BENTON HARBOR, Mich.,
Oct. 30, 2017 /PRNewswire/
-- For the third year in a row, Whirlpool Corporation's
Integrated Supply Chain organization has received the Environmental
Protection Agency (EPA) SmartWay® Excellence Award. The
SmartWay Excellence Award represents the EPA's highest recognition
for demonstrated leadership in freight supply-chain energy and
environmental performance. The program recognizes just one percent
of the EPA's more than 3,000 top freight supply-chain partners.
Whirlpool Corporation is one of only 11 companies to receive the
distinction this year, and was recognized in the large shipper
category, which represents companies that move products more than
500 million miles annually.
Whirlpool Corporation is also included in the first-ever EPA
SmartWay High Performer list.
The new High Performer distinction is given to SmartWay partners
with top-ranked performance inefficiency and/or air quality
performance.
"We are honored to receive this prestigious award from the EPA,
and are proud to have earned it three years in a row," said
Alison Jones, senior director,
Customer Fulfillment. "We are driven by a strategy to ship our
products as environmentally efficient as possible, and we
appreciate that our strategy is widely recognized. This recognition
is testament to our leadership and commitment to optimizing the
environmental performance of our operations."
Whirlpool Corporation and other honorees - representing a broad
range of businesses including retail trade, manufacturers, and food
producers - were formally recognized at a ceremony Monday, October 23, at the 2017 American Trucking
Associations (ATA) Annual Management Conference and Exhibition in
Orlando, FL. Kara Hegg, manager, Supply Chain Sustainability,
accepted the award on behalf of the company.
"Since 2004, EPA and the business community have collaborated
through the SmartWay Partnership to reduce the economic and
environmental costs of goods movement, a vital sector of our
national economy," said Christopher
Grundler, director of the EPA's Office of Transportation
& Air Quality, "This year's award-winning freight carriers,
shippers and third-party logistics companies demonstrate that they
can move more goods, more miles, while using less fuel. These firms
are not only serving the growing needs of their customers -- they
are also doing their part to keep our environment clean and protect
human health."
The EPA SmartWay program, launched in 2004, helps companies
advance supply chain sustainability and promotes clean, efficient
freight transportation. Since 2004, SmartWay Partners have saved
170.3 million barrels of oil—the equivalent of eliminating annual
energy use in over 6 million homes and $24.9
billion in fuel costs.
Whirlpool Corporation requires contracted carriers to be
SmartWay certified. Currently, 99.79% of North American shipments
for the company are moved with SmartWay carriers. In 2016,
Whirlpool Corporation dropped its total fuel consumption by more
than 53-thousand gallons by increasing rail transportation and
decreasing fuel usage on the road. This resulted in 540 fewer
metric tons of carbon emissions for the year.
Read more about EPA's SmartWay program here.
See a complete list of 2017 SmartWay Excellence Award Recipients
here.
See a complete list of 2017 SmartWay High Performers here.
About Whirlpool Corporation
Whirlpool
Corporation (NYSE: WHR) is the number one major appliance
manufacturer in the world, with approximately $21 billion in annual sales, 93,000 employees and
70 manufacturing and technology research centers in 2016. The
company markets Whirlpool, KitchenAid, Maytag,
Consul, Brastemp, Amana, Bauknecht,
Jenn-Air, Indesit and other major brand names in
nearly every country throughout the world. Additional information
about the company can be found at WhirlpoolCorp.com, or find us on
Twitter at @WhirlpoolCorp.
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