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In trying to achieve the ultimate goal of “Sustainable Manufacturing”, energy usage and management is extremely important and the UK is taking a leading role in developing the enabling technologies and techniques to achieve this. Energy efficiency has traditionally had a low priority in plastics processing due to the relatively low cost of energy compared to other costs such as materials and labour but this has changed dramatically in the past decade. In fact, a completely new set of rules are being applied to the sector and energy efficiency is now a major factor in management, machine purchases and operations...
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Research in various aspects of polymers, including their processing, has been carried out in the School of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering at Queen’s University, Belfast for over 25 years. During this time substantial investment has been made in establishing and maintaining state of the art processing and analytical facilities...
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All reductions in the use of energy and other resources will improve your company profitability £ for £, but before embarking on steps to change practices and cut waste etc it is essential that precise information confirming how and when energy is used is collected. Energy and other resource monitoring provides information that enables a user to cut operational costs through improved knowledge and analysis of how a site(s) uses electricity, gas, water and other resources...
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