18 CRISTINI
INDUSTRY NEWS
Pulp Paper & Logistics
Energy saving and process optimisation targets
Paper makers worldwide benefi t from the tools that reduce energy consumpti on and improve producti on at Italy’s Cristi ni. PPL’s Vince Maynard visited the company to fi nd out more
worldwide customer base to make conti nuous savings in their energy consumpti on was recently highlighted by its success in securing European Commission (EC) funding for an ‘eco- innovati on’ research project that could reap huge rewards. Chief executi ve of the
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increasingly diagnosti cs-focused fi ft h-generati on family-owned Italian fi rm, Giovanni Cristi ni is parti cularly proud of the achievement, and not just because it was amongst just a few of the almost 500 companies that applied to the EC who will benefi t from the contributi on to its research costs. During a visit by Pulp
January/February 2015
he commitment of press fabrics manufacturer Giuseppe Cristi ni SpA to enabling its
Paper & Logisti cs magazine to Cristi ni’s factory north of Bergamo, Giovanni explained the signifi cance of the EC’s recogniti on: “This is an innovati on- based project and from the some 486 initi al applicants Cristi ni was
one of the fi nal 36 selected. This is an invitati on based award and contributes to research costs but must clearly demonstrate the impact on the environment and the reducti on of emissions, water and energy consumpti on.”
The EC project, Advanced Sensing Technologies for Paper Producti on (ASTEPP), is precisely aligned with Cristi ni’s specialiti es and could potenti ally save the paper industry in Europe a huge percentage of its energy costs. This is outlined by Cristi ni’s own
Cristini products are used in the Pro Papier mill at Eisenhuttenstadt in Germany
fi gures. “If only 50 per cent of the European paper industry’s 1,300 machines installed a complete Cristi ni sensor system, the savings and advantages would be phenomenal,” he says. “Energy consumpti on would be reduced by around an eighth, or 12.8 per cent. The reducti on of 250 Kwh per tonne of paper adds up to the output of fi ve nuclear power plants. Water consumpti on for fabric cleaning would be reduced by 3.7 per cent, or the same amount that fl ows in Italy’s River Po in three months.”
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