ITALY
Klopman, the European producer of workwear fabrics, is to construct a cogeneration plant for its Frosinone production facility. The objective is to replace the existing thermoelectric plant to supply energy to the entire facility 
within a year.
The new power plant will produce thermal energy and electricity at the same time. In this way, almost all the thermal energy produced in the combustion process will be recovered and reused.
According to Klopman, in a traditional thermoelectric plant, only about 35% of the fuel is transformed into electricity. The remaining 65% is not used and is instead released into the environment in the form of heat, known as thermal energy. Klopman’s new plant has been designed to modulate both the electricity supply and the thermal energy supply, to cope with changes in demand from the facility.
Klopman said that the new plant should allow a 58.9% reduction in carbon monoxide, 72.1% nitrogen oxide (NOx) and 59.5% of dust, as well as achieving savings of around 4,500 tons of carbon dioxide a year.
The brand-new cogeneration plant represents an important investment from an environmental point of view, said Alfonso Marra, CEO of Klopman. “Attention to the environment is one of our distinctive characteristics visible throughout the production process,” he said. “With the new power plant, even the production of energy will meet the most advanced criteria of efficiency and environmental sustainability, a mark of respect for the territory that hosts us.”
