CalPortland awarded 2018 Energy Star Partner of the Year

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US: CalPortland has been awarded the 2018 Energy Star Partner of the Year - Sustained Excellence by the Environment Protection Agency (EPA). It received the award for its commitment to high-level leadership in energy management throughout the company.

Key 2017 accomplishments for the award include: reaching a 16% improvement in 2017 from a baseline year of 2003 for cumulative savings of US$109m; promoting energy management across the US cement industry through the chief executive officer’s leadership of the trade association and an offer of the company’s assistance to others in the industry; earning EPA’s Energy Star plant certification for two cement plants where one was recently purchased and required extensive upgrades and energy improvements to qualify in less than two years; expanding energy management into its fleet of ready mix concrete trucks by 118 units that run on compressed natural gas; continuing to invest in operations through new plant hardware such as a high efficiency separator for a mill, efficient new equipment to improve raw feed processing, and computational fluid dynamic software to better manage process air and material flows; developing innovative methods for training employees and motivating them to manage energy in their work; and outreaching to inform employees, over 106,000 community members and schools, competitors, and others on how they can manage energy and use Energy Star to save.

The latest award is the 14th consecutive recognition, from 2005 to 2018, by US EPA Energy Star for CalPortland.

Last modified on 02 May 2018

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