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A Canadian coffee producer needed lower-cost odor control and added capacity as its thermal oxidizer reached end of life.

A plate heat exchanger was integrated into a recuperative oxidizer to recover roaster exhaust heat.

Coffee roasters, food processors, and industrial sites using thermal oxidizers for odor or emissions control.

Frederikshavn Ice Rink needed to reduce dehumidifier regeneration energy while maintaining humidity control across two arenas.

Regeneration-air preheaters using compressor waste heat and an energy-recovery purge were added to recycle regeneration heat.

Ice rinks, sports venues, leisure buildings, and cold indoor facilities using desiccant dehumidification.

Birmingham Airport needed to restore a failed terminal check-in AHU while reducing energy use and operational disruption.

Old AHU fans were replaced with an array of five high-efficiency EC centrifugal plug fans.

Airports, transport hubs, large commercial buildings, and facilities with aging air handling units.

The manufacturer needed VOC destruction for paint operations without high RTO operating costs and fan electricity use.

A zeolite rotor concentrator reduced exhaust volume before regenerative thermal oxidation, lowering operating energy demand.

Aerospace, automotive, coatings, electronics, and industrial finishing operations with VOC-abatement systems.

Battery research required low-dewpoint conditions without excessive reactivation heater energy consumption.

A desiccant dehumidification system with internal heat-recovery purge reduced reactivation heater power for dry-room operation.

Battery laboratories, battery manufacturers, electronics producers, and research facilities needing dry-room environments.

Vermont Marble needed to reuse combustion-turbine exhaust energy for spray-dryer heating.

80%-efficient gas-to-gas plate heat exchangers were supplied to recover energy from two combustion turbines.

Industrial manufacturers, construction-materials producers, and sites with turbines, dryers, or high-temperature exhaust.

IKEA needed efficient year-round ventilation, cooling, and heating while maximizing renewable district-energy use.

Desiccant cooling recycled outgoing-air heat in winter and used district-heating waste heat for summer cooling.

Large retailers, shopping centers, commercial buildings, and district-energy customers with HVAC energy loads.

Liège Airport needed to modernize terminal climate-control units and reduce electricity consumption.

Extraction units were upgraded and a fan unit was replaced with optimized high-efficiency fan technology.

Airports, terminals, commercial buildings, and infrastructure facilities with aging AHU or extraction-fan systems.

The ice rink needed to reduce regeneration energy demand from two dehumidifiers in a broader optimization program.

Regeneration-air preheaters and an energy-recovery purge were added to recycle heat within the dehumidification process.

Ice rinks, sports venues, leisure buildings, and cold indoor facilities using desiccant dehumidification.

British Sugar needed additional energy savings from dehumidification equipment after optimizing production processes.

A 3 kW AC process-air fan was replaced with a 1.6 kW EC fan retrofit.

Sugar producers, food manufacturers, and process plants using dehumidifiers, conveyors, or silo climate control.

Cernelle’s older dehumidifier lacked efficient operating modes and created unnecessary energy cost.

The older unit was replaced with a high-efficiency desiccant dehumidifier using ventilation mode, remote operation, and heat recovery.

Pharmaceutical, healthcare, laboratory, and process facilities requiring reliable low-humidity operation.

Supermarket refrigeration condensers struggled with high ambient temperatures and inefficient fan operation.

Evaporative precooling was installed on condensers to reduce temperature, pressure, and energy demand.

Supermarkets, food retailers, cold-chain sites, and commercial refrigeration operators in hot climates.

Reservoir buildings were consuming excessive electricity for heating while controlling humidity and corrosion.

Desiccant dehumidifiers were installed to replace heating-based moisture control in reservoir buildings.

Water utilities, reservoir operators, pumping stations, and unmanned infrastructure buildings needing corrosion control.

Tyson needed to eliminate overhead condensation in poultry processing without adding inefficient manual controls.

Ammonia cooling and desiccant dehumidification were installed with a patented internal heat-recovery purge.

Poultry, meat, seafood, dairy, and chilled food-processing facilities with sanitation and condensation challenges.

Shaw’s frozen loading dock suffered humidity infiltration, frost buildup, frequent defrosting, and unsafe wet floors.

Desiccant dehumidification systems dried loading-dock air and reduced refrigeration defrost cycles.

Cold-storage warehouses, frozen-food distribution centers, supermarkets, and refrigerated logistics operators.

Potato drying required high energy input while RTO exhaust carried recoverable waste heat.

Stainless-steel heat recovery exchangers were supplied to preheat clean dryer make-up air using RTO waste gas.

Food processors, drying operations, and industrial plants with hot exhaust streams and make-up air demand.

P&C Foods faced high humidity, defrost load, anti-sweat heater demand, and inefficient refrigerated display cases.

Desiccant dehumidification reduced latent refrigeration load, defrost cycles, and anti-sweat heater runtime.

Supermarkets, cold-chain retailers, food distributors, and facilities with refrigerated display or storage areas.

The manufacturer was exhausting 350°F curing-oven air and losing recoverable process heat.

An air-to-air plate heat exchanger was installed to reclaim heat from the powder-coating curing oven.

Machinery, equipment, automotive, and metal-products manufacturers operating heat-intensive coating or curing processes.

The data center generated large volumes of waste heat while needing efficient cooling for server halls.

Indirect evaporative cooling captured server-hall heat and transferred it to a central heat-pump facility.

Data centers, district-heating operators, utilities, and large digital infrastructure owners with recoverable waste heat.

InovisCoat needed to reduce high dehumidification energy demand in precision coating production.

An internal heat-recovery purge retrofit was installed, and the dehumidifiers were converted from steam to gas regeneration.

Coating, film, paper, chemical, and humidity-sensitive manufacturing sites using desiccant dehumidification.

Carletti’s older hot-air ventilation process used high energy and created long drying times for chocolate products.

Four dehumidifiers replaced hot-air ventilation to supply controlled dry air for color, polish, and drying processes.

Food manufacturers, confectionery producers, and process industries with humidity-sensitive drying operations.

Heathrow needed major HVAC energy reduction across terminal infrastructure while keeping passenger-facing climate systems reliable.

More than 150 AHUs were upgraded with around 500 EC fans after energy logging and calculations.

Airports, transport hubs, large commercial buildings, and infrastructure operators with energy-intensive ventilation systems.

Liquid Wind needed to scale CO₂-neutral fuel for fossil-heavy marine shipping.

AFRY provided basic engineering for FlagshipTWO, converting renewable electricity and biogenic CO₂ into electrofuel.

Marine fuel, shipping, power-to-X and renewable-fuel producers.

Turku needed a new wastewater discharge pipe with lower construction impact.

AFRY compared construction methods and supported micro-tunnelling/TBM design to reduce emissions.

Wastewater utilities, tunnelling projects and municipal infrastructure.

Nordic Paper needed to replace a legacy MES and harmonise planning across mills.

AFRY implemented PaperLine as a scalable MES platform with ongoing support.

Pulp and paper mills digitising production planning and execution.

ICON Växjö needed efficient technical systems across hotel, office, school, leisure and residential spaces.

AFRY delivered ventilation, heating, sanitation, energy simulations and energy balance calculations.

Arenas, mixed-use buildings and leisure real estate with complex indoor-climate needs.

BaseCamp wanted student housing that delivered social and environmental benefits.

AFRY handled groundworks, structural engineering and energy, ventilation, water and sewage systems.

Student housing, residential developers and mixed-use real estate projects.

LEAG needed to store surplus wind and solar energy while keeping power supply flexible.

AFRY supported concept optimisation, permitting and EPC tendering for the Boxberg Power-to-X plant.

Utilities, renewable developers and hydrogen infrastructure projects.

Akademiska Hus wanted a building project that challenged conventional construction sustainability.

AFRY supported HVAC, plumbing, energy coordination, solar cell design and acoustics.

Offices, campuses and property developers testing sustainable building methods.

JLEN needed technical confidence before acquiring a large biomass CHP plant.

AFRY provided buy-side technical due diligence covering risks, optimisation and financial-model inputs.

Biomass CHP investors, renewable power operators and infrastructure funds.

UPM needed to recover sludge from recycled newsprint production through combustion.

AFRY delivered EPCM engineering for an 85 MWth / 20 MWe biomass CHP plant.

Paper mills, biomass CHP plants and industrial sites with process steam demand.

Metsä Board needed to move its Husum mill toward carbon neutrality by 2030.

AFRY provided design and engineering for a new recovery boiler and turbine investment.

Paper, board and forest-products mills replacing fossil energy.

Metsä Fibre needed a world-class bioproduct mill using renewable, efficient processes.

AFRY provided multidisciplinary engineering and project management from studies to construction.

Pulp, paper and bioproduct mills using renewable raw materials.

RPC Trelleborg needed secure facilities with very low operating energy demand.

AFRY coordinated technical systems, airflow monitoring, solar, wind and efficient building services.

Healthcare, high-security and public buildings pursuing plus-energy performance.

Vantaa Energy needed a waste-to-energy plant that maximised output while reducing CO₂ emissions.

AFRY supported EIA, permits, engineering, procurement and construction management services.

Waste-to-energy, district heating and urban energy utilities.

cReal needed to move oat-based ingredient production from development to commercial scale.

AFRY supported engineering from installation to commissioning for the new commercial facility.

Plant-based food, ingredient and future-food producers.

TINE needed a future-ready dairy cleaning system with stable, efficient operations.

AFRY delivered process, electrical, automation and 3D engineering for a new CIP central.

Dairy and food plants using cleaning-in-place systems.

Kungälv needed a preschool built to high energy-efficiency and sustainability standards.

AFRY designed LED lighting with daylight sensors, presence detectors and rooftop solar power.

Schools, preschools and public buildings pursuing efficient electrical design.

SBB needed more reliable rail power from an ageing hydropower generator setup.

AFRY acted as owner’s engineer for generator replacement and related hydropower modifications.

Hydropower plants, rail power networks and renewable electricity operators.

Arauco needed to build a world-scale pulp mill with sustainable and efficient operations.

AFRY is delivering EPCM for balance-of-plant systems across the new greenfield pulp mill.

Pulp, paper and forest-products producers building large industrial sites.

Ardagh needed new glass and metal packaging factories built around stricter sustainability criteria.

AFRY provided engineering, supply management and environmental impact support for the new complex.

Glass, metal packaging and industrial manufacturing sites.

Drupps needed to scale a system that turns atmospheric water vapour into clean drinking water.

AFRY helped develop a circular hygroscopic-fluid system that captures, vaporises and condenses water.

Water utilities, remote infrastructure and water-stressed regions.

The customer needed to validate an automated intralogistics expansion before costly bottlenecks occurred.

AFRY built a detailed simulation model to test flows, capacity, scheduling and system configuration.

Manufacturing, intralogistics and automated production sites.

Boliden needed to expand zinc production while reducing already low carbon intensity.

AFRY provided engineering and site services for the Green Zinc Odda smelter expansion.

Metals, mining and smelting operations expanding lower-carbon production.

Basis 57 needed a local, circular fish-farming model with lower environmental impact.

AFRY helped design a land-based fish farm using tempered mountain water from a railway tunnel.

Aquaculture, food producers and water-intensive circular production sites.

TINE needed to expand dairy capacity after production outgrew ageing equipment.

AFRY upgraded process solutions for a modern cheese line using best-practice efficiency design.

Dairy and food producers expanding energy-intensive process lines.

Tornet wanted to link flexible energy systems with resident behaviour to minimise housing emissions.

AFRY used Sustainability Scanning and multidisciplinary digital solutions for Tallbohov Electric Village.

Residential real estate, housing developers and smart-community projects.

Skövde needed a highly efficient paediatric and maternity centre with strict indoor-climate needs.

AFRY designed HVAC, controls and monitoring, and coordinated energy analyses for the building.

Hospitals, healthcare buildings and public facilities with strict climate-control requirements.

Fortum needed fossil-free district heat as coal is phased out in Finland.

AFRY delivered EPCM services for heat recovery plants using Microsoft data-centre waste heat.

District heating, utilities and data-centre operators with recoverable waste heat.

Smurfit Kappa needed higher paper output while improving production efficiency and sustainability.

AFRY provided project management and detailed engineering for a PM2 press-section rebuild.

Paper, board and packaging mills modernising production lines.

AFRY’s Malmö office needed better workplace lighting while reducing electricity demand.

Light Bureau used LED technology and variable lighting design to improve comfort and reduce energy use.

Offices, commercial buildings and workplaces upgrading lighting systems.

St1 needed to find further savings at its Gothenburg seaport depot after earlier efficiency actions.

AFRY performed an energy audit, identifying building-management, ventilation, heating and operational optimisation measures.

Fuel depots, terminals, harbours and logistics sites with energy-intensive operations.

AB Ludvig Svensson had high energy use and needed a structured long-term efficiency programme.

AFRY ran an energy cooperation covering audits, optimisation, LED lighting, steam-system improvements and insulation.

Textile, industrial and manufacturing facilities with high utility demand.

Roman Brewery needed to modernize its brewhouse while preserving product quality and reducing energy use.

GEA installed a COMPACT-STAR® brewhouse with energy recovery and process optimization.

Breweries and beverage producers modernizing energy-intensive brewing processes.

innocent needed a highly efficient production site to support its carbon-neutral factory ambition.

GEA provided process and plant technology for efficient juice production at the new facility.

Juice, beverage and liquid food producers building low-carbon factories.

Islington needed cheaper, lower-carbon heat for homes and public buildings.

GEA installed a heat pump that captures waste heat from the London Underground.

District heating, municipal energy and urban infrastructure projects.

Apoldaer was losing energy through unstable wort boiling and inefficient thermal operation.

GEA added IWM+ software and optimized energy recovery in the brewing process.

Breweries and beverage producers looking to optimize brewhouse energy use.

Strömvallen needed to modernize its ice rink refrigeration system while increasing cooling capacity and lowering operating costs.

GEA installed Grasso M screw compressor packages using ammonia refrigerant, supported by Omni controls and remote monitoring.

Ice rinks, leisure venues and facilities with large refrigeration systems.

Lemgo needed to expand low-carbon district heat using local renewable and waste heat sources.

GEA supplied heat pumps using wastewater, CHP waste heat and river heat.

Municipal utilities and district heating networks using wastewater or ambient heat.

BENEO needed efficient ingredient processing with lower utility demand.

GEA supplied evaporation and process technologies, including speed-controlled equipment.

Ingredient, starch, sugar and food-processing plants.

Wolf ButterBack needed to expand frozen pastry production while keeping cooling reliable, efficient and aligned with its net-zero goals.

GEA installed three ammonia-based BluX chiller units with CompaX compressors and Omni control for flexible part-load cooling.

Bakeries, frozen food producers and cold-chain facilities with variable refrigeration demand.

Spendrups needed to reduce dependence on externally supplied liquid CO₂ while cutting costs.

GEA installed CO₂ recovery technology to capture, purify and reuse fermentation CO₂ within the brewery.

Breweries and beverage producers using CO₂ in production or packaging.

SnowWorld needed to reduce energy use for snowmaking while also heating the building efficiently.

GEA installed Grasso M-series refrigeration with a Grasso 65HP heat pump as an add-on to recover and reuse heat.

Snow parks, ice venues and leisure facilities with cooling and heating demand.

MMPA needed more stable spray dryer performance despite operator variability and changing production conditions.

GEA installed OptiPartner® advanced process control to monitor dryer conditions and continuously optimize operation.

Dairy and powder-processing plants using spray drying lines.

Mokate needed to expand coffee and ingredient powder production while improving energy efficiency and reducing the carbon footprint of drying operations.

GEA installed three FILTERMAT® spray dryers with efficient heat recovery systems that recycle waste heat and reduce energy use.

Coffee, beverage and food ingredient producers using spray drying or powder-processing lines.

Schwarz IT needed reliable and sustainable cooling for a large data center.

GEA supplied ammonia chillers to support the site’s river-water cooling concept.

Data centers and mission-critical facilities with high cooling demand.

Godden Food needed efficient refrigeration for a new cold store while minimizing energy use.

GEA installed a low-charge ammonia refrigeration system using V compressors.

Cold storage, food distribution and refrigerated logistics facilities.

Naarmann wanted to reduce cooling water consumption in its separator operation.

GEA installed a compact centrifuge water-saving unit to reduce cooling water use.

Dairy, beverage and food producers using separator-based processes.

Quorn’s refrigeration system was ageing, inefficient and limiting production capacity.

GEA retrofitted the system with a compressor conversion kit and Omni controls.

Food producers with existing refrigeration systems needing efficiency upgrades.

Thialf needed to lower energy costs and modernize refrigeration for its ice arena.

GEA supplied NH₃ chillers and an efficient refrigeration system for the venue.

Ice arenas, leisure facilities and large refrigeration users.

Bidfood needed to expand cold storage capacity without increasing energy intensity.

GEA installed an energy-efficient ammonia refrigeration system with heat recovery for efficient cold storage.

Cold storage, food distribution and refrigerated logistics facilities.

Gateshead needed a lower-carbon heat source for its district energy network.

GEA installed two ammonia heat pumps that extract heat from mine water.

Municipal utilities and district heating networks using local heat sources.

2 Sisters needed to reduce fuel use for hot water and improve refrigeration efficiency.

GEA integrated cooling, ventilation and heat recovery into the production site.

Meat, poultry and cold-chain food plants with high hot-water demand.

Intermalt needed efficient cooling while reducing fossil-fuel-based heating demand.

GEA installed refrigeration and heat pump technology to combine cooling with heat recovery.

Breweries, maltings and grain processors with heating and cooling loads.

Mars needed to reuse waste heat and reduce natural gas consumption at its production site.

GEA installed a customized ammonia heat pump system to recover and reuse process heat.

Food, confectionery and process plants with recoverable waste heat.

E.ON needed to supply renewable district heat while reducing fossil-fuel use in Malmö.

GEA installed four ammonia heat pumps using sewage and waste heat as energy sources.

District heating operators and urban energy networks using waste heat.

Wipasz needed efficient cooling, ventilation and hot water generation for poultry processing.

GEA installed an integrated ammonia refrigeration system with heat recovery.

Meat, poultry and chilled food processors with simultaneous heating and cooling needs.

Nuttelex needed a scalable plant-based beverage process with efficient heating, cleaning and automation.

GEA built a process line using heat recovery, automation and clean-in-place systems.

Plant-based beverage, aseptic food and liquid food producers.

innocent needed a new juice production facility designed around low-carbon and resource-efficient operations.

GEA supported the factory with process technology for efficient juice production and plant operation.

Juice, beverage and liquid food producers building efficient greenfield plants.

A dairy spray drying line needed to identify practical ways to reduce thermal energy demand and emissions.

GEA carried out a holistic energy audit and identified six energy-saving measures.

Dairy, food and powder-processing plants looking for decarbonization roadmaps.

Arla needed to reduce natural gas use in spray drying without disrupting production.

GEA installed a tailor-made AddCool® high-temperature heat pump system.

Dairy and powder-processing plants with energy-intensive drying operations.

Aurivo needed to expand dairy processing capacity while reducing reliance on fossil-fuel steam and cutting site energy costs.

GEA integrated refrigeration, heat pumps, and pasteurization systems.

Dairy and liquid food processors.

Nestlé needed to decarbonize energy-intensive milk powder production.

GEA integrated heat recovery and heat pumps into the spray dryer line.

Dairy, infant nutrition and powder-processing plants.

Tallinn needed secure district heating while reducing reliance on fossil fuels.

GEA supplied four large ammonia heat pumps using screw-compressor technology.

Utilities, district heating operators and urban energy networks replacing fossil heal.

Dan Kaffe’s 25-year-old freeze concentration plant had become complex, maintenance-heavy and energy-intensive, while the company needed to preserve premium coffee quality.

GEA installed a bespoke IceCon® crystallizer with pre-cooling, reusing existing wash columns to boost efficiency.

Coffee, beverage, dairy and food producers using concentration processes.

A major NYC convention center needed on-site renewable generation through an innovative financing model.

Rooftop solar farm and microgrid system delivered through an Energy-as-a-Service contract.

Convention centers, large commercial venues, and public infrastructure pursuing on-site renewable generation.

A Spanish municipal water utility needed to modernize wastewater and pumping operations with less manual effort.

Siemens digital solutions modernized wastewater and pumping operations with automation and monitoring.

Water utilities, wastewater treatment plants, and municipal infrastructure with pumping operations.

Servo-hydraulic automotive test systems consumed excessive energy and risked oil leaks with lower precision.

Siemens supplied SINAMICS S120 servo drives, SIMATIC controllers, and liquid-cooled motors via TIA Portal.

Automotive testing labs, aerospace test facilities, and industrial R&D using durability or vibration test rigs.

The high-volume SIMATIC plant needed to reach net-zero while increasing output as Siemens’ Customer Zero showcase.

Digital energy dashboard, factory digital twin, AI waste sorting, reusable ESD packaging, and Sigreen Web.

Electronics manufacturers, discrete manufacturing plants, and high-volume production sites pursuing net-zero.

Cooling lubricant pump infrastructure was inefficient with no data-driven visibility into equipment performance.

Siemens deployed SINAMICS G120C drives with Drivetrain Analyzer Edge via Industrial Edge over PROFINET.

Manufacturing facilities with pump, fan, and motor-driven infrastructure needing edge-based monitoring.

Old motors driving gas compressors at an industrial gas producer were significantly less efficient than IE4 alternatives.

Siemens installed two SIMOTICS SD Performance Line IE4 motors on gas compressor drives.

Industrial gas producers, chemical plants, and operations with continuously running compressor motors.

Europe’s largest sugar producer had energy waste at the secondary fan in the Zeitz plant’s energy control center.

Siemens installed SINAMICS drives funded through Energy Performance Contracting via Siemens Financial Services.

Sugar plants, food and beverage processors, and process industries with energy-intensive fan and pump loads.

Forvia needed to reduce energy consumption, achieve ISO 50001, and gain visibility across 250+ data points.

Siemens deployed SIMATIC Energy Manager PRO with batch analysis and continuous monitoring.

Automotive suppliers, tier-1 manufacturers, and multi-site industrial operations pursuing ISO 50001.

The dairy needed to decarbonize obsolete fuel oil steam generation while managing growth and rising energy costs.

Siemens installed a hybrid steam boiler with cloud-based energy analytics on the Siemens Xcelerator platform.

Dairies, breweries, and food and beverage processors with steam-intensive operations and decarbonization needs.

A 4,600-employee generator manufacturing site faced cost pressure and needed to exploit existing energy-saving potential.

Energy analysis with cogeneration, optimized heat distribution, LED lighting, Desigo CC, and metering concept.

Heavy manufacturing, generator and turbine plants, and large industrial campuses with cogeneration potential.

Factory energy planning was slow and lacked simulation, blocking Mercedes-Benz’s 100% renewable production goal.

Siemens and Mercedes-Benz built a Digital Energy Twin to simulate building, equipment, and energy systems.

Automotive plants, food and beverage factories, and large-scale greenfield or brownfield production sites.

Industrial paint-shop tunnels consumed excessive energy through inefficient ventilation operation in coating processes.

Siemens industrial automation and energy monitoring delivered targeted ventilation system interventions.

Automotive paint shops, surface treatment, and manufacturing operations with energy-intensive ventilation.

BMW needed to optimize EV motor production for energy efficiency without additional hardware investments.

Siemens simulation technology optimized production process workflows in EV motor manufacturing lines.

Automotive OEMs, EV producers, and discrete manufacturers planning energy-aware production processes.

Starwood’s thermal oil pumps consumed excessive power during energy-intensive continuous pressing operations.

Siemens installed SINAMICS G120 VFDs with PLC, SCADA, and smart temperature-control software.

Panelboard producers, pulp and paper mills, and process plants with thermal or motor-driven systems.

A semiconductor plant needed chiller efficiency gains without shutdown windows or production impact.

Siemens installed 56 VFDs on chiller pumps and fans with custom controls under an Energy Performance Contract.

Semiconductor fabs, electronics plants, pharmaceutical sites, and data centers with large chiller plants.

The 110,000 sq ft LEED Gold HQ had legacy lighting waste and recommissioning opportunities to demonstrate.

IoT smart lighting, Desigo CC, building recommissioning, Smartflower microgrid, and Building X platform.

Corporate offices, campus headquarters, and commercial buildings pursuing LEED and integrated sustainability.

A 1,300-store closeout retailer faced rising energy and maintenance costs with no enterprise-wide asset visibility.

Siemens Site Controls with web-based reporting, real-time asset monitoring, and Intelligent Load Management.

Discount retailers, grocery chains, restaurants, and any multi-site commercial operation.

The Environmental Science building’s heat recovery chiller was inefficient, increasing natural gas use without disrupting campus.

Existing Building Commissioning fine-tuned operations, setpoints, and controls with utility partner collaboration.

Universities, campuses, and institutional building portfolios with legacy heat recovery and HVAC systems.

The hospital needed digitalized building operations to reduce alarms and improve sustainability without disrupting care.

Siemens Building Management platform and Siveillance Suite with AI-powered fault detection and predictive maintenance.

Hospitals, clinics, senior care, and laboratories needing centralized building, security, and energy management.

Lindner’s automated HVAC had hidden inefficiencies and only monthly meter readings, with energy contracts expiring.

Siemens deployed Desigo PX, Building Performance Optimization remote service, and the Advantage Operation Center.

Hotels, resorts, conference centers, and hospitality groups with centralized BMS and remote service needs.

Orem’s aging buildings, pneumatic controls, sodium streetlights, and data center CRACs were inefficient and costly.

Siemens delivered LED streetlights, APOGEE BAS, VFDs, envelope upgrades, and data center cooling under an ESPC.

Municipalities, public buildings, school districts, and government facilities with aging infrastructure.

Michaels’ 1,000+ stores had inconsistent HVAC and lighting settings with no enterprise-wide visibility into energy consumption.

Siemens deployed Site Controls EMS with IoT sensors, CO₂ detection, digital thermostats, and cloud monitoring across stores.

Multi-site retail chains, restaurants, and commercial portfolios with distributed HVAC and lighting assets.

The hospital faced high energy bills and demand penalties without asset-level visibility into energy waste.

Two Eniscope devices and virtual energy management monitored high-load hospital equipment minute by minute.

Hospitals, commercial buildings, laundries, kitchens, and energy-intensive sites with high-load equipment.

The Tallinn–Stockholm ferry Baltic Queen needed to improve fuel efficiency, lower emissions and reduce underwater noise on its passenger route.

Replacement of the vessel’s propeller blades with new innovative ones designed by Kongsberg Maritime Sweden tailored to its operational profile.

Ferry operators, cruise lines, cargo shipping, and any vessel owner planning hull or propeller upgrades.

A multinational dairy producer needed to accelerate net-zero progress but capex constraints kept delaying energy-efficiency investments at sites in Belgium, the Netherlands and Germany.

27 efficiency projects delivered as Energy-as-a-Service by ESCO ENCORE Efficiency with Solas Capital funding, including efficient compressed air and heat recovery.

Dairy and food producers, beverage makers, and any energy-intensive manufacturer wanting off-balance-sheet efficiency financing.

A multinational dairy producer needed to accelerate net-zero progress but capex constraints kept delaying energy-efficiency investments at sites in Belgium, the Netherlands and Germany.

27 efficiency projects delivered as Energy-as-a-Service by ESCO ENCORE Efficiency with Solas Capital funding, including efficient compressed air and heat recovery.

Dairy and food producers, beverage makers, and any energy-intensive manufacturer wanting off-balance-sheet efficiency financing.

The property needed to reduce grid reliance while making better use of existing parking space.

A solar carport with battery storage and EV charging facilities was designed and installed.

Commercial properties, real estate sites, and organizations with parking areas suitable for solar generation.

SEI, Mantova’s district-heating operator, needed more flexibility and storage capacity without the cost and risk of building physical thermal stores.

Gradyent Digital Twin platform enabling virtual thermal storage, demand forecasting and supply optimisation across the district heating network.

District heating operators, multi-utilities, and energy retailers managing complex thermal networks.

Motors ran continuously without active load, wasting electricity and increasing mechanical wear at the IPEL Indaial paper plant in Santa Catarina.

VFDs and dedicated automation adjusted motor speed and process parameters to real production demand across the paper line.

Paper manufacturers and energy-intensive production sites with motor-driven pumps or process equipment.

Taarnby municipality needed competitively priced, environmentally friendly heating and cooling integrating surplus heat from a nearby wastewater plant.

Danfoss VLT drives controlling pumps and compressors across an integrated district heating, cooling and surplus-heat-recovery system.

District heating and cooling utilities, municipalities, and large mixed-use developments with shared thermal infrastructure.

Compressed-air generation was a major cost driver in Brugola’s automotive-fastener manufacturing operations across its Lombardy plants.

Efficient compressors, LED lighting, oil recovery, grid-surge management and compressor heat recovery rolled out across plant operations.

Automotive suppliers and manufacturers using compressed air, process heat, or energy-intensive production equipment.

Aurubis needed to lift the temperature of concentrated sulphuric acid by 50°C to feed Hamburg HafenCity’s district heating network without corrosion failures.

Eight customised Alfa Laval plate heat exchangers, including three semi-welded D-205 Hastelloy units for highly corrosive intermediate absorption towers.

Smelters, refineries, chemical producers, and any heavy industry with high-grade waste heat near district heating networks.

Rio Tinto wanted to cut vessel fuel use and CO₂ emissions by reducing friction between hulls and water across its bulk carrier fleet.

Alfa Laval OceanGlide fluidic air lubrication creates an efficient air layer along the hull to cut drag with no major structural retrofits.

Bulk shipping, container shipping, tankers, and ferry operators looking for retrofit-friendly fuel-saving technologies.

Preem’s refining process was highly energy-intensive and traditional shell-and-tube heat exchangers fouled often, lowering efficiency and uptime.

A single Alfa Laval Compabloc welded plate heat exchanger replaced four shell-and-tube units in the atmospheric distillation process.

Oil refineries, petrochemical plants, and energy-intensive processors with high-fouling heat-exchange duties.

Meta wanted to maximise the efficiency of its Odense data centre and recycle vast server waste heat to help the local utility phase out fossil fuels.

Hyper-efficient hardware, indirect evaporative cooling, renewable wind energy, and heat-recovery infrastructure with industrial ammonia heat pumps.

Data centres, hyperscalers, and district heating operators able to capture and repurpose waste heat.

The maritime industry needed reliable methanol-handling systems to support decarbonisation and a shift away from heavy fuel oil.

Alfa Laval FCM Methanol low-flashpoint fuel-supply system, with over 450,000 hours of sea operation across the installed fleet.

Shipowners, container lines, ferries, and any vessel operator transitioning to alternative low-carbon fuels.

The French mill needed to recover dryer condensate to preheat steam-production water, but transferring loaded fluids upstream tended to clog conventional exchangers.

Alfa Laval heat exchangers placed at the dryer outlet and at the sewage-treatment-plant inlet to capture and reuse heat without clogging.

Paper mills, pulp producers, and any process plant recovering heat from condensate or loaded effluent streams.

In the early 1980s the Kemira sulphuric-acid plant lost its waste heat to the sea and needed to redirect it to Helsingborg’s district-heating system.

Semi-welded Alfa Laval D205 plate heat exchangers with FKMS gaskets in a closed-loop demineralised-water cooling circuit.

Chemical producers, refineries, and any heavy industry near a district heating network with usable waste heat.

The European Spallation Source produces fossil-free waste heat that needed to be captured and integrated into Lund’s district heating network.

Alfa Laval heat exchangers in emission-free SSAB Zero steel feed recovered ESS waste heat into the local district heating system.

District heating networks, large research facilities, data centres, and industrial sites with usable waste heat.

Etanol Lab needed an energy-efficient design for a new Serbian ethanol plant, but integrating beer and rectification columns risked exchanger fouling.

Alfa Laval plate heat exchanger as a low-fouling beer-column reboiler integrating the beer and rectification columns.

Ethanol producers, biofuels plants, and food and beverage distillation operations.

Arlanda Airport needed to heat and cool its facilities sustainably without relying on chillers, heat pumps, or fossil fuels.

Underground aquifer thermal storage system using Alfa Laval heat exchangers to store summer heat for winter use and vice versa.

Airports, large campuses, and infrastructure operators with year-round heating and cooling demand near suitable aquifers.

A leading yeast producer used 5 L of water per 50 g of yeast, facing water scarcity and high evaporator energy demand to remove that water.

Alfa Laval cross-flow membrane filtration installed before the evaporator to remove water and recycle it for cleaning.

Food and beverage producers, fermentation operators, and water-intensive process plants.

With 450+ motors on site, Waggeryd Cell could not identify which were wasting power or were wrongly dimensioned across the pulp mill.

ABB Ability Condition Monitoring with 156 smart sensors plus a Digital Powertrain Energy Appraisal, leading to SynRM motor adoption.

Pulp and paper mills, process manufacturers, and operators of large connected motor populations.

Vale lacked a central system to manage multiple substations across vast mine sites, slowing information exchange and exposing operators to electrical hazards.

Fully integrated ABB Ability System 800xA process and power automation with IEC 61850, AC 800M controllers, e-houses and intelligent electronic devices.

Mining and minerals processors, large industrial sites, and operators with distributed substations and electrical assets.

Formula E teams must finish a race on the energy equivalent of just six litres of petrol, demanding extreme drivetrain and energy-management efficiency.

ABB Formula E electric racing platforms, including Gen 2 and Gen 3 powertrains with regenerative braking and energy-management software.

Automotive OEMs, EV component makers, motorsport teams, and any developer of high-efficiency electric drivetrains.

Data-centre operator STT GDC aimed for net carbon neutrality by 2030 but cooling systems remain its most energy-intensive component.

AI-based optimisation models for the entire cooling plant, including chillers and distribution, fed by sensors and dynamic data analytics.

Data centres, hyperscalers, and IT operators looking to cut cooling energy with AI-driven controls.

In 2020 the plant needed to replace ageing motors on its sludge pumping and flocculation filtration systems while meeting national climate-protection targets.

Four ABB IE5 SynRM motors paired with ACS880-31 ultra-low harmonic drives, plus impeller geometry adjustments, replaced six older motors.

Wastewater utilities, water-treatment plants, and any pumping facility planning motor and drive renewals.

SCA aimed for an entirely fossil-free value chain and needed to find efficiency in a kraftliner operation running 2,400+ electric motors.

ABB Ability Condition Monitoring on motors and drives, with motor recycling and replacement by higher-efficiency models.

Pulp and paper, packaging, and process manufacturers operating large fleets of motors and rotating equipment.

Vessels at Toulon ran diesel generators while berthed, creating significant pollutant emissions in a port that handles 1,300+ ships and 1.6M passengers a year.

ABB-led turnkey shore-to-ship system with intelligent energy management combining solar, lithium battery storage and grid at 50/60 Hz.

Ports, ferry terminals, and maritime infrastructure operators electrifying berth power.

Vessels at Toulon ran diesel generators while berthed, creating significant pollutant emissions in a port that handles 1,300+ ships and 1.6M passengers a year.

ABB-led turnkey shore-to-ship system with intelligent energy management combining solar, lithium battery storage and grid at 50/60 Hz.

Ports, ferry terminals, and maritime infrastructure operators electrifying berth power.

Norwegian distributor Nasta needed to cut the carbon footprint and noise of heavy construction machinery to support national climate goals.

ABB AMXE motors, HES880 drives, energy management and battery/charging systems delivering up to 300 kWh per machine.

Construction, road-building, mining, and heavy-vehicle operators electrifying off-highway equipment.

An 80-metre paper machine relied on 1991-vintage motors and obsolete frequency converters with no remaining spare parts.

36 ABB IE4 high-efficiency motors and ACS880 Multi-Drive frequency converters retrofitted across the entire paper machine.

Paper, packaging, and process manufacturers running large multi-motor production lines reaching end of life.

Six older 30 kW DC motors driving filter drums in a bleacher ran nearly 8,600 hours per year, presenting a major efficiency opportunity.

Six ABB SynRM motor-drive packages with ACS880 drives replacing the legacy DC motors on the bleacher filter drums.

Pulp and paper mills, packaging producers, and other process manufacturers with continuously running motor loads.

Bangkok’s utility was losing close to 30% of supply (5.47 million m³ daily) through pipeline leakage as of September 2018.

Over 400 ABB AquaMaster flowmeters using GSM-SMS radio for high-resolution data and step testing across the distribution network.

Municipal and metropolitan water utilities, and any large pipeline operator focused on leakage and loss reduction.

Karnataka’s Koppal district faced repeated water shortages and major non-revenue water losses across 620 overhead tanks and 16 reservoirs.

ABB AquaMaster 4 electromagnetic flowmeters, ABB Ability Symphony Plus SCADA and remote terminal units across the dispersed network.

Municipal water utilities, regional water boards, and infrastructure operators tackling distribution losses.

Singapore’s water security depends on energy-intensive desalination, creating tension with its 2050 net-zero ambition.

Joint analysis with ABB defined upgrades in motors, drives, switchgear, flowmeters and 800xA control across the desalination plant.

Water utilities, desalination plants, and large industrial water-treatment operators.

Singapore needed to expand desalination to meet 430 million-gallon-a-day demand without derailing its 2050 net-zero target.

Energy-efficient motors, variable speed drives, switchgear, WaterMaster flowmeters and ABB Ability System 800xA distributed control.

Water utilities, desalination operators, and energy-intensive water-treatment infrastructure.

The Helsingborg site had multiple businesses with disconnected electrical and process control systems, crowded switchgear, and equipment well beyond service life.

Redundant ABB Ability System 800xA with AC 800M controllers, IEC 61850 protocol, Relion relays and unified electrical/process supervision.

Chemical plants, industrial parks, and energy-intensive sites needing integrated electrical and process visibility.

The hotel wanted to improve sustainability without compromising guest comfort, but eight HVAC and hot-water pumps were the largest power consumers.

16 higher-efficiency electric motors paired with 13 ABB ACH550 variable speed drives across the HVAC and hot-water system.

Hotels, hospitals, commercial real estate, and any building with pump-driven HVAC and hot-water loads.

IKEA targeted an 80% emissions cut by 2030 and HVAC accounted for ~40% of energy use in its two largest Spanish stores.

15 ABB ACH580 low-harmonic drives plus a complete package of standard ACH580 and ACH550 drives on HVAC systems.

Retailers, shopping centres, commercial real estate, and any large-format building with HVAC-dominated energy demand.

Vietnamese steelmaker Hoa Phat needed real-time emissions data to lower environmental impact and comply with national steel-manufacturing emissions standards.

Ten ABB Continuous Emissions Monitoring Systems (CEMS) on smoke-exhaust pipes with cold-dry gas analysis and integrated real-time data transmission.

Steel mills, cement plants, power generators, and any heavy industry needing continuous regulated-emissions monitoring.

Helsinki needed cleaner property heating to meet Finland’s 2035 carbon-neutral goal, since heating accounts for over a quarter of national energy demand.

Oilon high-temperature ChillHeat heat pumps for combined heating and cooling, equipped with ABB variable speed drives.

District heating networks, commercial real estate, and any building operator looking to displace fossil heating with heat pumps.

Operators lacked the resolution to attribute methane and greenhouse-gas emissions to specific industrial sources from space.

ABB-built optical greenhouse-gas sensors on GHGSat satellites detect emissions to parts per trillion at 100× the resolution of prior sensors.

Oil and gas, mining, utilities, and government agencies needing accurate site-level emissions monitoring.

Operators lacked the resolution to attribute methane and greenhouse-gas emissions to specific industrial sources from space.

ABB-built optical greenhouse-gas sensors on GHGSat satellites detect emissions to parts per trillion at 100× the resolution of prior sensors.

Oil and gas, mining, utilities, and government agencies needing accurate site-level emissions monitoring.

The library needed an energy-efficient HVAC system to handle Shanghai’s climate while meeting the city’s carbon-neutrality plan, since HVAC drives ~50% of building energy use.

129 ABB ACH580 variable speed drives on HVAC pumps, fans and compressors, plus energy management software, solar panels and heat recovery.

Public buildings, libraries, schools, offices, and commercial real estate with HVAC-dominated energy demand.

Campbell’s Shepparton plant targeted a 20% energy-consumption cut by 2025 and identified an inefficient refrigeration compressor motor as the prime opportunity.

A1 Electric Motors installed 72 kW and 55 kW SynRM IE5 motors with ACS580 variable speed drives on four refrigeration compressors.

Food and beverage producers and any energy-intensive plant running refrigeration or process compressor motors.

AP&T needed to cut wasted energy in servo-hydraulic sheet-metal presses while meeting stricter sustainability requirements from automotive customers.

ABB synchronous reluctance (SynRM) motors integrated into AP&T presses, with up to 16 motors fitted on the largest machines.

Automotive suppliers, metalworking, and manufacturers operating servo-hydraulic presses or other high-duty-cycle motor loads.

Water-supply pumps caused harmonic distortion and grid disturbances, while existing softstarter controls wasted electricity and risked damaging other equipment.

ABB ultra-low harmonic variable speed drives plus replacement of pump motors with modern higher-efficiency models on the water network.

Municipal water utilities, wastewater operators, and any pump-driven facility sensitive to harmonic distortion.

Italian steelmaker AFV Beltrame faced soaring energy prices and 1.3 TWh annual electricity use as its largest operating expense.

ABB motors and drives deployed on water pumping, flue-gas extraction and packing-line systems across multiple production sites.

Steel producers, heavy industry, and energy-intensive manufacturers running large pumping and gas-extraction motor systems.

Indian food and beverage facilities face rising temperatures and refrigeration accounts for over half of plant electricity consumption.

ABB variable speed drives and SynRM motors paired with evaporating condensers, sensors and instruments controlling refrigeration loads.

Food and beverage processors, cold-chain operators, and any energy-intensive site relying on industrial refrigeration.

Logistics and transport drive 30% of global CO₂ emissions, with Formula E moving 450 tonnes of freight up to 17,000 km per championship.

Energy-efficient ABB technologies and digitally connected devices integrated into DHL’s value chain to enable electric mobility and renewable-powered events.

Logistics, freight, motorsport operations, and fleet operators pursuing electric mobility and renewable-energy targets.

ABB needed to manage energy efficiency across a large global property portfolio with many older sites lacking technical documentation and benchmarks.

Rapid Energy Reviews, Building Management Systems, high-efficiency motors, heat recovery, PV modules and ABB Ability connected analytics across sites.

Commercial real estate, industrial sites, hospitality, and any organisation managing a multi-site property portfolio.

The Helsingborg site had multiple businesses with disconnected electrical and process control systems, crowded switchgear, and equipment well beyond service life.
Redundant ABB Ability System 800xA with AC 800M controllers, IEC 61850 protocol, Relion relays and unified electrical/process supervision.

Redundant ABB Ability System 800xA with AC 800M controllers, IEC 61850 protocol, Relion relays and unified electrical/process supervision.