Pasaban claims to have kept the energy consumption of its paper slitting machines down to around 20 per cent of their installed capacity by incorporating into its processes different latest-generation equipment for recovering most of the energy used in their operation.
In the past year, the company has installed in the main motors and some of the auxiliary elements of all its machines, systems to transform their mechanical potential energy into electric energy and thus minimise the actual use of power from the mains.
According to Pasaban, a saving of approximately 70 per cent of the installed capacity for these motors can be achieved, which, depending on the setup of the machines, can amount to 210 kW of the total driving of the cross-cutting group. An additional 10 per cent reduction is possible by using rectifiers to return fluctuation excesses of the motors' energy to the main electrical power.
