Energy

Industrial purposes

Industries make use of natural gas not only to heat or cool environments, but also to make production processes more efficient, cheaper and ecological. The most important productive uses are: food industry: malt and coffee roasting, meat processing (cooking, salami seasoning), cooking of bakery products (bread, bread-sticks, sweets) metallurgic industry: the most frequent applications are related to iron and its alloys, cast iron and steel. It is used in kilns for thermal treatments, for processes where controlled atmosphere is required, etc; tiles and ceramics: the gas is mainly used for the production of coating tiles and floor tiles, as well as in the sector of crockery and glassware and art ceramic. In the field of bricks (bricks, tiles), drying and cooking kilns working with natural gas allow to provide products with a more pleasant aesthetic aspect as compared to other techniques. The use of gas made the “fast cooking” possible, significantly reducing production times; glass: the absence of combustion residues and the easy temperature regulation make gas very suitable to supply continuous cycle kilns for both “sheet” and “pit” glass production; jewellery: thanks to its flexibility and flame purity, natural gas is widely used for the construction and welding of precious objects; weaving: natural gas supplies the energy needed to hair shaving and thermal fixing; paper industry: the methane is used to rapidly dry the ink.