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LOCIMAP considered the potential for the integration of a number of high CO2emitting industries and had industrial partners within its team to bring in a high level
of detail on process operations within the key sectors; these were Cemex UK
Cement Limited, Papiertechnische Stiftung (PTS) from Germany representing the
pulp and paper industry, VDEh-Betriebsforschungsinstitut GmbH (BFI) the iron
and steel industry also from Germany and Terreal of France for the ceramic industry. In addition Phillips 66 provided key information on petrochemical operation.
Four technical specialist companies participated in the technical and business analyses: Parsons Brinckerhoff Sp. z.o.o. from Poland, Svenska Miljöinstitutet (IVL)
from Sweden, Link2Energy Ltd from the UK and the Institut Europeen
D’Administration Des Affaires (INSEAD) from France. External communications
were managed by the European Chemical Site Promotion Platform (ECSPP) from
the Netherlands.
2
The project concept was to re-examine the structure of industrial parks using best
practice benchmarks from across leading parks in the EU and elsewhere, the focus
being to substantially improve energy and resource effi ciency, reduce CO 2 emissions and improve competitiveness. From the outset, substantial advantages were
anticipated through migration towards more completely integrated manufacturing,
centred on concentrating activities in new industrial park structures supported by
dedicated services optimisation.
At one of the LOCIMAP steering groups, a chance remark was made that what
we need to underpin the future of manufacturing in Europe is a new industrial revolution. The context was of course a comment on the magnitude of the change that
this project was looking to defi ne in order to make a tangible impact on the competitiveness of European industry. From the outset, the ambition was to much more than
the squeezing out of a few percentage points in process effi ciency. Rather the goal
was to explore the potential for a step change breakthrough.
Conscious of the old adage that ‘if you always do what you’ve always done, then
you always get what you’ve always got’, this challenge for an industrial revolution
further emboldened the project to be courageous in its thinking. The LOCIMAP
project therefore looked to explore a range of parameters that could make such a
change and has included not only technical but also economic and business (and
even political) factors. At the heart of the analysis was the construction of a ‘virtual
industrial park’ where full optimisation of the industrial processes could be considered with all technical and business constraints removed.
Even before a presentation of the options, the reader may already, and rightly, be
thinking that any such technical changes, no matter how good, may be replicated
globally; therefore any grounds for optimism may be a respite rather than a longterm solution and still leave us with the original question as to how we secure the
competitiveness of the European manufacturing base. The response to this is, in
part, to refer to the potential of the closed-loop economy. Europe alone, of all the
major continents, has a relatively stable population; if we consider that we have all
the materials we need within the economy, then we can indeed close the material
2 http://www.locimap.eu
M. Bailey and A. Gadd
LOCIMAP considered the potential for the integration of a number of high CO2emitting industries and had industrial partners within its team to bring in a high level
of detail on process operations within the key sectors; these were Cemex UK
Cement Limited, Papiertechnische Stiftung (PTS) from Germany representing the
pulp and paper industry, VDEh-Betriebsforschungsinstitut GmbH (BFI) the iron
and steel industry also from Germany and Terreal of France for the ceramic industry. In addition Phillips 66 provided key information on petrochemical operation.
Four technical specialist companies participated in the technical and business analyses: Parsons Brinckerhoff Sp. z.o.o. from Poland, Svenska Miljöinstitutet (IVL)
from Sweden, Link2Energy Ltd from the UK and the Institut Europeen
D’Administration Des Affaires (INSEAD) from France. External communications
were managed by the European Chemical Site Promotion Platform (ECSPP) from
the Netherlands.
2
The project concept was to re-examine the structure of industrial parks using best
practice benchmarks from across leading parks in the EU and elsewhere, the focus
being to substantially improve energy and resource effi ciency, reduce CO 2 emissions and improve competitiveness. From the outset, substantial advantages were
anticipated through migration towards more completely integrated manufacturing,
centred on concentrating activities in new industrial park structures supported by
dedicated services optimisation.
At one of the LOCIMAP steering groups, a chance remark was made that what
we need to underpin the future of manufacturing in Europe is a new industrial revolution. The context was of course a comment on the magnitude of the change that
this project was looking to defi ne in order to make a tangible impact on the competitiveness of European industry. From the outset, the ambition was to much more than
the squeezing out of a few percentage points in process effi ciency. Rather the goal
was to explore the potential for a step change breakthrough.
Conscious of the old adage that ‘if you always do what you’ve always done, then
you always get what you’ve always got’, this challenge for an industrial revolution
further emboldened the project to be courageous in its thinking. The LOCIMAP
project therefore looked to explore a range of parameters that could make such a
change and has included not only technical but also economic and business (and
even political) factors. At the heart of the analysis was the construction of a ‘virtual
industrial park’ where full optimisation of the industrial processes could be considered with all technical and business constraints removed.
Even before a presentation of the options, the reader may already, and rightly, be
thinking that any such technical changes, no matter how good, may be replicated
globally; therefore any grounds for optimism may be a respite rather than a longterm solution and still leave us with the original question as to how we secure the
competitiveness of the European manufacturing base. The response to this is, in
part, to refer to the potential of the closed-loop economy. Europe alone, of all the
major continents, has a relatively stable population; if we consider that we have all
the materials we need within the economy, then we can indeed close the material
2 http://www.locimap.eu
M. Bailey and A. Gadd