Epcon Industrial Systems

Research has shown that two-thirds of the average company’s ESG footprint lies with suppliers. Environmental, social, and governance is the measurable evolution of Corporate, Social, Responsibility (CSR). Environmental covers issues around climate change, such as pollution, carbon emissions and footprint, deforestation, and more; the Social covers everything from health and safety, human rights, diversity, equality, and community impact; while Governance deals with business ethics in general, encompassing compensation, bribery and corruption, as well as legal and regulatory compliance. Sustainable Purchasing practices can incorporate ESG into day-to-day operations as it directly determines what is purchased, from whom, how it is delivered, and product lifecycle sustainability, while indirectly influencing both suppliers and consumer behaviour. Furthermore, increase in demand for sustainable products and services is reflected in a company’s buying decisions, and has a broader eff...

The industrial painting and coating of surfaces typically involves stages of heat treatment along with significant VOC emissions, which make the process well suited for an integrated “ oven /oxidizer combination” design with multi-stage heat recovery. By utilizing heat exchangers to transfer heat, it is possible to recover and recycle most of the thermal energy that would otherwise be wasted in the process, and potentially save millions in annual operating costs. A primary heat exchanger is used to pre-heat the process gas as it enters the air pollution control unit. These are typically in the form of regenerative and recuperative thermal oxidizers. From there, a secondary and even tertiary heat exchange system can be utilized to further recycle thermal energy. Within industrial paint and coating applications, the inclusion of multi-stage heat recovery between the ovens and oxidation process not only ensures emission compliance, but enhances thermal efficiency and overall system pe...