Case Studies

York Cellulose Achieves Carbon-Neutral Supply to One of Its Customers for the 2026 Calendar Year

Background

York Cellulose Pvt. Ltd., a leading manufacturer of hygiene and tissue paper products based in Yamuna Nagar, Haryana, is building environmentally responsible supply chains under its Feathers brand. Driven by a commitment to climate-smart operations, York set out to make its full material supply to one of its customers completely carbon neutral for the 2026 calendar year, positioning itself as a leader in sustainable material supply across India.

Challanges

Making a supply line carbon neutral is only credible if the claim is measurable, conservative, and independently verifiable. York needed to move from intent to a defensible, published result, and faced several hurdles:

Establishing the true cradle-to-grave footprint (Scope 3, Category 1 and Category 5) of two SKUs across 2,500 units and 675 kg, not a rough estimate.
Using year-matched, credible emission factors so the numbers hold up to external scrutiny.
Reflecting real Indian supply and landfill conditions instead of defaulting to UK assumptions.
Offsetting the footprint in full, including its upper uncertainty bound, with high-integrity credits.
Proving the claim: a transparent, traceable record the customer and third parties can independently verify.

Our Solution

Switch Climate Tech acted as York’s ESG and sustainability partner, taking the supply line from measurement to a verified, published carbon-neutral outcome:

Quantified the footprint following the GHG Protocol and ISO 14068-1, applying DEFRA 2026 year-matched emission factors, arriving at 1.69 tCO₂e.
Added a safety margin to account for real-world variation in Indian supply and landfill conditions, giving a conservative footprint range of 1.45 to 1.99 tCO₂e.
Prepared the full Carbon Neutrality Report, documenting scope, methodology, emission factors, exclusions, and results for the customer and all stakeholders.
Procured and retired 2 verified carbon credits (2 tCO₂e) from the Enercon Wind Farms in Karnataka Bundled Project (UCR Project ID 511), covering the footprint through its full upper uncertainty bound, with blockchain-recorded retirement for tamper-proof traceability.

Switch delivered this through its proven Measure, Mitigate and Transform approach to Carbon Neutrality.

Measured Benefits

Achieved certified carbon neutrality for York’s complete 2026 supply to its customer, with 1.69 tCO₂e of emissions offset by 2 tCO₂e of retired credits.
Secured high-integrity wind-power credits (UCR-validated, ACM0002 methodology, vintage 2024) supporting UN SDGs 7, 8 and 13, with Article 6 corresponding adjustments applied.
Established a fully traceable claim, with every credit uniquely serialised and publicly verifiable on the UCR registry.
Created a blockchain-traceable entry for the retirement, a permanent, tamper-proof record anyone can independently check.
Issued a carbon credit purchase and offset certificate any stakeholder can verify against the public registry and on-chain record.
Equipped the customer with verified supplier emission data to strengthen its own Scope 3 reporting.

Strategic Impact

This engagement sets a repeatable, audit-ready baseline for York’s supply line, enabling year-on-year reduction tracking and scalable neutrality across future products and customers. By pairing precise measurement with conservative, high-quality offsetting, York now leads on sustainable material supply in India, while its customer gains a demonstrably carbon-neutral input into its own value chain.

Switch Climate Tech transformed York Cellulose’s sustainability commitment into a verified, market-ready outcome, from measurement to blockchain-recorded credit retirement.

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