Cabinet producer Zalf has moved to cut its energy use by installing solar panels.
The company has installed the system on the roof of its Maser, Treviso, Italy factory and an electric car charging station.
Output will provide more than 30% of the power requirements for the indoor and outdoor lighting of the whole industrial plant, equal to the quantity of energy normally consumed by 15 residential buildings in a year.
Producing its own energy is one of the aspects of the company’s environmental sustainability policy that involves various combined actions such as ongoing consumption control, implementing production lines that consume less power, the recovery of thermal energy in the winter, a reduction in the utilisation of ground space and the management of rainwater using overflow and infiltration basins.
