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How a Norwegian Factory Turns Waste Heat Into Profit
Episode 8 of The Manufacturing Podcast digs into industrial heat recovery at a Norwegian aluminum recycling plant. Lucas and Luna walk through how Norsk Metall Energi cut its natural gas use by 70 percent by capturing waste heat from its furnaces and selling it to the local district heating grid. The episode covers the specific technology — a shell-and-tube heat exchanger paired with a 2.5-kilometer insulated pipeline — the economics (a 3.2-year payback on a 14 million euro investment), and the regulatory push from Norway's carbon tax that made the math work. Lucas also touches on why…
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