Sustainability Report 2023
The sustainability report summarises all efforts in a holistic strategy and underlines the importance of the topic in the plastics industry.
The sustainability report summarises all efforts in a holistic strategy and underlines the importance of the topic in the plastics industry.
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Sustainable Focus Areas / 05/ Environment<br />
ENGEL<br />
<strong>Sustainability</strong> <strong>Report</strong> <strong>2023</strong><br />
We have therefore broken this chapter down<br />
into two sections: the emissions caused by the<br />
machines used by customers – downstream<br />
emissions – and the measures to reduce energy<br />
consumption and emissions at ENGEL’s<br />
own production plants – own emissions.<br />
Downstream emissions*<br />
ENGEL is continuously working on increasing<br />
the benefit for our customers, i.e. an improved<br />
or at least consistent quality of the final product,<br />
process stability, and the option to use a<br />
higher content of recycled materials, while at<br />
the same time reducing the customer’s energy<br />
consumption. ENGEL is proud of its achievement<br />
to continuously reduce the energy consumption<br />
of its machines over the past years<br />
as a result of the company’s technological innovations<br />
and advanced developments.<br />
Only ten years ago, a standard hydraulic<br />
machine without servo hydraulics was considered<br />
state-of-the-art technology. Today’s standard,<br />
which is installed in almost all ENGEL<br />
machines, is a servo hydraulic system that saves<br />
40 percent of energy in comparison to the original<br />
machine.<br />
A machine with all optimisation options installed<br />
can even save more than 55 percent of the<br />
energy consumed by the hydraulic machines from<br />
ten years ago. Most of these options are part of<br />
the digital product portfolio related to the optimisation<br />
of mould temperature control. The above<br />
figures are based on measurements obtained<br />
for the production of an identical part from the<br />
same material and with the same cycle time.<br />
Customers may individually select their preferred<br />
optimisation steps. ENGEL therefore offers<br />
its customers consulting for energy optimisation.<br />
Energy consumption compared<br />
1.<br />
12,890 kwh/h<br />
2.<br />
7,758 kwh/h<br />
3.<br />
5,700 kwh/h<br />
0<br />
5,000 10,000 15,000<br />
1. Standard hydraulic machine / 2. Standard hydraulic machine with servo hydraulics / 3. Standard hydraulic machine with servo hydraulics<br />
and further optimisation measures<br />
* Downstream emissions = Energy consumption and emissions from the use of ENGEL machines<br />
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