Elstor to supply a heat storage to Puro Textile Services

Puro Textile Services reduces its carbon dioxide emissions and switches to emission-free steam production in Kerava laundry!

Puro’s investment supports its owners’ goal to be carbon neutral in 2030. 🌍 The investment is an important part of Puro’s wider development programme.

The options for emission-free steam production were extensively explored with the help of an expert. As a result of a public tender, an electrically driven⚡heat storage system supplied by the Finnish company Elstor Oy was chosen.

“I am pleased that Elstor was chosen as the supplier, as its new technology was found to be excellent in the expert evaluation,” says Paavo Martikainen, Managing Director of Puro Textile Maintenance Services.

Elstor is also pleased with the cooperation with Puro.

“This is the first industrial laundry project for us. The investment in Puro is also an important milestone because, as in the manufacturing industry, industrial laundries traditionally use a lot of fossil fuels for steam production,” says Kari Suninen, CEO of Elstor.

Currently, steam is produced in Purola by a steam boiler fuelled by LPG. The steam is used in the laundry to heat water and to dry and finish textiles.

Elstor’s solution is a patented energy storage system that enables industrial steam and heat production cost-effectively without fossil fuels.

In the past, electrical energy has typically been stored in electric batteries. The new intelligent high
optimizes the storage of electricity as thermal energy when electricity is cheapest.

In addition to reducing emissions, the investment will also help to control costs and have a long-term beneficial impact on customer prices.

According to preliminary calculations, the modification of steam production will allow a reduction in annual carbon dioxide emissions of about 3,250 t CO 2 e. Most of this will be achieved immediately.
from the start of operation of the thermal store.

If all the process energy for the laundry is produced via the heat storage, the amount of heat energy produced is equivalent to the annual consumption of about 930 electrically heated detached houses 🏠 or 1 390 000 litres of oil burnt per year. The annual reduction in CO 2 emissions is equivalent to approximately 9 600 round trips by an internal combustion engine car from Hango to Nuorgam.