall, Isabelle Gaspard, Distribution Center Director, oversees a logistics operation that reaches 52 countries. To reduce transport emissions, the team works with Market Operations to optimise truck fill rates – adjusting order sizes to maximise loading while ensuring product availability. Where possible, multimodal transport by rail and sea replaces road haulage entirely.
P&G is also looking further ahead. As PSIC Leader Silke Wolnewitsch puts it, electrification is the long-term strategy to reach net zero for all transportation. Through ZEFES, an EU-funded collaborative project, P&G is demonstrating exactly that. Frank Kressmann, PSIC Global Transport Sustainability Leader, explains how the company runs a daily electric truck route between Amiens and the port of Zeebrugge – one of the most challenging segments for electrification: heavy-duty, long-distance, and cross-border. P&G’s role is to provide real-world commercial loads, proving that decarbonised transport can work at industrial scale. From the factory floor to the motorway, P&G Amiens shows what six decades of community, innovation, and environmental progress look like in practice.
What you’ll learn:
• How P&G’s Amiens plant produces Ariel, Dash, and Lenor for European markets
• How Ariel Pods packaging switched from plastic to cardboard and why it matters for sustainability and logistics
• How energy sensors and heat recovery reduce the plant’s environmental footprint
• How P&G has achieved a 60% GHG reduction across its manufacturing operations
• How truck fill rate optimisation and multimodal transport cut distribution emissions
• What the ZEFES electric truck project means for the future of heavy-duty transport
Chapters:
00:00 Amiens: Home to One of P&G’s Largest European Plants
00:53 Meet Benoît Clanché: 60 Years of Fabric & Home Care in Amiens
02:38 Ariel Pods: Packaging Innovation from Plastic to Cardboard
03:08 Ariel the Big One: P&G’s Latest Pod Innovation
04:50 60% GHG Reduction and 99% Renewable Electricity
05:13 Didier Hay on Energy Sensors and Heat Recovery at Amiens
05:58 Isabelle Gaspard and the Distribution Centre: 52 Countries
06:45 Multimodal Transport: Rail and Sea Over Road
07:24 ZEFES: Electric Trucks on the Amiens–Zeebrugge Route
#PGSustainability #StoriesOnTheMove #ManufacturingInnovation #NetZero
