Carter Holt Harvey Wins Top National Energy Efficiency Award
The Energy Efficiency Conservation Authority awarded Carter Holt Harvey Kinleith the Supreme Award at the EnergyWise
Awards ceremony held last night in Auckland. CHH Kinleith also won the EECA Sustained Achievement Award for
demonstrating the most improvement in energy efficiency over a number of years.
Kinleith Mill Manager Dave King said that the award reflects the company’s determination to maintain a successful and
sustainable business that operates responsibly. “Energy is a precious resource and our efforts will continue to focus on
making the best use of that resource,” he says.
The EnergyWise Awards celebrate progress towards a sustainable energy future for New Zealand and showcase organisations
and individuals that have demonstrated innovation and brilliant thinking in energy efficiency or renewable energy
projects.
The Kinleith entry demonstrated how a dedicated focus on maximising energy efficiency had resulted in both cost savings
and reductions in energy use per tonne of product produced since the implementation of Kinleith’s Value Creation project
in 1998. Designed to ‘reduce costs and work smarter’, the project saw the implementation of a wide variety of energy
savings projects, including increased use of wood waste as a fuel, equipment upgrades, ongoing optimisation of hot
water, and research into alternative renewable energy sources.
Energy efficiency is now a firm part of the Kinleith management programme. To date, the mill has improved its energy
efficiency to the extent that it consumes 17% less energy per tonne of product produced while raising production levels
by 25% since 1998.
Mr King recognised that the past and ongoing success of the project relies on the hard work and commitment of all
Kinleith employees, employees of Kinleith’s maintenance partner ABB and other suppliers.