Interaction Design for Cleantech Innovation

Preliminary Assignment

for

Ragnhild Skeid

Friday 28th of June

Interview with Rikke Ørbæk Andersen

Rikke and Danni have lived together for five years in an apartment right outside of the Copenhagen city centre. The apartment is 74 Square Meter.

Rikke expresses a low awareness for cleantech possibilities within their home, and admit that sometimes she even throw glasses in the wrong bin.

Yet they have installed a lamp in the kitchen that turns off if there is no activity in the room, this is to prevent the electricity bill from being to big.

She also says that it is important to think about the reduction of consumptions.

Within the housing association they have a recycle station where they can sort their garbage. She also delivers old clothes to second hand stores, or UFF- containers

Rikke and her friends are very interested in organic food and Danish-produced products

Interview with Peter Manhart at Nilfisk Advance

Peter Manhart has been working at Nilfisk Advance in Brøndby for 4 years now as a Environment and Quality Control assistant

Nilfisk Advance has their headquarters in Brøndby, but the production facilities are located in Asia, Europe and America. They have sales companies in 43 countries - plus distributors in more than 70 countries

Nilfisk has institutional and industrial customers, as well as professional contract cleaners. The products are sold under a wide range of brands, including Nilfisk, Nilfisk-ALTO, Advance, Clarke, Viper and Nilfisk-CFM. In the domestic market, they offer both vacuum cleaners and high pressure washers under the Nilfisk brand.

In order to support the efforts to unify the ethics standards within the global business community, Nilfisk-Advance has joined the United Nations Global Compact initiative.

Nilfisk has several patents on different technologies that are energy efficient and reduces waste during the production.

Peter explains that there is a high awareness within the Nilfisk Advance headquarters, and all of the employees are encouraged to participate in the awareness of theproduction and reduction of waste.

Nilfisk Advance got their own strategy for cleantech innovation that is called: Green meets Clean, this concerns both the production itself, but also the products the customers buy. Nilfisk Advance offers customers cleaning solutions that are both efficient and improve the sustainability of the industry.

Cleaning machines naturally consume energy, water and in certain product areas also detergents. Hence this is the area where Nilfisk Advance can make the maximum possible impact on the environmental efforts and simultaneously reducing cost for their customers. Peter say that new products shall provide equal or enhanced cleaning efficiency while using less energy, less water and less detergent

At the headquarters in Brøndby, there is a 24h production, but to reduce the electricity in such a big place Nilfisk Advance has developed a technology that makes the halls use 1/3 of the normal usage of light.

Also they ensure that water is collected and recycled. Peter explains that they have implemented a process, where the water for this mainly is collected rainwater, which is also reused in both the test facility and the heating system.

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In Kalundborg Symbiosis, public and private enterprises buy and sell waste products from industrial production in a closed cycle. The residual products traded can include steam, dust, gases, heat, slurry or any other waste product that can be physically transported from one enterprise to another. A residual product originating from one enterprise becomes the raw material of another enterprise, benefiting both the economy and the environment.

Kalundborg Symbiosis

There are many partners in this recycle symbiosis:

Kalundborg Symbiosis

The Kalundborg Symbiosis believes that they have created a recycle system based on the natures way, where output becomes input in another part of the ecosystem.

The knowledge that the symbiosis have, they now try to sell to other communities and countries that want to develop both environmentally and economically.