dena awards efficiency prizes to three companies / Energy Efficiency Award 2011 goes to SCA Hygiene Products, Heideblume Molkerei and Südbayerisches Portland-Zementwerk

Berlin (ots) - The Deutsche Energie-Agentur GmbH (dena) - the
German Energy Agency - has today given the Energy Efficiency Award to
three companies in recognition of their exemplary efforts to increase
energy efficiency. The first prize was shared by SCA Hygiene Products
for the savings it has made in various cross-sector technologies and
Heideblume Molkerei Elsdorf-Rotenburg AG for its successful
implementation of energy contracting. The second prize went to
Südbayerisches Portland-Zementwerk for its efficient use of waste
heat in its manufacturing operations. The prizes were awarded during
the dena Energy Efficiency Congress in Berlin. This competition, with
its total prize money of EUR 35,000, was organised by dena as part of
its Initiative EnergieEffizienz with support from its Premium
Partners DZ BANK AG, Imtech Deutschland GmbH & Co. KG and Siemens AG.

"This year's prizewinners are an impressive demonstration of the
potential energy savings that companies can make by increasing energy
efficiency. In doing so, not only are they making a major
contribution to environmental and climate protection, but the
consequent reductions in costs also give them a distinct competitive
edge", commented Stephan Kohler, dena's Chief Executive Officer.

Between 2003 and 2011, SCA Hygiene Products carried out over 600
projects to increase energy efficiency at its four German sites in
Mannheim, Kostheim, Neuss and Witzenhausen. The focus was on
optimising compressed air and pump systems and on heat generation.
The company consistently involved its own staff in these efforts,
actively encouraging them to submit suggestions. All in all, the
implemented energy efficiency measures are saving the company around
220 million kilowatt-hours of energy per year, which corresponds to
cost savings of EUR 9 million*.

Heideblume Molkerei Elsdorf-Rotenburg AG has been able to achieve
considerable savings in energy usage and costs by using energy
contracting. A service provider took over the operation of all
installations and implemented an innovative package of measures for
cold and heat supply. The company achieved further savings by
reducing the power demand of its in-house effluent treatment plant.
In total, annual energy usage was cut overall by 12.6 million
kilowatt-hours. This corresponds to annual energy cost savings of EUR
500,000*.

Südbayerische Portland-Zementwerk Gebr. Wiesböck & Co. GmbH won
its prize for commissioning an innovative dentrification plant. Major
reductions in nitrogen oxide emissions can be achieved by applying
the SCR (Selective Catalytic Reduction) process. If the heat required
for this purpose is conventionally generated by gas burners, the
plant's requirements can be virtually completely met by heat
recovery. The company has accordingly commissioned the world's first
clean gas SCR plant in the cement industry and cut its own energy
usage by around 20 million kilowatt-hours per year. As a result, the
company can make annual energy cost savings of EUR 430,000.

As part of its Initiative EnergieEffizienz, dena, together with
partners from business, has been giving the international dena Energy
Efficiency Award to recognise exemplary energy efficiency projects in
industry and production since 2007. Initiative EnergieEffizienz is a
dena campaign funded by the Federal Ministry of Economics and
Technology.

* Assumed electricity price: EUR 0.12/kWh, assumed natural gas
price: EUR 0.03/kWh, assumed heating oil price: EUR 0.04/kWh.

Media contact:
Deutsche Energie-Agentur GmbH (dena) / German Energy Agency,
Gunnar Will, Chausseestrasse 128a, 10115 Berlin, Germany
Tel.: +49 (0)30 72 61 65-723, Fax: +49 (0)30 72 61 65-699,
E-mail: will@dena.de, Internet: www.dena.de