Economic and Ecological Advantages of In-line Adhesive Manufacturing
When looking to save money on energy costs and align a coating/converting operation with the latest environmental impact classifications, companies should consider the benefits of in-line manufacturing of adhesives.
In times of rapidly increasing energy cost, and rolling blackouts and brownouts, energy input and waste disposal per product unit have become big concerns among manufacturers. Add to that ever-stricter government regulations regarding carbon footprint, Wall Street valuing companies by their energy use with ESG, and customers requesting low-energy-use products with environmental impact classifications like LEED, it becomes more and more difficult to implement measures to conform to all of these, while at the same time maintaining a profitable enterprise. While there are many, mostly government sponsored, programs out there, most offer only marginal, unproven, or non-existent cost savings. An approach that can realize actual savings is to review the overall production cost of a finished end-product and the energy input into its many components. One such measures is the in-line manufacture of adhesives by the coater/converter.