Taking the next step to sustainability

• Furniture-maker goes a step further to boost its energy and resource efficiency
• Input-output analysis pinpoints hidden costs in production and beyond

Moretti Compact is one of the Italian market leaders in bedroom furniture production. The company had already invested in making its production more environmentally sustainable, but management was keen to go further.

How to top a scrap problem

• Component-maker employs TOP 20 to evaluate where energy and material gains could be made
• Targeted measures cut back on unrecovered scrap losses and identify new products

Stafer is an Italian company producing rolling shutter components with a staff of around 70 employees.

Three ways to lose money... one way to stop it

• TOP 20 analysis highlights significant material and energy losses in packaging manfacture
• Measures taken to improve boiler, insulate buildings and rethink production (design and technology)

FILL-PACK is a company operating in the Czech Republic with about 90 employees, producing packaging for automotive and electro-technical industries, as well as for agriculture.

The true value of data 

• TOP 20 analysis reveals a major disconnect between physical and financial operations
• New machinery and systems installed to counter material losses and improve energy management 

A TOP 20 input-output analysis was carried out in a furniture company from the Czech Republic to identify the potential for energy and material savings. The company produces metal and upholstered pieces for a range of applications and has about 50 employees.

Better results with better advice

The core goal of a waste-management system is to think of ways to improve a company's handling of non-product outputs (waste with zero or negative market value), and implement measures to minimise waste generation through more efficient use of resources or re-use of materials and to separate waste for recylcing. 

Older, more conventional sanitary installations can often easily be replaced by water-saving equipment. This cuts back on both fresh water consumption and sewage levels.

Any standard lighting system combines a lamp and a luminaire. Advances in technology have significantly improved the energy efficiency and performance of today’s lighting solutions.

Modernising lighting systems should be a priority refurbishment option, and offers several advantages:

Fresh light on the fine print

• A full lighting system refit made a big difference at August Koopmann
• Yearly savings of around 75 000 kWh in power, 67 % less!
• € 10 500 saved per year, and an ROI of 28 %

August Koopmann GmbH is a medium-sized printing company which prides itself on its quality in a competitive sector.

In a bid to improve its environment and overall offer, the German firm changed all the lighting in its 3 500 m2 production centre to energy efficient LED.

Rainwater and grey-water can be used instead of fresh-water in a number of applications, including toilet flushing, cleaning and irrigation, which reduces fresh- and waste-water volumes and corresponding costs.