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- Title
Analysing Energy and Material Saving Technologies' Adoption and Adopters.
- Authors
Palčič, Iztok; Pons, Marc; Bikfalvi, Andrea; LIach, Josep; Buchmeister, Borut
- Abstract
The main objective of this paper is to map the adoption of technologies for energy reduction and resources consumption in production. The aim is also to contribute to the identification and understanding of the characteristics of the manufacturing firms that use these kinds of energy and material saving technologies. Our research is based on data from the largest European manufacturing survey to date and it includes data from Spain and Slovenia. The results show that the use of specific energy saving technologies and material saving technologies in manufacturing firms is still modest. Dividing manufacturing firms based on technology intensity sectors and based on their relative energy efficiency we have concluded that firms in high technology industries focus less on energy efficiency than low technology firms. Some other specific relationships between the use of energy efficient technologies and adopters' characteristics (e.g. use of environmental management systems) are presented in this paper.
- Subjects
SPAIN; SLOVENIA; ENERGY consumption in factories; ENERGY conservation; MANUFACTURING industries
- Publication
Journal of Mechanical Engineering / Strojniški Vestnik, 2013, Vol 59, Issue 6, p409
- ISSN
0039-2480
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.5545/sv-jme.2012.830