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        3. Tennessee Manufacturing Facility Earns Better Practice & Project Award from US DOE

        Tennessee Manufacturing Facility Earns Better Practice & Project Award from US DOE

        July 20th, 2018

        US Dept of Energy Awards Saint-Gobain NorPro with Better Buildings RecognittionSaint-Gobain NorPro's Soddy-Daisy, Tennessee Manufacturing Facility Submetering Project Receives Award from U.S. Department of Energy

        Congratulations to Saint-Gobain NorPro's Soddy-Daisy manufacturing facility for its Submetering project and selection as an award winner by the United States Department of Energy.  The company will be recognized at an award ceremony in Cleveland on August 22, 2018 at the upcoming Better Buildings® Summit held at the Huntington Convention Center.

        A bit about the winning project

        Electrical submetering is an energy management method of installing meters to measure electrical consumption at a more granular level than that of the utility meter. Utility meters measure the building-level consumption, while submeters can measure at the system- and/or device-level. Saint-Gobain North America’s (SGNA) Sustainability Network has developed a partnership with submetering provider Panoramic Power, who sells low-cost, wireless submeters that clip on to an electrical wire.  

        Saint-Gobain NorPro's ceramic manufacturing facility in Soddy-Daisy, TN served as a pilot project for the Panoramic Power technology, led by World Class Manufacturing (WCM) Manager Patrick Sick. The sensors were placed on over 40 electrical loads in the facility, including on the system level (extruder zones and lines, HVAC panels) and the device level (air compressors, low pressure blowers). An online dashboard powered by the data from these sensors shows energy consumption of each individual load on a continuous time scale 
         
        Advanced Energy Monitoring with Wireless Submetering White Paper

        The visualization of the site’s energy usage allowed the site to use its World Class Manufacturing System to identify and implement energy reduction projects, four of which are case studies showcased in this report. The combined electrical savings of these projects will significantly reduce the site’s annual electricity spend. This does not include the added benefit of increasing operational efficiency and improving product quality, incurring maintenance, quality, production, and labor savings as well.  

        Based on the results seen in this pilot project, it is the Sustainability Network’s recommendation that all Saint-Gobain North American sites consider installing submeters to better manage their electrical usage and incur the added benefits.

         

        About Soddy-Daisy, Tennessee manufacturing facility

        The Soddy-Daisy facility, in its 102 year of ceramic manufacturing, produces patented products for the petrochemical, gas processing, chemical and refining industries with its leading technology bed support media for fixed bed reactors, mass transfer packing and support assemblies and regenerative thermal oxidizer (RTO) packing products.  This manufacturing facility is ISO 9001:2008 and 14001:2004 certified.  The site is also registered to the OHSAS 18001:2007 standard.  

        Saint-Gobain NorPro is a business of Saint-Gobain Ceramic Materials

         

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