Energy Management in manufacturing – Camfil case study
There is a good chance that, at this very moment, you are breathing clean air that has passed through a filter manufactured by Camfil. Their products can be found everywhere from offices to clean rooms for sensitive electronics production, schools, mines, factories, hospitals and nuclear power stations. The company’s filters are manufactured at 23 production plants across the world. In the UK the filters are manufactured in Lancashire in a 160,000 sq ft plant with more than 200 employees, a factory where the entire workforce is committed to managing and saving energy.
We invited Bill Wilkinson, Managing Director of Camfil UK to talk to us about ISO 50001 as a catalyst for growth and the benefits of effective energy management within a manufacturing environment.
Camfil certified to the ISO 14001 environmental management standard in 2000 and has continued to apply careful energy management, as well as monitor energy use and waste streams. The company leads by example and became the first UK manufacturer to achieve EN 16001, as well as the first organisation in the world to be awarded the BSI Kitemark in Energy Reduction Verification. In 2011 Camfil certified to ISO 50001.
Camfil reduced energy costs from £500,000 in 2008 to £300,000.
The company wanted to be seen practising what they promote, for example, their low energy air filters can help customers achieve a 25-50% saving in energy costs. This led to the launch of a corporate energy reduction programme, Camfil Energy Awareness Saves Environment (CEASE). The programme’s key objective was to educate property and building managers about the significant financial and energy saving opportunities that can be made by replacing existing air filters with low energy air filters – especially in light of the Federation of European Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning Association estimate that savings of up to £500 million could be made in the UK alone.
The company established basic management systems for reporting monthly energy consumption across gas, electricity and logistics – including air leak detection surveys and thermal imaging cameras, as well as an online toolkit to monitor progress and calculate savings made.
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