Our facility manufacture Blood Pack Units for blood collection. It are manufactured from vynil material and is distributed all around the world.
Our facility is located in Maricao, Puerto Rico. We are occupying four building leased to Puerto Rico Industrial Company. Two of these buildings are for manufcaturing operations, which are a total of 106,155 square feet. Our operations include the preparation of the raw material cutting it to size for the sealing operation using RF equipments. And the extrusion of the PVC tubing that are going to be included in the blood pack unit to collect and dispense the blood. The second part of the assembly operations includes the addition of anti-coagulant solution, sterilization and packing process. It completes the assembly process, allowing our product to be ready for the customer. The remain two buildings we have a space of 33,560 square feet for storage of raw material, finish good and MRO material for the operation.
We are monitoring the monthly water usage from our city water and the well water. This information is part of our monthly metrics that are discussed within the staff. The normalization of this total with the Single Pack Unit provides the final number against our goal.
-Material recycled are weight before send it to the recycling company on monthly basis and records are maintained in an excel spreadsheet. - Cardboards are compacted in bundle of 600 lbs, this is an standard size using a vertical compactor. - Same process is used to manage the recycled plastic and poliethylene material. - Shredded material are manage in bags that weight 35 lbs, that is managed by the recycling personell, collected in a trailer of 40 feet and mainatained in our facility untilit is fill-up. -All data collected is audited by our facility and the recycler company that revise the documents and the weight of the bags randomly. -Dry PVC material are weighted using the in-house sclae in the warehouse area. This equipment is also used to weight our finish product for delivery purposes and a claibration program does exist to comply with standards. -Data is communicated to the staff on monthly basis. - Domestic waste is contained in two 40 yds containers that are moved from our facility on bi-monthly and some times every three month, depend upon our activity. Because we are collecting the domestic waste in these two containers and the service is on-call, we maintained our service tickets and called them to have the information of the weight related to this container. This information is maintained in our internal data base in the excell spreadsheet.
The normalizing factor is based total production activity of single pack unit produced in our manufacturing area during the year.
-Data for the electricity from utility are collected using the electricity bill. -Diesel consumption data is maintained whenever we receive a truck to fill our tanks. It is also used for the air emmisssion records and report to local agency, Environmental Quality Board. -Propane gas data is collected in the same way as the diesel, whenever a delivery occurred.
We have sponsored the effort from public school in their reforestation projects. -Actively participate with local goverment activities and meeting for the emergency response plan. -Support local emergency agencies providing absorbent material and support in the process to dispose some of the absorbent material used to collect used oil.
- We maintain close relation with the Municipal recycling department and help them through the collection of material to improve their performance, establishing our committment in the environment concern. - Contacting the team leader for the school or the community committe and be part of the solution, providing knowledge, material and human resources from our labor force.
-We have environmental fair in our facility and invite the community to receive information from them.