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Description
Estover Dairy Industry OÜ is one of the largest dairy product wholesalers and distributors in Estonia which focuses mainly on cheese production. The company is part of the United Estover Group (UEG) along with Estover Piimatööstus OÜ and Eesti Juustu Tootmise OÜ, marketing their production and also imported brands. The aim of the Green ICT project is to optimise the resource utilisation through digitisation of operations in Estover Dairy Industry OÜ. The production of a company is resource intensive and resources are not currently measured, analysed nor digitally controlled.
The system upgrade will make the resource use system more traceable and will ultimately lead to overall control and monitoring of the entire process. Together with the upgrading of energy accounting, steam system, laundry system and production planning, and personnel accounting, the project will create readiness for energy and resource savings and digitalisation of the entire labour intensive process. Process digitalisation allows for faster management decisions and continuous seamless production processes within the company.
Summary of project results
Project main focus was on digitalisation that would increase the resource efficiency in the production through control and monitoring systems. By application of new technology in the company, the project has been proved to be a success.
As a result of the project, new technology was applied in production in the washing centers, also the automation of milk reception was improved, the production access systems were updated and digitised.
The planned activities of the project have been implemented and project has been successfully completed. Although 2021 proved to be a challenge to the company due to the increase in the price of all inputs necessary for operations (raw milk, electricity, fuel oil, labour costs), the change in selling prices of dairy products was not correlated with the increase in input prices. As a result of the investment, resource-efficient energy use is guaranteed in the company, therefore the impact of the grant is considered substantial. Although the implementation of the project differed from what was originally planned due to restrictions and supply problems due to COVID-19, the Project Promoter ensured that the activities were implemented on time. 2 new jobs have been established during the project. Project resulted with CO2 emissions reduction of 244.10 tons of CO2 equivalents and decrease of energy consumption by 567.81 MWh. Estimated growth in net operational profit was 6%.