Reducing Energy Costs for Surface Finishing Plants

Reducing Energy Costs for Surface Finishing Plants

Energy costs continue to be a major component of overall operating costs in surface finishing plants, and as manufacturers struggle to stay competitive in such a challenging economic climate, many companies are looking to energy savings to improve their bottom line.

Thankfully, a well-established U.K based plant manufacturer has not only addressed this concern but continues to go from strength to strength in their successful development, and installation of energy saving plant systems.

Andrew Grice, General Manager of Midlands based Complete Finishing Systems explains.

“Coming back into the surface finishing industry after a decade or so working in the automotive sector, it was clear that little had changed by way of the development or use of energy efficient technologies. The focus still appeared to be on how a new plant could be manufactured at the lowest price point, but with the hidden operational costs for the end user remaining largely overlooked.”

The approach of CFS was simple, to develop new and energy efficient technologies that could be manufactured to give our customers a plant with the highest levels of performance, efficiency, and quality, but with the lowest possible operational costs and shortest return on investment.

Our first purpose-built energy saving plant system proved to reduce the total energy consumption of a pre-treatment plant and dry off and cure ovens by over 90%, and the efficiency, quality, and reliability of all our systems have proven to demonstrate similar savings. This has enabled many of our customers to secure Government energy efficiency grants of up to 100% of the capital purchase price.

Complete Finishing Systems continues to demonstrate our unrelenting focus on carbon footprint reduction via innovation and technology. Our systems not only enable our customers to rapidly accelerate their Net Zero target, but the dramatic reduction in their operating costs also gives them a hugely competitive edge, and improved profit margins.

A case study of one of our recent installations of a fully automatic, ultra-high efficiency powder coating plant system showed that, when compared to a conventional plant system, we were able to reduce our customers operational energy costs from 3 shifts each consuming 841Kwh, to a single shift consuming only 290Kwh. We are also in the process of installing several zero carbon, solar powered plant systems.

Whether it be a new plant, or a retrofitted system, the savings that our customers are making are so significant, that they are not only surviving in the current economic climate but are thriving with such a competitive edge over their rivals.

Complete Finishing Systems are a SurfacePrep company. In the UK we have 4 locations Sheffield, Washington, Manchester and CFS based in Tipton. The company has over 50 locations worldwide in the USA and Canada.

Complete Finishing Systems also employs Service/Commissioning Engineers and has an Internal Service & Spares Department available to look after clients after sales requirements.  The group employs further engineers enabling unrivalled service coverage throughout UK.

For more information call us on 01902 601 312 and see how we can help you.