more,” Stangeland says. “This doesn’t. We only had to
make some changes to the dryers to make sure they
could handle it. The contract for the gas is quite attractive.”
Be A Sustainability Trend Setter
Mark Mathes, CEO, Vanguard Packaging Inc., invites
companies to jump on the sustainability bandwagon for
the right reasons. “Sustainability only works if it is economically viable and our facility proves it is not only economically viable but it also can save significant costs,”
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says Mathes of the company’s Kansas City, Mo., facility,
which is located at the Hunt Midwest Sub Tropolis, the
world’s largest underground business complex. The geothermal properties of the underground environment mean
the company consumes zero energy when heating its
facility.
“People think sustainability costs money,” Mathes adds.
“It not only saves us money and lowers our costs but it
also captures business. Companies that want to get in the
sustainability game find the first step is to deal with ven-
Vanguard, our customers’ sustainabil-
ity efforts are automatically elevated.”
That elevation is because Vanguard
Packaging, which designs and manu-
factures corrugated packaging, dis-
plays and merchandisers, has imple-
mented several measures to position
itself as a leader in sustainability
practices in its industry. By working
with its automated scrap removal
equipment vendor in designing the
equipment, Vanguard Packaging has
reduced the energy required to
power these historically inefficient
systems by 40 percent. The particular
system, developed by GF Puhl, is
expected to become the new industry
standard.
It didn’t take long to realize the
savings on the investment. “I can tell
you between the energy efficiency of
our waste system and value of the
scrap it collects, in our initial investment we looked at a four-year payback, and at this point, the payback
will only take one year,” Mathes says.
This positive experience has
caused Vanguard Packaging to
require all of its machinery vendors
to reengineer equipment to realize
energy savings.
In regard to its waste streams,
Vanguard Packaging treats all its
process wastewater before discharging it. It also prevents 95 percent of
its waste from going to a landfill. The
company segregates and recycles
everything that can be segregated and
captured. Once that step is complete,
the waste is further segregated into
two categories. Compactor A, 5 percent of the company’s waste, goes to
the landfill. Compactor B’s waste
heads to Lafarge in Independence,
Mo., as part of the cement manufacturer’s alternative solid fuel program,
where it is incinerated at 3,000
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For information contact:
Brennan Wood – Director
435-865-5115 Office
435-233-0055 Mobile
wbrennan@cedarcity.org
