Pincroft·March 1, 2026

94% weekend energy reduction, 29% weekday reduction, 3 month payback

The Challenge

Pincroft is one of Europe's largest commission textile finishers, finishing a diverse range of fabrics that are exported to more than 80 countries worldwide. Their 376,000 sq. ft textile finishing plant houses state-of-the-art machinery to ensure the highest quality and performance of their fabrics.

Their operations are very energy intensive, requiring large amounts of hot water and steam alongside a substantial amount of electricity. They believed that energy was being wasted across their operations, however they did not have the visibility required across their energy-consuming assets to prove this and take corrective actions.

The Solution

Non-intrusive Panoramic Power sensors were deployed, collecting real-time energy data from over 100 sources across their critical energy-consuming assets. In addition, they also leveraged communication bridges to capture third party meters monitoring their hot and cold water, steam and gas, alongside their production lines output. Through PowerRadar, Pincroft can extract the data to carry out further in-depth analysis in their in-house Power BI platform.

Maximising Productivity

Through the energy insights solution, Pincroft now has complete visibility into how much energy each piece of equipment consumes on a minute-by-minute basis, enabling them to identify opportunities to improve efficiencies and reduce waste in real time.

Daily reports are generated and circulated throughout the team, which break down the performance of each machine and enables them to take corrective action should an unexpected increase in energy consumption occur anywhere in the plant.

For example, they have been able to identify when operators used cold water in machines that require hot water, and they have been able to take steps to ensure their operators use hot water from the heat recovery system — a far more energy-efficient approach.

A Cultural Shift in Interpreting Energy

With a payback period of just three months, the energy insights solution has transformed how Pincroft manages energy across their operations. Pincroft has reduced their weekend energy spend by 94% and weekday energy spend by 29%.

This has put them on track to achieve CO₂ savings of 648 tonnes compared to 2019, which is the equivalent of removing 140 vehicles from the road for one year. They are also saving 0.84 kWh per metre of fabric produced — a significant achievement for a company that produces 20 million metres of fabric each year.

Key Metrics

• 94% reduction in weekend energy costs
• 29% reduction in weekday energy costs
• 3 month payback period
• 648 tonnes CO₂ savings (equivalent to removing 140 vehicles)
• 0.84 kWh saved per metre of fabric produced

"Panoramic Power plays a big part in maintaining operational excellence at our facility. Once you've had these insights, you wouldn't want to be without it." — Mike Collins, Managing Director, Pincroft

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