Success Stories

The audited company has its production site in Austria. Besides remelting, alloying and anode production, the plant produces metal powder for the automotive and chemical industries. In the past, the company management has already introduced a number of energy saving actions, since the manager is very enthusiastic about energy efficiency. Detailed process analysis has resulted in additional recommendations which result in significant annual energy savings.

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The PINE audit in the company identified several energy saving measures, which have been proposed and discussed with their Management. Four of these measures have been approved for implementation, and these are in the following areas: technological electric drives, lighting, ventilation, and computer configurations. Total investment is about € 55,000 and that will lead to annual energy savings of more than 292,000 kWh, which is a simple payback period of only 1.9 year, and CO2 reduction of 239.8 tons/year!

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Lordos Plastics (founded in 1959) is a leading supplier of plastics, providing a wide range of products. The Company consists of 5 buildings and almost 200 employees. Its annual electricity consumption reaches 5.693 MWh. After several suggestions made from PINE project, they decided to make changes in the lighting field with replacing their lamps with LED. Lighting consists of 4,85% from the total consumption and after replacing their lamps, they managed to reach a saving of 15%. They save 50.600KWh which is a saving amount of 9.709 EUR

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Cielo e Terra Vini Spa is a winery producing over 20 million bottles per year. It adopted lean management since 2006 to improve its production processes focusing on logistics, materials and water flows. The PINE energy audit has provided new insights on energy efficiency (analysis of heat and power consumption, key performance indicators and linear regression analysis to identify critical factors). A wide range of energy efficiency actions has been identified, including heat recovery, automatic temperature control, improving compressed air production, distribution and management. Total savings sum up to 84toe (179 ton of CO2) per year. Most of these actions are already being implemented.

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Ro-Credo SRL was founded in 1995 and its field of activity is the manufacture of bread and cakes. The company is constantly preoccupied with saving energy and the recently implemented measures are: a) use of frequency converters at the main mixers; b) installation of an automatic unit for temperature heat control; c) installation of automatic system for tracking hourly electricity consumption; d) replacement of conventional lamps with LED lamps. Annual savings estimated: 270MWh.

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Company LYKOTEX Slovakia, Ltd. is manufacturing primary and secondary textile materials and is producing bonded textiles. PINE Project provided an independent qualified view of energy consumption in this company. Reconstruction of the lighting system can annually save up to 52,800 kWh. Changes in the heating system can annually save up to 92,158 kWh of thermal energy derived from natural gas, savings of 30%. The return of the majority of the proposed measures is 5 years and the company, according to its financial condition, will step by step implement all of them

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Graficas Z is a good example of an SME committed to improve their process and service in a sustainable manner, by collaborating with an external advisor on identifying a variety of potential saving measures in all aspects of the production process and facilities, ranging from lighting and compressed air to HVAC. In this company, the identified and accepted efficiency measures provide savings close to 16% of the original consumption. These savings help the company to become cleaner and more competitive thanks to their participation in the PINE project.

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