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20 February 2023

 

Hydrogen Utopia International PLC

 (the "Company" or "HUI")

 

Announcement of partnership with Harold Tillman CBE

 

Hydrogen Utopia International PLC, an LSE-listed company specialising in
turning non-recyclable mixed waste plastic into hydrogen and other carbon-free
fuels, announces it is entering into a strategic partnership with Ethical
Fashion Group (EFG), co-founded by British fashion industry veteran Harold
Tillman CBE, to provide a ground-breaking Fashion Pollution Solution to
clothing manufacturers and suppliers.

 

The partnership will allow clothing manufacturers, suppliers and retailers to
address the devastating environmental impact of products made partly or wholly
from non-recyclable plastics including polyester and polyamides.

 

The Ethical Fashion Group matches 60,000 fashion businesses in 140 countries
with sustainable suppliers around the world. It joins Electron Thermal
Processing and the leading global industrial gases and engineering company
Linde plc as strategic partners of Hydrogen Utopia International.

 

The clothing industry is the biggest pollutant in the world after the oil and
gas sector, producing an estimated 92 million tonnes of textile waste every
day. The majority of clothing is now made using refinery-derived products
including polyester, polyamides or a combination of the two.

 

Aleksandra Binkowska, founder and chief executive of Hydrogen Utopia
International PLC, said: "It is a huge honour to win the support of Mr Harold
Tillman for the work being carried out by HUI. Consumers are dressing
themselves in plastic, often without knowing it, by buying over one trillion
items of clothing a year that are destined to end up in incinerators or
landfill sites. Our Fashion Pollution Solution will give manufacturers access
for the first time to technology that turns these items into road-fuel quality
hydrogen fuel that will power the next generation of carbon-free vehicles. As
Seneca said "Luck happens when preparation meets opportunity" and this is why
I believe Mr Tillman and HUI are a perfect match".

 

Harold Tillman CBE is one of the most instantly recognisable and experienced
figures in the British fashion world. He is a former head of iconic British
fashion brands Jaeger and Aquascutum and the only person to have served two
consecutive terms as Chairman of the British Fashion Council. He was appointed
CBE in 2010 for his services to the fashion industry.

 

Harold Tillman CBE said: "The technology developed by Hydrogen Utopia means
that, for the first time ever, the fashion industry can be part of the
solution to the epidemic of plastic pollution facing the planet, rather than
part of the problem.

 

After a lifetime in the fashion industry, I am passionate about the urgent
need for clothing manufacturers, suppliers and retailers to address the
environmental damage they cause, and to embrace  ethical and sustainable
production.

 

The Ethical Fashion Group helps them do this and this strategic partnership
with HUI has the potential to transform the global clothing industry by
tackling our addiction to plastic products."

 

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For further information please contact:

Hydrogen Utopia International PLC
Aleksandra Binkowska

+44 20 3811 8770

Alfred Henry Corporate Finance Limited (AQSE Corporate Adviser)
Nick Michaels

+44 20 3772 0021
 

Novum Securities Limited (Broker)
Jon Belliss/Colin Rowbury

+44 20 7399 9400

About Hydrogen Utopia International PLC

HUI aims to become one of the leading new European companies specialising in
turning non-recyclable mixed waste plastic into carbon-free fuels, new
materials or distributed renewable heat.

A HUI facility uses non-recyclable mixed waste plastic as feedstock and turns
it into syngas from which new products and energy can be produced. HUI
8nticipates that its revenues will be derived from a variety of sources,
dependent upon location and configuration of the HUI facilities, including the
sale of syngas, hydrogen and other gases, electricity and heat sales, and the
payment to it of fees for a given quantity of non-recyclable mixed waste
plastic received at a HUI facility.

HUI will target areas where there is significant private sector interest or
potential, financial backing is accessible and or where substantial EU and/or
government funded sources of grants and loans are or may be available. The
global increase in fossil fuel-based energy prices reinforces the need for
alternative, price competitive energy sources, which HUI's business model can
provide.

The pressing need to deal with growing amounts of waste plastic combined with
a real momentum in the use of hydrogen from renewable sources may pave the way
for a rapid deployment of and investment in HUI facilities.

 

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