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The Norampac cardboard box factory, of pulp and paper giant Cascades Inc., wanted to reduce heating costs and improve employee comfort. The factory has 25 steam coil air heaters spread over 427,000 square feet—all on one floor. Each heater is controlled by a local mechanical thermostat, resulting in excessive energy costs, uncomfortable working conditions, and lack of centralized monitoring and control. Increase worker comfort, reduce energy spend and minimize installation costs The factory’s management had clear objectives to reduce energy costs associated with heating while increasing worker comfort by centrally managing temperature setpoints according to schedules. They also had to keep tight control of the project’s costs. In order to minimize direct and indirect costs, the installation had to be performed without affecting facility operations. Production downtime was not an option. 25% savings on heating costs Working around built-in challenges The sheer size of the factor...

The EU’s Copyright Directive Charm Offensive Pats Europeans On the Head and Tells Them Leave it Up to the Corporations When it comes to the new Copyright Directive, some in the EU would prefer that Europeans just stop paying attention and let the giant corporations decide the future of the Internet. In a new Q&A about the Directive , the European Parliament – or rather, the JURI committee, which, headed by Axel Voss, spearheaded the shepherding of Article 13 and 11 through a skeptical Parliament, sets out a one-sided account of the most far-reaching regulation of online speech in living memory, insisting that “online platforms and news aggregators are reaping all the rewards while artists, news publishers and journalists see their work circulate freely, at best receiving very little remuneration for it.” The author of JURI’s press release is right about one thing: artists are increasingly struggling to make a living, but not because the wrong corporations are creaming off the...