Sustainability and Environmental Responsibility Report - Catalog - Page 13
Third Crown facility earns
highest honor from Ohio EPA
Crown became a three-time recipient
of the gold-level award in the Ohio
Environmental Protection Agency’s
Encouraging Environmental Excellence
(E3) program. The award recognizes
outstanding environmental stewardship
at Crown’s manufacturing facilities.
Previously, Crown’s electric motor, injection molding and electronic assembly
operations received this award.
The E3 program acknowledges Ohio
businesses for environmentally beneficial activities. The gold-level award
recognizes organizations that exceed
regulatory obligations and commit to
long-term strategies to reduce waste,
lower emissions and improve environmental performance. Many employees
at Crown’s award-winning facilities are
part of a cross-functional team dedicated to supporting and enhancing the
plant’s environmental management system and sustainability efforts. Their input
helps develop objectives and inform
strategy around reducing the facility’s
• Replacing a solvent-based cleaning
system with a closed-loop steam
system which eliminated chemical
use and created a safer work
environment while using and reusing
water responsibly
• Replacing the original HVAC system
with new energy-efficient HVAC units
and a new filtration and humidity
control system
• Installing energy-efficient T-5 lighting
fixtures throughout the building which
reduced energy consumption by
more than 48,000 kilowatt hours
per year
• Reducing paper waste by 80 percent
through a variety of programs
• Achieving zero landfill status
• Becoming ISO 14001 compliant
Another Crown facility
achieves zero landfill status
Crown’s wiring harness plant achieved
zero landfill status, the fifth Crown
facility to do so. The plant is also ISO
Roding, Germany, installed new LED
lighting with programmable zones and
automatic dimming to reduce electricity
use. Transport of components between
this facility and another in Roding also
received an upgrade. Returnable packaging, designed and built in-house, was
used to reduce waste when replenishing
manufactured components.
In Belgium, all new service vans are now
equipped with a system that converts
harmful nitrogen oxide in diesel vehicle
exhaust into harmless nitrogen and
steam. The system greatly reduces atmospheric pollution that leads to smog
in urban centers and helps provide
better air quality.
Multiple Crown
facilities have
To achieve this milestone, a team of
achieved
employees evaluated the facility’s oper-
A number of employee-initiated im-
including reusing the spools and con-
program award. They include:
One of Crown’s production facilities in
14001 certified.
environmental impact.
provements helped lead to the EPA’s E3
European facilities updated for
energy efficiency
ations for waste reduction opportunities
tainers needed for the manufacture and
assembly of wire harnesses. Any remaining waste is sent to a waste-to-en-
zero landfill
status.
ergy facility. This Crown location now
diverts more than 14 tons of waste from
landfills each year.
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