Maco collects awards for its industrial project “Getting rid of gas”

The hardware brand Maco has announced that its industrial project “Getting rid of gas” won first place in the “Industry and Economy” category of the Energy Globe Award – an energy, environmental and climate competition of the federal state of Styria, Austria. The award was presented in early June 2025 for the company’s energy-efficient approach at its production site in Trieben.

This marks the sixth environmental award for Maco: the company has previously received four klima:aktiv awards and one earlier Energy Globe nomination. The 2025 win now adds to this collection.

As part of the project, which began in 2022, the company installed a 940 kW heat pump. Already, Maco has reduced its gas consumption by 40% and saves 5.3 GWh of energy annually. This also cuts CO₂ emissions by around 1,350 tonnes per year – the equivalent of the annual electricity consumption of roughly 250 European households.

In addition to the heat pump, Maco also introduced:

• a cold storage system to flatten peak loads;
• the use of waste heat to shorten the operation time of boreholes and reduce the volume of water required for cooling;
• optimisation of office heating temperature settings using existing systems.

The total cost of the project is approximately €2.39 million, of which €718,000 was covered by Austria’s national environmental programme.

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The Energy Globe Award is presented annually for the most efficient, practical, and scalable projects in the fields of energy and the environment.