That's a solar factory on the campus that you are seeing on maps! It's called Ferrania Solis and was spun off from Ferrania Technologies a number of years ago.
Our long-term goals are focused on efficiency and self-containment. With those goals AND a neighbor with historical ties making solar panels, it seems pretty easy to think we'll eventually generate our own power entirely.
I hope they're making good progress in Italy. Anyone hear what stage they're at?
I think that even if all the equipment is ready and they could make film they're still waiting on the approval of the Italian government to start using the facility. The whole plant must be run at full capacity without issue before they will get certification.
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That brings me to question about the chiller units. I cant even remember the exact reason why the new units were required, from memory the old chillers were powered by steam, are the new chillers still steam operated?
My understanding is that the main plant provided both steam and chilled water to the LRF. Since the line is cut the LRF must produce both itself. Not sure of the new chillers use Steam or another method, but the plant would need a lot of steam for other purposes anyway.
And one day, maybe even some B/W sheet film!
Thats correct, when you see all this work being done, you can tell they mean serious business, i hope people flock to them for colour film once production starts.
These guys are the future for colour film production!
And a new Main Power transformer also so they can run off the grid and not from the campus power plant.
Didnt they raise 300K from the kickstart? I dont know how Ferrania is able to do all this with so little cash.
Typically plants like this benefit from own powerplants.
Any diversion from the Ferrania Technologies plant (as long not technically necessary, due to uneconomical oversized installations) can be considered bad though.
A film manufacturer was not only a coating plant, but a chemical plant. Having a chemical plant, even on different ownership, at your door is benefitial.
It is a bit of a shame to see the power plant close, but i expect it is no longer sustainable for Ferrania technologies to keep it running for themselves either, probably because they are not running the same full scale campus that there once was.
Looks like only a small percentage of the original works are being retained. And no doubt that retaining the power plant would require changing fuels to meet emission standards. If there are not sufficient tenants in the campus, the plant would not be able to run at full capacity, and so the economic advantages of a captive Power source who not be achieved.
Once they know the consumption under actually conditions they may set up a contact with an independent supplier depending on the polices in that Jurisdiction.
Since the other major tenant is in the solar power equipment business, they may not want anything to do with powering their operations from an archaic generating station.
I dont know if many know this here, but Italy has no power generation of its own, all their power is imported across the northern border from France via transmission lines.
This is not true. Italy can produce 100% of the electricity it needs. It mostly imports power from France and Swiss (10-20%) generated by nuclear plants since nuclear is outlawed in Italy. So basically to have nuclear the Italian energy authority invested in plants just on the other side of the border with France...
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