New energy smart facility

The new plastic factory is at full production speed!
Here is an interview with Johan Sverkersson, CEO of National Plast.

What has the new factory meant for the business?
- It is a huge boost for the business, in terms of improved working environment, safety, sustainability and increased efficiency.

What does the machinery park look like in the new factory?
- Today we have 6 injection molding machines between 400-700 tons clamping force, shot weight between 1.5-3 kg, 5 120-250 tons 200-600g and 4 30-60 tons 50-120g shot weight, all with robots and direct recycling of ingots (scrap). 4 of the machines are brand new!

Which major sustainability gains with the facility do you want to highlight?
- Since we placed great emphasis on energy consumption already when planning the complete production plant, we have maximized the benefit of the supplied energy - through this we become enormously energy efficient. To be able to prove this, we have 40 measuring points for measuring the energy consumption in real time, in this way we can directly see energy thieves in the system and remove them. We also get a value of the energy consumption per manufactured article and can thus, by extension, calculate the total CO2 footprint of each manufactured article.

What benefits do you see for customers?
- We can give the customer a value on the CO2 footprint that their products create in our manufacturing and thus help them in their quest for sustainability. Furthermore, a low energy consumption is a way to be more affordable and enables lower prices even in the long term.

If you were to highlight a particularly sustainable product, which one would it be?
- It has to be the forest planting boards for nurseries globally, here we use 100% post consumer PP to produce the planting bed itself for propagating tree seedlings, we make sure that approx. 1000 tons of plastic "rubbish" annually does not end up in nature but becomes breeding ground for new trees which are planted around the world. It feels good!

Thank you Johan for the chat and good luck with the new factory!