Mitsubishi HiTec Paper and Partners Launch Energy Efficiency Initiative

Germany-based Mitsubishi HiTec Paper, a division of Mitsubishi Paper Mills Ltd., announces a plan to team up with four other paper mills in that country and eight chemical companies to establish an energy efficiency network called “ChePap Rhein-Ruhr II.”

Mitsubishi Paper Mills Ltd. is made up of two divisions: its HiTec Paper division and another based in Japan that makes graphics arts materials. Both divisions serve a wide range of industries, including the sign industry. On the HiTec Paper side, the company’s Jetscript brand of paper offers more than 50 paper grades, including those used in sign and poster making and other applications of high-speed printing.

Under the new energy efficiency network, regular meetings are held at which representatives from the various companies share efficiency and technology initiatives with each other and with external experts and then implement them in their companies. Mitsubishi HiTec Paper says that as a result of the first energy efficiency network, ChePap Rhein-Ruhr I, which was also supported by the chemical and paper industries and which has now been superseded by this new initiative, participants achieved efficiency gains of around 3 percent.

“We are continuing our successful energy efficiency cooperation with this new initiative, because the topic is more relevant than ever,” says Gerd Finkenhofer, energy manager at Mitsubishi HiTec Paper. “On the one hand, very good energy efficiency naturally contributes to our goals of sustainable management and protection of the environment, but on the other hand it is also indispensable for maintaining the competitiveness of Germany’s energy-intensive industry.”