Energy Activities, continued

Amcor - Monitoring Energy Use

Amcor has introduced a nationally consistent database to monitory energy use at its 55 Australian sites.

The company's database is a key component of a comprehensive energy-efficiency program, with Amcor aiming to cut energy use by 10 per cent off 1998 levels by 2005. Energy audits will be conducted over the next two years.

The company has also rolled out training modules to its site managers and hopes to eventually expand the database to consistently monitor water use and waste generation at its facilities.

Kimberly-Clark - Reducing energy use

In 1996 Kimberly-Clark committed to reduce its emissions of greenhouse gases (carbon dioxide) by 11.5 per cent per tonne of product in 2000 relative to its emissions in 1994. By 1999, it had achieved an 11.4 per cent reduction relative to 1994.

Some key initiatives in reducing energy use included:

• Automated bark burning;
• Improving operating efficiency by increasing production, thereby reducing the number of machine stop-starts, idle times and warm-ups;
• Steam management by improving the boiler system to achieve a more efficient use of fossil fuel to produce steam, and
• Use of plantation timber. This uses less energy in processing because the cellulose fibres are not so tightly bound and are more readily extractable from the wood of younger trees. This will mean shorter processing/cooking time and less energy to make paper. Plantations also absorb carbon dioxide and release oxygen during photosynthesis.
  

  

   

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