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2008 ENERGY STAR Award Recipients

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ENERGY STAR Partner of the Year — Energy Management

Allergan

Irvine, California

Allergan, Inc. is a leading manufacturer of multi-specialty healthcare products worldwide. The company’s well-designed energy management program exemplifies the ENERGY STAR Guidelines for Energy Management. For this and its consistent energy savings, Allergan is receiving ENERGY STAR recognition for the first time. Key accomplishments include:

  • Establishing a strong energy management team that includes senior executives and facility managers worldwide.
  • Implementing an aggressive sub-metering strategy to facilitate efforts to benchmark and prioritize energy projects, evaluate results, and re-adjust targets.
  • Improving energy intensity by 4 percent across its pharmaceutical facilities in 2007, saving more than 7.8 million kWh and $839,000.

Allergan actively engages its suppliers and customers to work with the company to meet energy performance targets. Energy criteria are incorporated into Allergan’s user requirement specifications for new products and processes. The company is proactive in community outreach initiatives, conducting awareness campaigns, promoting car-free days, and running educational events for local schools. In addition, the company shares energy management strategies and techniques with other ENERGY STAR industrial partners to advance the state of energy management in the pharmaceutical industry and beyond. As part of its commitment to the environment, Allergan also participates in the Carbon Disclosure Project, employs advanced strategies to replace carbon-intensive fuels with less intensive ones, and uses energy-efficient technologies such as cogeneration and fuel cells.

Allergan continues to demonstrate commitment to corporate energy management by setting a goal to reduce energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions 5 percent by 2010, and 50 percent by 2020.

Allergan

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ENERGY STAR Partner of the Year — Energy Management

ArcelorMittal USA

Chicago, Illinois

ArcelorMittal USA, one of the largest steel producers in the world, has set a goal to reduce energy intensity in its U.S. operations by 6 percent over a 3 year period. Strong goals and leadership, starting with the company’s owners and extending through all layers of management, contribute to the success of the company’s energy management program. Two years ago, ArcelorMittal partnered with EPA to use ENERGY STAR tools and resources to develop its program. Resulting accomplishments include:

  • Achieving nearly half the savings toward the company’s goal in year one, resulting in a reduction in energy cost of 4 percent on a constant price basis.
  • Establishing corporate energy management as an ongoing process that continues after initial reduction goals are achieved and becomes a company-wide, continuous commitment to energy reduction.
  • Benchmarking energy consumption in all facilities, and comparing energy management systems with those of leading ENERGY STAR partners.
  • Creating best practice sharing groups known as “agoras” across the company’s plants to identify improvements in core processes. Fourteen plants also participated in the no-cost plant energy evaluations provided by the Department of Energy’s Save Energy Now program.

ArcelorMittal has invested in a corporate energy efficiency culture by educating its broad network of internal and external stakeholders and by involving them in energy management. The company has also used resources such as ENERGY STAR worksite posters and the ENERGY STAR Change a Light, Change the World Campaign to activate individual responsibility in energy efficiency, resulting in more than 10,600 pledges to switch to ENERGY STAR qualified lighting in 2007.

To continue making corporate energy management a priority, ArcelorMittal’s President and CEO has established 2008 as a year of operating excellence and energy efficiency.

ArcelorMittal

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Award for Sustained Excellence in Energy Management

3M

St. Paul, Minnesota

3M, a diversified technology company with a worldwide presence in many product markets, operates manufacturing facilities in 37 countries around the world. This is the fourth time 3M has received ENERGY STAR Sustained Excellence recognition. The award honors the company’s efforts to expand its energy management program and realize significant energy savings through an array of successful strategies. Key accomplishments include:

  • Exceeding its goal of reducing energy consumption by 4 percent in 2007 by achieving a 6.4 percent savings, saving $10.6 million in 2007 and more than $100 million since 1990.
  • Achieving a worldwide reduction in the company’s total greenhouse gas emissions of 54 percent from a 1990 base year and working to achieve its aggressive greenhouse gas emissions reduction goal established under EPA’s Climate Leaders program.
  • Launching an initiative to work with raw material suppliers upstream to reduce the energy and carbon footprint of the products they sell to 3M.
  • Working with customers downstream to help them reduce their energy consumption, particularly during the introduction of new 3M products.
  • Successfully exporting its U.S.-based energy management program as a model for international operations and requiring that 3M businesses and country subsidiaries outside the United States produce a plan for achieving their share of the corporate energy efficiency goal.

In addition, 3M’s Optical Systems Division made an important contribution to the development of EPA’s new ENERGY STAR specification for televisions. The new specification addresses the energy used while the TV is on and being viewed, in addition to when it is in standby mode. 3M brought vital information and extensive TV expertise to the ENERGY STAR specification process and provided invaluable assistance in the development of a technology neutral, on-mode specification that will save billions of kilowatt hours in the coming years—all while offering U.S. consumers the very best in terms of feature-rich, high-quality TVs.

3M

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Award for Sustained Excellence in Energy Management

California Portland Cement Company

Glendora, California

California Portland Cement Company (CPC) manufactures cement, concrete, concrete products, and aggregates in the western United States. This is the second time CPC has received ENERGY STAR Sustained Excellence recognition. The award honors CPC’s multi-faceted energy strategy, championed by the company’s CEO, who personally defined the 2007 corporate vision to “continue to be THE leader in energy efficiency within the construction materials industry and set an example for all industrial companies in the United States.” Key accomplishments include:

  • Reducing energy intensity in 2007 by 2.5 percent from 2006 levels for a savings of nearly 363 trillion Btu and $1.8 million.
  • Saving more than $6 million since the program began in earnest in 2003, the equivalent in sales to an additional 3 months of a single plant’s production.
  • Earning the ENERGY STAR for its Colton and Mojave plants.
  • Establishing a new executive-level position for a Director of Energy Services and an Energy Steering Committee consisting of senior executives, energy managers, chief engineers, and plant management. CPC assigned the 16 energy managers the responsibility of accomplishing the goals of the energy program at all major plants and in all divisions.
  • Involving customers in the company’s energy program so that they can share approaches and best practices.

The energy performance of all of CPC’s cement plants rates in the top 25 percent of cement facilities nationally. CPC has achieved this high level through practices such as assessing plants every 2 months, using Toyota’s “treasure hunt” approach to plant assessment. CPC’s implementation of careful plant process controls combined with decisions to invest in new kiln and grinding technologies addresses the areas with the highest energy consumption and potential for reducing energy use. The company occupies a unique position in its industry by also investing in renewable wind power on its property.

Recognizing the environmental benefits of its efforts, CPC shares its energy management expertise extensively outside its business. CPC works with other cement companies to help them develop energy programs. CPC also proudly displays ENERGY STAR signage at its plants and informs others how they can improve energy efficiency in their communities and homes.

CPC is also working to achieve its aggressive greenhouse gas emissions reduction goal established under EPA’s Climate Leaders program.

California Portland Cement Company (CPC)

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Award for Sustained Excellence in Energy Management

Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc.

Erlanger, Kentucky

Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America (TEMA), the North American manufacturing headquarters for Toyota vehicles, embodies the principle “Use only what you need, when you need it, in the amount needed.” Toyota’s energy management program is a sought-after textbook for many U.S. companies that want to benchmark themselves against the auto maker. Toyota had another strong year in 2006, with sustained energy savings of 8 percent per vehicle produced. Since 2002, Toyota has reduced energy consumption per vehicle produced by more than 24 percent. This achievement is based on its consistent deployment of actions from its “kaizen” database of more than 11,000 potential energy projects; expansion of energy audits, or “treasure hunts,” to all plants once per quarter-up from once per year; and extensive use of the ENERGY STAR auto assembly plant energy performance indicator. By the end of 2006, six assembly plants operated by Toyota in the United States had scored in the top quartile of energy use nationally and had earned the ENERGY STAR. Toyota's long-term commitment to energy management has enabled the company to reduce carbon dioxide emissions per vehicle by 20 percent since 2002.Toyota Motor Engineering and Manufacturing North America, Inc., the North American manufacturing headquarters for Toyota vehicles, has long been known for quality products and innovation. As a top business priority, Toyota’s high standards of energy management earned the company its third ENERGY STAR Sustained Excellence recognition. Key accomplishments include:

Achieving an absolute reduction of nearly 4 percent in the amount of energy required to power its operations during 2007, with overall reductions of 16 percent per vehicle in the last 4 years, all while building new plants.

  • Earning the ENERGY STAR label on eight Toyota assembly plants in the last 2 years, including the Georgetown, KY, plant, which produces more than 500,000 vehicles and engines annually.
  • Piloting a new energy campaign called “Green Weekend” during which Toyota shuts down a manufacturing facility and realizes significant reductions in energy use.
  • Expanding energy efficiency efforts to suppliers and their energy requirements, including performing 15 “treasure hunts”—a successful plant energy self-assessment process—with 60 different suppliers to identify efficiency opportunities.
  • Continuing to train other ENERGY STAR partners in performing “treasure hunts” in their facilities.

Toyota set a new goal of reducing energy consumption by 2.7 percent per unit annually between 2007 and 2011. In addition, Toyota helped EPA advance the state of strategic energy management with the corporate planning guide Energy Strategy for the Road Ahead by volunteering staff and executive level experts to help identify the critical energy strategies senior executives need to succeed in the future.

Toyota Motor Engineering

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Award for Sustained Excellence in Energy Management

Ford Motor Company

Dearborn, Michigan

Ford Motor Company is a global automotive industry leader, manufacturing and distributing vehicles in 200 markets across six continents. Continuing its commitment to reduce the environmental impact of producing quality cars and trucks, the company made 2007 a year to build on its commitment to strategically manage energy. This is the first time Ford has received ENERGY STAR Sustained Excellence recognition. Key accomplishments include:

  • Reducing energy use across its U.S. operations by 4.5 percent in 2007, saving an estimated 1.5 trillion Btu of energy, or the energy required to assemble 87,000 Ford Escape Hybrids.
  • Reducing energy use by nearly 30 percent since 2000.
  • Earning the ENERGY STAR label for superior energy performance for seven automobile assembly plants and office buildings.

Ford follows EPA’s ENERGY STAR Guidelines for Energy Management. The company relies heavily on benchmarking facility energy consumption and has adapted the ENERGY STAR auto assembly plant energy performance indicator into a custom application to track and evaluate the energy efficiency of its U.S. assembly plants. Ford uses the data for trending, gap analysis, and identifying improvement opportunities.

In 2007, Ford Motor Company continued its investment in plant upgrades by using energy performance contracts and reducing off-shift energy use through effective non-production shutdown best practices. A leader in technology innovation, Ford focused on energy intensive operations like paint application and its industry-leading 3-Wet painting process, and further developed its Fumes to Fuel strategy. In addition, as a result of the EPA Report to Congress on Server and Data Center Energy Efficiency, the company embraced a new energy management opportunity to reduce the impact of data centers on the environment. Through a partnership with Hewlett-Packard, Ford developed a 3 year program to consolidate all of its computer data centers globally. When complete, Ford expects to reduce energy use in this application by 90 percent.

Ford actively promotes its partnership with ENERGY STAR and communicates its achievements to employees, suppliers, dealerships, and customers. The company’s energy team shares practical home energy efficiency tips and ENERGY STAR materials with employees and also partners with local schools and universities.

Ford Motor Company

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Award for Sustained Excellence in Energy Management

PepsiCo

Purchase, New York

PepsiCo is recognized as a world leader in the convenience food and beverage markets. It is also a world leader in managing energy as part of advancing the corporation’s long-term business and environmental strategies. This is the first time PepsiCo has received ENERGY STAR Sustained Excellence recognition. Key accomplishments of this company include:

  • Beating its 2007 energy saving target of 4 percent from 2006 levels with almost double the savings, resulting in more than $20 million in energy bill savings. That is equal to the sale of 14 million gallons of Tropicana Premium Orange Juice© or 28 million bags of SunChips©.
  • Saving more than $250 million since the inception of its corporate energy management program in 2000.
  • Refining its energy management program following EPA’s Guidelines for Energy Management. The result makes each of the company’s plants accountable for contributing to the overall corporate energy goal and for developing an action plan that can deliver 150 percent of the target.
  • Catalyzing investment in energy efficiency projects by recognizing that energy projects are often some of the least risky for capital investment. As part of this effort, PepsiCo requires capital expenditures of more than $5 million to undergo a “sustainability filter” and then allows the beneficial projects a simple payback period of 5 years (longer than the industry standard).
  • Establishing a well-recognized strategic business partner outreach program through which PepsiCo requires all large vendors, anchor bottlers, and contract manufacturing operations to join ENERGY STAR, establish energy efficiency programs, and use EPA’s energy management tools.

PepsiCo also continues to work hand in hand with EPA’s ENERGY STAR program as its energy management efforts evolve, highlighting ENERGY STAR as “the industry standard for a successful energy management system.” PepsiCo is an EPA Climate Leaders Partner and has been recognized as the largest Green Power purchaser in the country as part of EPA’s Green Power Partnership.

PepsiCo

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Award for Sustained Excellence in Energy Management

Merck & Co., Inc.

Whitehouse Station, New Jersey

Merck & Co., Inc., is a global research-driven pharmaceutical company known for vaccines and medicines. It is a leading example of a company with committed senior executives and an advanced energy strategy that creates a corporate-wide, results-oriented energy efficiency culture. This is the first time Merck & Co. has received ENERGY STAR Sustained Excellence recognition. Key accomplishments for this company include:

  • Achieving energy savings on the order of 20 percent of its current corporate-wide energy savings goal through 2007.
  • Earning the ENERGY STAR label for its corporate headquarters and manufacturing division headquarters buildings.
  • Reducing energy consumption by nearly 50 percent over the past 8 years.
  • Leading efforts to share energy management best practices across industries and among other ENERGY STAR partners.

Merck has undertaken efforts to move its energy management program to the next level by finding hidden energy savings opportunities. For example, in 2007, the company invested in a series of plant recommissioning projects where facility support systems were analyzed for performance relative to their original designs. Additionally, submetering was installed to better enable the corporation to assess energy use. These investments are expected to sustain savings in future years. Merck senior management continued to make employees part of the solution by communicating their aggressive energy goals to everyone. To encourage employees’ efforts, a reward system was implemented to provide prizes, such as payment of a home energy bill, for demonstrating excellence in personal energy use in the workplace.

In 2007, Merck’s leaders collaborated on a groundbreaking report designed for senior business executives called Energy Strategy for the Road Ahead, which promotes working up and downstream of a company to manage energy, in addition to making internal improvements. Merck has already established an external manufacturing organization to work with suppliers to manage their energy impacts. Merck has also set a corporate-wide energy savings goal of reducing energy intensity 25 percent by 2008 relative to 2004, and has pledged to reduce total global greenhouse gas emissions by 12 percent from 2004 to 2012 through EPA’s Climate Leaders program.

Merck & Co., Inc.

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Award for Sustained Excellence in Energy Management

Raytheon Company

Waltham, Massachusetts

Raytheon Company is a technology leader specializing in aerospace defense and related supply systems. This is the first time Raytheon has received ENERGY STAR Sustained Excellence recognition. The award honors Raytheon’s outstanding accomplishments, from its corporate-wide energy management program to the creation of a true energy efficiency culture among the company’s 73,000 employees. Key accomplishments include:

  • Achieving an almost 4 percent reduction in energy consumption in 2007 alone, equivalent to reducing the company’s overhead costs by $9 million and equating to an additional $90 million in annual revenues.
  • Reducing energy consumption on an absolute basis by close to 12 percent over the past 5 years, despite an increase in revenue of $6.6 billion.
  • Enrolling more than 1,500 employees as Energy Champions, introducing a new employee energy efficiency education campaign, engaging employees’ children in a “Kids R Cool” contest, and recognizing winning photographs about energy, the environment, climate change, and similar issues in a 2008 employee calendar.

In response to the release of Energy Strategy for the Road Ahead, a new report assessing business risks and opportunities and the future of energy and the environment, Raytheon’s corporate leadership encouraged a new look at its management strategy for energy-related risks to business performance. After taking an even more critical look at its own energy impacts, the company expanded its strategy to work “upstream” with its suppliers and “downstream” on the energy use in the products Raytheon sells customers. Raytheon has pledged to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in its U.S. operations by 33 percent per dollar of revenue from 2002 to 2009 through EPA’s Climate Leaders program.

PepsiCo

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ENERGY STAR Partner of the Year — Energy Management

The Dow Chemical Company

Midland, Michigan

The Dow Chemical Company is one of the largest chemical producers in the world, with annual sales approaching $54 billion. A diversified company, its products are used in water purification, pharmaceuticals, paints, packaging, and personal care products. Dow is a leader within the chemical industry because of its commitment to sustainability and corporate energy management. The CEO has announced aggressive goals to reduce the company’s energy intensity by 25 percent and greenhouse gas emissions by 2.5 percent annually by 2015. The 2015 sustainability goals grew out of the success of the previous 10 years, during which Dow reduced energy intensity by 22 percent and saved more than $4 billion. These results correspond to saving 900 trillion Btus and preventing an estimated 51 million metric tons of carbon dioxide emissions. Key accomplishments include:

  • Reducing the average energy intensity from its U.S. operations by nearly 2.5 percent per year from the base year 2004 through 2007, saving the equivalent of nearly 47 trillion Btus and $325 million.
  • Instituting a world-class, comprehensive corporate energy management program that has the personal support of senior leadership and all business units.

Dow maintains a Strategy Board of senior leaders charged with anticipating energy and climate impacts and opportunities for business. An extensive corporate energy management system and network supported by local energy managers in each facility promotes efficiency in this energy intensive business. Energy measurement, tracking, benchmarking, and reporting play a significant role in goal setting and planning. In addition to improving the energy efficiency of existing assets, Dow undertakes formal reviews to ensure the company optimizes the energy use of new manufacturing capacity.

Dow actively promotes energy efficiency in its industry and unveiled its energy and climate change vision document titled “Working to Solve the World’s Energy and Climate Challenges” in 2007. The company joined Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and China’s Energy Research Institute to develop a program aimed at supporting China’s efforts to improve energy efficiency and reduce energy intensity. Also in 2007, Dow was recognized by the American Chemistry Council with the Responsible Care Energy Efficiency Award for exceeding its energy efficiency goals.

An active ENERGY STAR partner, Dow is also involved with DOE’s Save Energy Now Program and numerous energy efficiency campaigns with The Alliance to Save Energy. Company staff serve on the National Association of Manufacturer’s Energy Efficiency Task Force. Dow is a partner in EPA’s Climate Leaders program.

DOW

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