Packaging manufacturer to save £60,000 on energy bill with ABB drives The Problem Smurfit Kappa, a manufacturer of cardboard packaging for the food and beverage industry wanted to investigate ways to reduce its energy bills without compromising any of the production processes. At its plant in Bristol, Smurfit Kappa produces cardboard materials such as shelf ready packaging, trays and bottle carriers, designed to transport and display supermarket products such as beer bottles and tubs of butter. The products are stamped out of cardboard sheets and then printed. During this production process, the plant machinery creates thin strips of waste cardboard that are shredded into smaller particles by fans and then blown into the baler for packing and disposal. APDS's Solution APDS proposed to look

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