Since March 2006 a lot of work has been carried out at Bandvulc to help reduce its utilities’ consumption.
As far as electricity is concerned, general work has been carried out on the compressors (ducting, overall pressure reduction, leak audits); all factory luminaries have been replaced with lights 5 times more efficient; investigations and trials on fitting inverters and soft-starts to motors have also been carried out.
With regards to gas saving, further insulation has been fitted (boiler, presses and condensate tank) and a heat recovery unit has been installed to pre-heat the boiler feedwater. To reduce water consumption, electronically controlled urinal flush controls and percussion taps have been fitted, we have also investigated the possibility of water harvesting.
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