Colin Mair

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Colin Mair has worked for 30 years in product and process development. He is the founder of Cormal Technology, which develops technology to support thermal processing systems. Contact him at [email protected] or Tel: +44.1526 344495.
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Pet Food Market
Online Extra! More from Cutting carbon footprints: 5 steps
Get the whole story from March 2008's "Cutting carbon footprints: 5 steps"
Pet Food Market
How to Establish a Strategy for Measuring and Controlling Energy Costs
An Exclusive Online Extra from the November 2007 article, "Save Energy"
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Cutting carbon footprints: 5 steps
The carbon footprint concept requires petfood manufacturers to analyze the total "carbon cost" of manufacturing in a way that goes well beyond direct energy costs
Figure 1: Manageable Parts - Break down your company into manageable parts so action plans can be formulated and implemented.
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Save energy
In the petfood industry we use massive amounts of energy. With the combination of ever increasing energy costs and public and legislative pressure to reduce energy use, now is the time to increase efforts to measure and minimize energy costs.
Map out your processes before starting detailed measurements or committing money to expensive instrumentation.
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