This year’s Transformers Magazine Industry Navigator conference entitled ‘Sustainability – outlook for the transformer industry‘ was held on 20 – 21 October 2022, in hybrid participation (online – Transformers Academy, physical – Zagreb, Croatia; Hotel Antunović, Zagrebačka avenija 100a).
This is an industry-wide event, where all parties had a chance to present their views on the subject and discuss the matter with other stakeholders. The objective was to identify the best approaches for improving sustainability in the industry.
“I just wanted to express how much I enjoyed your sustainability seminar today. I watched the whole day. Every minute. It was very special. Such a select group of impressive companies and individuals. You must be proud.
I’m please MIDEL was able to contribute to event.
If I may say, Well done!!”
Barry Menzies, M&I Materials
“Please accept my heartful thanks for the hospitality during my stay in Zagreb and for the perfect organization of the event, which has been so inspiring.
I’d like to praise and thanks Transformer Magazine team that worked so hard for an awesome outcome of the event!”
Leonardo Maschietto, PTTX
“I was happy to participate in Transformers Magazine’s Sustainability 2022 conference in Zagreb. It actually revealed to me another side of the power transformers’ world.
The new knowledge I acquired and the fresh ideas I delivered back to my company were very useful.”
Anatoliy Mudryk, Transformer Expert, Camlin Energy
All of the individual recordings are now available here. All you have to do is log in with your credentials, or create the free account, to be able to see the individual lectures held by our participants.
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Motivation
This year’s conference follows the Transformers Magazine’s Industry Navigator research, conducted last year, which also covered some aspects of sustainability. The research results have revealed that across the value chain and among different applications, there are significant differences in views on sustainability and related priorities.
This is indeed what we can see in the current practice – data related to sustainability are more frequently required in tenders and purchasing documentation, where different companies require different data and use different formats. This, unfortunately, significantly increases the workload and amount of documentation, undermining the very purpose of the initiative.
Therefore, there is a strong need to consider and discuss different views and priorities as well as to coordinate all activities with the objective of harmonizing the requirements and documentation to the greatest possible extent.
Many companies are considering projects related to sustainability; many will do this soon, therefore, now is the time to get together and unite efforts in making some order in this area to get better results.
Content
In this conference we aimed to present, discuss, and clarify practical aspects of today’s practices, such as:
- Options for improving sustainability (circular economy, low losses, CO2 footprint, etc.);
- Measures for practical use (which data best reflect improvements?);
- An overview throughout the value chain (e.g. do we need to apply the same requirements for the transformer as for its minor components?);
- Impacts on transformer specifications;
- Impacts on the supply chain, etc.
The research
Following the conference, research focused on key questions related to sustainability was conducted, which provided us with actionable results. You can download the report with all data here.
