100 Pioneers in Efficient Resource Management Best practice cases from producing companies /

• Main Authors: Schmidt, Mario (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Spieth, Hannes (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Haubach, Christian (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Kühne, Christian (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Institute for Industrial Ecology INEC (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer Spektrum, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Sustainable development.; Ecology .; Energy policy.; Energy and state.; Energy efficiency.; Sustainable Development.; Ecology.; Energy Policy, Economics and Management.; Energy Efficiency.

The book presents about 100 current examples of how energy and materials can be saved in manufacturing companies. They serve to show which measures can be used in modern companies to exploit the potential for resource efficiency. The book is aimed at practitioners in companies and consulting firms,...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction: Communicate about resource efficiency
• PART I - Introduction to the topic
• 1 Resource efficiency in the industrial society
• 2 approaches to operational resource efficiency
• 3 Methods and tools
• 4 Resource efficiency as an export product
• 5 The 100-company project
• PART II - Examples of companies
• Mining and quarrying
• Food industry
• Textile industry
• Wood industry
• Paper industry
• Chemical industry
• Pharmaceutical industry
• Rubber and plastics industry
• Manufacture of glass and ceramics
• Metal processing industry
• Precision mechanical industry
• Manufacture of measuring and control instruments
• Electrical industry
• Mechanical engineering
• Automotive industry
• Furniture industry
• Medical technology
• Energy supply
• Recycling industry
• Construction industry
• Appendix.