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Measures, Technologies and Good Practices
Do you want to know how much different measures and technological solutions would cost and how much money and resources they can save for your business? This database offers such data in a concise and comprehensive format.
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Sustainable and energy-efficient German bakery
Next step, CO2 neutral...
Sustainable and energy-efficient bakery radically cuts CO2 emissions
Its energy strategy reduces energy consumption by half
Ihr Bäcker Schüren is a German bakery almost...
Sector / Industry:
- Food processing
Resources:
- Energy
Costs, savings, and payback time:
High cost
Good practice
A second life for rice waste
Viable plastic alternative
Ten years of R&D pays off by discovering a second use for rice waste
Tackling an agricultural waste issue by transforming rice husk into plastics
La Cámara,...
Sector / Industry:
- Food processing
Resources:
- Waste
Costs, savings, and payback time:
High cost
Good practice
Reusing coffee grounds to produce vegetables and compost
The 4Ps of success
SME collects and re-uses coffee grounds to produce mushrooms
25 % of turnover in 2018, concludes three years of increasing turnover
PermaFungi, an urban agricultural and circular...
Sector / Industry:
- Food processing
Resources:
- Waste
Measure
Ecodesign to extend the useful life of products
Consumers are fully aware of companies deliberately reducing the useful life of products through planned or built-in obsolescence, along with its negative impact on the environment.
Extending the...
Sector / Industry:
- All manufacturing industries
- Manufacturing of machinery and equipment
Resources:
- Energy
- Materials
- Water
- Waste
- Carbon
Costs, savings, and payback time:
Medium cost
Measure
Voluntary material efficiency commitment in the food industry
In the food industry, raw materials account for about 45 % of net sales. The cost of purchasing goods sold in the grocery trade is more than 70 % of turnover. Therefore, measures to improve material...
Sector / Industry:
- Food processing
Resources:
- Materials
- Waste
Costs, savings, and payback time:
High cost
Good practice
Sawmill optimises timber drying
Making the most of a heated situation
Finnish sawmill company improved its energy efficiency by 22 %
Major savings were achieved by investing in new continuous drying kilns and related heat recovery...
Sector / Industry:
- Timber and woodworking
Resources:
- Energy
Costs, savings, and payback time:
High cost 7 - 8 Year(s)
Technology
Oil-less compressors and compressed air as a service
Compressed air plays a major part in many industries and almost 13 % of all the industry-related electricity consumption goes towards generating compressed air. Traditional compressors use oil and...
Sector / Industry:
- All manufacturing industries
Resources:
- Energy
Costs, savings, and payback time:
Medium cost 50%
Technology
Oxy-fuel heating and direct flame...
Combustion needs fuel, ignition, and oxygen. Normal air contains only 21 % oxygen and most of the rest is nitrogen which is only ballast and has no part in combustion. Using pure oxygen increases...
Sector / Industry:
- Metal and plastic processing
Resources:
- Energy
- Carbon
Costs, savings, and payback time:
High cost
Tags:
Good practice
Fish manufacturer's no-waste approach
Not a single bone to waste...
Food-processing company introduces ambitious zero food-waste programme in its fish production
Company has also emphasised ecological packaging and managed to reduce...
Sector / Industry:
- Food processing
Resources:
- Materials
- Waste
Costs, savings, and payback time:
High cost
Good practice
Energy overhaul in a printing facility
Smart systems to control energy
Extensive energy efficiency renovation in printing plant including artificial intelligence to control the new systems
Modernisation of plant managed to significantly...
Sector / Industry:
- All manufacturing industries
Resources:
- Energy
- Carbon
Costs, savings, and payback time:
High cost 2 - 3 Year(s)
Good practice
Finnish grocery store's quick rewards from a...
Compact results
City market identifies a high percentage of unrecycled plastic
The results encouraged the store to invest in a compactor for plastic waste
In four months, several tonnes of plastic...
Sector / Industry:
- Wholesale and retail
Resources:
- Waste
Costs, savings, and payback time:
Medium cost 0 - 0.5 Year(s)
Good practice
Energy savings under the Italian sun with solar shading
From the industrial to the modern age...
Residential buildings with passive energy standard are built on an abandoned industrial site
The complex was built with natural construction materials...
Sector / Industry:
- Construction
Resources:
- Energy
- Carbon
Costs, savings, and payback time:
High cost