The Placo® plant in Val-de-Cognac is innovating to reduce its environmental footprint. With the support of the French Agency for the ecological transition (ADEME), the heat emitted by its facilities – previously lost – is now recovered.
The Placo® plant in Val-de-Cognac, with a production capacity of around 30 million m² of plasterboard a year and 140 employees, has been working to reduce its environmental impact for several years now.
The inauguration of its innovative system for recovering and using the waste heat from its board dryer marks a new milestone in this strategy. Supported by ADEME, the Nouvelle-Aquitaine Region and the Water Board, this ambitious project required an investment of €11.4m.
The results are impressive:
14% reduction in CO2 emissions compared with 2019.
10.6% reduction in energy consumption through the use of waste heat, eliminating the need for a 900 kW gas boiler.
Almost 10% reduction in water consumption. The recovery of condensate water from the dryer steam, reinjected into the process, limits the amount of water drawn from the natural environment, thus conserving local resources.
Since 2010, Placo® has already reduced its CO2 emissions in France by almost 20%. The plant’s use of waste heat is a further illustration of its commitment to an increasingly decarbonized energy mix.
07.01.2025, Saint Gobain
Notícias sobre o material do site é copyright e pertence à empresa ou ao seu fornecedor de terceiros notícia, e todos os direitos reservados. Qualquer usuário que acessa esse material poderá fazê-lo apenas para seu próprio uso pessoal, bem como a utilização desse material é de risco exclusivo do Utilizador. A redistribuição ou exploração comercial de material tal notícia é expressamente proibida. Se tal notícia material é fornecido por um terceiro, cada utilizador concorda em observar e estar vinculado aos termos específicos de utilização aplicáveis a material notícia. Nós não representamos nem endossamos a precisão ou confiabilidade de qualquer informação contida em qualquer notícia ou sites externos referidos na notícia.
Should the content or the design of these sites violate third parties rights or legal prescriptions, we kindly ask you to send us a respective message without invoice or cost. We guarantee that passages where the claim is considered as justified will be removed immediately, without any necessity to involve any lawyer into this issue. We will reject any claim caused by submission of a honorary note in this regard without any prior contact and confirmation of the issueby us and we reserve the right ssue counter claim ourselves because of violation of aforesaid conditions.