Process Premier Award 2008 sponsored by E.ON
Presented at The Lincoln Centre, London on 30 June 2008 by Pat McFadden Minister of State for Employment Relations and Postal Affairs.
Agfa Graphics Ltd
Raw material and energy use reduction
As part of Agfa Graphics' on-going worldwide programme to reduce environmental impact and costs, Agfa Graphics Leeds undertook a wide variety of initiatives. These initiatives have dramatically reduced energy, water and raw material use, and virtually eliminated the creation of landfill waste from the site. The key innovation in the effluent sub-project was to look holistically at the environmental and cost impact of the effluent treatment system. In so doing, the company realised that by investing in new automated equipment and using a more expensive neutralisation process (with caustic soda instead of lime), it could improve its environmental performance by virtually eliminating landfill and thereby saving on effluent/waste costs. In the gas-use-reduction sub-project, the innovation was to recognise that the waste heat from one process (previously all vented to atmosphere) could be substantially and relatively easily recycled into another process, thereby significantly reducing gas consumption.
www.agfa.com/uk
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