03.11.16
The PPG commercial coatings group and the National Association of Trailer Manufacturers (NATM) honored CAM Superline with the 2016 Green Manufacturing Award. Based in Waynesboro, Pennsylvania, CAM Superline manufactures dumper trailers for the construction and excavating industries. The award was presented to company president Sandy Poffenberger at the 28th annual NATM national convention and trade show held in Las Vegas at the South Point Hotel Feb. 10–12.
The Green Manufacturing Award honors the NATM member with the year’s best solution or innovation that has a positive impact on the environment. This may include improvements in material utilization, design advancement, process or equipment enhancements, emissions reductions, recycling methods and other environmentally sensitive areas. CAM Superline earned the 2016 award by adopting several green technologies and practices that reduced both its impact on the environment and its costs. Steps CAM Superline took included:
Ron Yarnell, PPG OEM sales manager, states that the Green Manufacturing Award was established to encourage NATM members to implement ecologically sound programs. Award contenders must present case studies that demonstrate improved, ecologically conscious performance in their operations. Entrants are also required to provide documentation of the green initiatives they have implemented. Entries are judged by the NATM executive committee.
“We at PPG believe that we have a responsibility to minimize the impact of our operations on the environment,” Yarnell said. “When we see a company like CAM Superline make significant improvements in the way it works, and those improvements benefit the environment, then we know our commitment and our investment in the Green Manufacturing Award is the right thing to do.”
Yarnell also pointed out that the Green Manufacturing Award has become the trailer industry’s most important annual charitable event. This year, several trailer-related companies—Optronics International, Dexter Axle, the Carlstar Group and Champion Hoist—joined major sponsor PPG in supporting the award.
The NATM represents manufacturers of light- and medium-duty trailers as well as a wide range of suppliers to the industry. The organization promotes universal recognition of safety and quality in trailer manufacturing to the trailer industry and the general public. NATM works to improve the trailer industry through the promotion of compliance with its guidelines and other initiatives. The association has more than 800 member companies in the United States, Canada, Mexico and other countries.
The Green Manufacturing Award honors the NATM member with the year’s best solution or innovation that has a positive impact on the environment. This may include improvements in material utilization, design advancement, process or equipment enhancements, emissions reductions, recycling methods and other environmentally sensitive areas. CAM Superline earned the 2016 award by adopting several green technologies and practices that reduced both its impact on the environment and its costs. Steps CAM Superline took included:
- Upgrading to energy-efficient lighting for its manufacturing facility, both inside (moved to T5 high bay fluorescent lighting from 400-watt mercury-vapor lighting) and outside (moved to high-efficiency LED lighting with daylight sensors and property lights), which cut energy costs in half;
- Replacing use of a contaminant pre-paint wash containing phosphate and molybdenum, which could harm humans, fish and wildlife through polluted wastewater feeding into the Chesapeake Bay watershed, with a zirconium-based wash, and then increasing operational efficiency to reduce the amount of zirconium-based wash used by 28 percent over two years;
- Decreasing volatile organic compound (VOC) emissions from paint processes by more than 1,800 pounds between 2013 and 2015, despite a 15 percent increase in trailer production;
- Implementing recycling and reuse programs throughout the company for cardboard, paper, wood, steel, toner cartridges and skids; and
- Cultivating land that the company owns but doesn't use for its operations to farm sorghum – a high-energy, drought-tolerant crop for livestock feed that requires one-third less water for production compared to other feedstocks.
Ron Yarnell, PPG OEM sales manager, states that the Green Manufacturing Award was established to encourage NATM members to implement ecologically sound programs. Award contenders must present case studies that demonstrate improved, ecologically conscious performance in their operations. Entrants are also required to provide documentation of the green initiatives they have implemented. Entries are judged by the NATM executive committee.
“We at PPG believe that we have a responsibility to minimize the impact of our operations on the environment,” Yarnell said. “When we see a company like CAM Superline make significant improvements in the way it works, and those improvements benefit the environment, then we know our commitment and our investment in the Green Manufacturing Award is the right thing to do.”
Yarnell also pointed out that the Green Manufacturing Award has become the trailer industry’s most important annual charitable event. This year, several trailer-related companies—Optronics International, Dexter Axle, the Carlstar Group and Champion Hoist—joined major sponsor PPG in supporting the award.
The NATM represents manufacturers of light- and medium-duty trailers as well as a wide range of suppliers to the industry. The organization promotes universal recognition of safety and quality in trailer manufacturing to the trailer industry and the general public. NATM works to improve the trailer industry through the promotion of compliance with its guidelines and other initiatives. The association has more than 800 member companies in the United States, Canada, Mexico and other countries.
