Case Study

$3.2m annual cost savings for paper manufacturer

Catalyst Paper manufactures diverse paper products such as industrial packaging, food service, coated and uncoated groundwood, newsprint, directory, and market pulp. Customers include retailers, publishers and commercial printers in North America, Latin America, the Pacific Rim and Europe. The company set a target to reduce electricity consumption by 3%, and adopted ISO 50001 as a means to achieve it.

Having gained accredited certification, the company improved its energy performance by 5.6%, generating annual energy cost savings of $3,263,885.

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