Natural gas prices have been increasing rapidly for the last years and, according to specialists, this trend is expected to continue in the near- and long-term future.  Companies all over the world are aware of this scenario and have been putting their efforts into energy savings projects.  Of course that it becomes an even bigger need for manufacturers who have energy-intensive processes like the manufacture of elastomer.

Intratec has recently been involved in one of these projects:  a world's leader elastomer manufacturer hired us to come up with new ideas and innovative solutions to reduce its energy consumption.  After studying the process in details, developing computational simulations, and performing different energy analysis like pinch analysis, gap analysis, benchmarking studies, etc., we have found out that there is room for energy savings even in top technology processes.

The innovative ideas and practices were able to improve equipments efficiency and reduce natural gas consumption by about 30%.  Additionally, Intratec provided an implementation schedule, which will allow savings of more than US$ 1 million per year in the first years with no investment.  On the bottom line facility's EBITDA was increased by 25%, and now the company is looking for applying the same ideas in similar facilities.

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