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The electrification of industrial production is a huge opportunity. With the containerised solution developed by Actemium, we could electrify industrial facilities everywhere, because of the price but also because the solution is easy to implement. One or two containers ready to be connected to the electrical grid, and the factory could be delivered relatively quickly.
A PULP MANUFACTURER REDUCES ITS CARBON FOOTPRINT WITH ACTEMIUM
In Norway, an Actemium company that specialises in industrial performance is helping Vafos Pulp convert its heating system using a unique, simple and economical decarbonisation solution.
Vafos Pulp AS, a company with a 150-year history, produces unbleached paper pulp used in particular to manufacture cardboard and exports 95% of its production to Europe, with Germany as its main market. In order to drastically reduce its carbon footprint, the company decided to turn away from fuel oil and equip its mill in Kragerø, Norway, with a new electric heating system. The solution came from Actemium, the VINCI Energies brand that offers solutions and services to industry, which designed and built two switchboard cabinets that were pre-fitted in containers in its workshops. They were equipped with all the required electrical distribution equipment and the containers were delivered to the site, ready to be plugged in. The whole process took just seven weeks. This simple and cost-effective solution saved Vafos Pulp AS from having to add a dedicated building.
It is the first time such a solution is implemented in Europe, and it opens up genuine opportunities as industrial production facilities strive to meet the European Union’s target of zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050.
7 Number of weeks needed to switch this manufacturing facility’s heating system from fuel oil to electricity thanks to a solution provided by Actemium.