The Research paper ‘Resource Efficiency: a missed opportunity’ launched at the Manufacturing Leaders' Summit 2018. It highlights the good news that improving resource efficiency (energy, materials, waste and water) is a massive (and currently missed) opportunity for cutting costs and improving competitiveness and productivity – as well as being essential for tackling climate change. And the accompanying highly convenient truth is that it doesn’t require significant capital expenditure.

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RESOURCE
EFFICIENCY: THE
MISSED OPPORTUNITY
OF MANUFACTURING
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2. THE WORLD’S 17.5 MILLION
FACTORIES ARE RESPONSIBLE
FOR ALMOST 1/3RD
OF GLOBAL
ENERGY CONSUMPTION AND
36% OF CO2e EMISSIONS
- International Energy Agency

3. THE WORLD’S 17.5
MILLION FACTORIES
ARE RESPONSIBLE
FOR ALMOST 1/3RD
OF GLOBAL ENERGY
CONSUMPTION AND
36% OF CO2e
EMISSIONS
Research we commissioned, estimates there are
approximately 17.5m manufacturing sites in the
world and together they account for just over 1/3rd of
global energy demand and CO2e emissions.
Most of these sites are very small, but 850,000, have
between 10 and 500 employees on site, and
sufficiently large annual resource costs (energy, water
and materials) that they are under significant
financial, reputational and regulatory pressure to cut
costs, risks and their environmental impact.
Sources:
International Energy Agency
https://www.iea.org/etp/tracking2017/industry/
Research by:
https://www.statisticbrain.com/global-factory-number-statistics/
(Primary sources: OECD, Bureau of Labor Statistics and others)

4. RESOURCE
EFFICIENCY IS
A MISSED
OPPORTUNITY
Energy, material waste and water
often exceed 50% of a factory’s
input costs (and they are rising).
The very best managed sites improve
their nonlabour resource efficiency at
about 7% p.a., year on year, whilst
the average only improves at 1 to 2%
p.a. (This puts the latter at a growing
competitive disadvantage. For
manufacturers with tight margins, in
competitive markets, it’s getting
business critical.)
Over 5 years, the
Average is 26%
less resource
efficient than
Best in Class
Unnecessary
cost and waste
AVERAGE YEARLY
RESOURCE
EFFICIENCY
IMPROVEMENT IN
MANUFACTURING
7%Best in class
Average
1%
Sources:
University of Cambridge
Professor Steve Evans, Cambridge University Centre for Industrial
Sustainability

5. In the UK alone, manufacturers are missing opportunities to boost their annual
profits by 12% (£10bn) without any significant capital investment.* And this is
the same the world over.
BILLIONS OF $ ARE WASTED ANNUALLY, WHILST
SIGNIFICANT DAMAGE IS DONE TO THE ENVIRONMENT
* Source: Cambridge University

6. THE SOLUTION FROM
MANUFACTURE 2030

7. THE SOLUTION FROM
MANUFACTURE 2030
RESOURCE EFFICIENCY.
MADE SIMPLE.
The M2030 bee is an easy to use,
cloud-based, software tool that
makes it simple for manufacturing
companies to manage resource
efficiency projects (energy,
material waste and water) to
reduce costs and risks in their
operations.
It helps plant engineers and
management to access the
knowledge and management
tools required to implement safely
and easily, hundreds of small
resource efficiency projects that in
aggregate add up to significant
financial and CO2e savings.

9. SOME OF THE LEADING
NAMES WE WORK WITH

10. CASE STUDY
MEAT PROCESSOR
Energy bill: circa £1,080,000 p.a.
Subscription: £3,600 p.a. per site
Result from 2 months’use in 1 site
23 actions in progress, est. 15.15% savings
7 actions completed, actual saving 8.3%/£89.6k
Examples:
Auto shutdown of idling compressors
Establish energy team
Put preventative maintenance plan in place for monthly, quarterly and annual lighting checks

11. Resource efficiency could save your
business millions, so act now to
make a real difference.
For more information on resource
efficiency and manufacturing, read
our new report Resource efficiency:
a missed opportunity in
manufacturing, for the latest
findings on the impact it could have
on the sector.
IT’S TIME TO
TAKE ACTION

12. WANT TO DISCUSS FURTHER?
TO DISCUSS HOW MANUFACTURE 2030 AND ITS M2030 BEE
TOOL COULD HELP YOUR BUSINESS, PLEASE CONTACT
Oliver Hurrey -
oliverhurrey@manufacture2030.com