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EPA Awards Rohm and Haas Kankakee Facility

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By: KERRY PIANOFORTE

Editor, Coatings World

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has awarded Rohm and Haas Kankakee, IL facility with their National Environmental Performance Track Award for progress toward achieving environmental performance goals and the breadth and challenge of those goals.
The Rohm and Haas Kankakee site was acknowledged for reducing total energy consumption by 28%, water usage by more than four million gallons or 12%, and eliminating its use of ferric chloride by developing a replacement process with their local municipality. The award is in recognition of improvements recorded in 2006. These achievements were reached even as its production increased by 18%.
“Results are what are most important to the EPA,” said Kevin Traynor, plant manager. “We drove our efforts to deliver a more environmentally-friendly facility and maintained a competitive position at the same time.” The Kankakee plant manufactures water-based polymers for the paint and coatings industry.

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