Business areas

Industrial Decarbonization

Industrial decarbonization consulting and engineering: we define the roadmap, structure the financing and coordinate the execution of projects that cut emissions and energy costs.

CADE acts as the architect of industrial decarbonization: it defines the roadmap, structures the financing and coordinates the execution, with in-house process engineering and no technology agenda of its own.

Energy-intensive industries affected by the EU ETS or CBAM, plants that want to cut their energy bill and their emissions, and energy and sustainability managers who need a roadmap with a sound technical and economic basis.

Clients

Plant managementEnergy and sustainability managersIndustrial groupsEnergy service companies (ESCOs)Investment funds

Sectors

Chemicals and petrochemicalsRefiningFood and beveragesPaperCeramics and materialsMetallurgy

Services

Industrial decarbonization services

A single point of contact that defines what to do, how to finance it and who carries it out, with in-house process engineering and specialist partners for each phase.

Decarbonization assessment and roadmap

We audit consumption, calculate the carbon footprint and rank the measures by profitability in a roadmap.

Energy audit
Carbon footprint (scopes 1, 2 and 3)
Technology roadmap
Prioritisation by return on investment

Financial structuring

We combine energy savings certificates, the Innovation Fund and EU funding to make the investment viable.

Energy savings certificates (CAE)
Innovation Fund (Heat Auction)
Emission reduction mechanisms
EU R&D&I funding

Implementation and verification

We support execution as owner’s engineer, coordinate the EPC partners and verify the savings using the IPMVP protocol.

Owner’s engineering
Project management
Execution with EPC partners
Savings certification (IPMVP)

Six decarbonization levers

Measures are grouped into six technology families. All of them can generate verifiable energy savings certificates.

Process heat

Condensing, biomass or hydrogen boilers, solar thermal and thermal energy storage.

Waste heat recovery

Economisers, compressor heat recovery and heat exchange between processes.

Electrification and heat pumps

Industrial heat pumps and electric boilers.

Industrial refrigeration

Low global warming potential refrigerants and high-efficiency compressors.

Mechanical and electrical efficiency

Variable speed drives and high-efficiency motors (IE3 and IE4).

Renewables and valorisation

Solar PV self-consumption, biogas and renewable hydrogen.

Proprietary technology

Thermal energy storage and digital twins

Proprietary thermal energy storage to decouple waste heat or renewable electricity from process demand, and digital twins with SimulTWIN to simulate and monitor the energy performance of equipment and plants.