Mettler Toledo’s Green program has spawned an EcoDesign initiative that targets the full product lifecycle by holistically optimizing the use of materials and energy in manufacturing, reducing energy and resources consumed during use, and mitigating end-of-life impacts.
The program comprehensively measures energy and resource usage as a means of determining the company’s global carbon footprint.
The program aims to lower energy, reduce material and resources used in manufacture and maintenance, and promote resource efficiency for manufacturers.
All along the value chain research and development, manufacturing, transportation, point of sale measurement equipment that has been designed with environmental factors in mind.
The company applied EcoDesign principles to its latest-generation EasyMax automated chemistry development system.
It replaces the traditional round bottom flask with reactor vessels of differing volumes to suit the job in hand.
This approach consumes less reagents and solvents, reducing both costs and potential safety risks.
The system’s integrated, solid state heating and cooling system eliminates the previous need for energy-intensive external cooling devices like cryostats, resulting in overall energy savings.
The exact temperature and sample control enable the manufacturers to downsize reactors and substance amounts.
Mettler Toledo designed its latest Safeline inspection machine with a more sensitive sensor in combination with an energy-saving x-ray generator, lowering overall power consumption by up to 45% and reducing total cost of ownership.
Its effectiveness at measuring and detecting a problem before products leave the factory helps to avoid shipping and possible recalls of defective products, and hence energy wasted in transportation.
Freight carriers are sometimes accused of ‘moving air’: packages with excessive internal voids, or pallets that no longer fit together perfectly inside trucks and containers.
Dimensional weight pricing allows the charging of consignors by the kilogram and the physical size of their shipments.
Through awareness of each item’s exact dimensions, the carrier will also know what objects can be used to fill surplus volume.
The Mettler Toledo’s range of Cargoscan dimensioners use laser range finder technology to measure the length, width and height of parcels, pallets and other goods.
Front-of-store weighing technology tends to operate in situations where usage intensity fluctuates dramatically in the course of a day and a week due to variation in shopper numbers.
Implementing pre-programmed energy-saving modes which ensure that a scale is ready for use, and prevents the equipment using unnecessary power during slack periods.
The latest UC Evo line as much as halves power demand to 32-36 watts or even less in when the scales enter sleep or standby mode.
Measurement equipment designed with environmental factors in mind can be a potent driver of solutions that address the global energy challenge.
