Manufacturing plants and other large, open warehouse environments with high ceilings have a host of unique design and maintenance challenges, including air quality, employee safety and comfort, energy costs, and temperature control. High-volume, low-speed (HVLS) fans installed as a complement to HVAC systems, significantly improve employee comfort and health while saving substantial amounts of energy by making existing heating and ventilation systems more efficient.

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Each 8- by 10-ft. dock doorway is an escape hatch for conditioned air and a means for outside weather to invade the building. In many busy facilities, the dock door is rarely shut. Often that occurs because forklifts have damaged the door, rendering it ineffective and difficult to close. Here are eight ways to maximize energy savings in the dock area:

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AP Exhaust’s employees use lift trucks to pick and ship up to 31,000 automotive exhaust products per day. The manufacturer converted its in-plant fleet to new all-electric lift trucks that have increased load, lift, and acceleration capacities that enable it to use fewer trucks to achieve its workload goals.

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Because an industrial dust collector is designed to clean a factory’s environment of dust and fumes, it is inherently green. But a properly designed dust collection system can contribute to sustainability in many other ways as well.

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Energy can be recovered via energy-from-waste (EfW) processes from residual waste left over after efforts to reduce, reuse, and recycle have been exhausted. The process is simple: Solid and liquid waste is transferred to a combustion chamber; the heat from the process boils water, which makes steam which drives a turbine that generates electricity.

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UL Environment recently launched its new waste diversion validation program and introduced at the Green Manufacturer Network Take on the Zero Waste to Landfill Challenge on June 12 in Portland, Ore. The validation program is intended to provide third-party validation of a company’s claim to have achieved zero landfill status or to have diverted a percentage of its waste from landfill deposition.

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The snacks start as locally sourced fresh crop potatoes or whole grain corn and must end up meeting a gold standard for moisture specification, clump formation, finished oil content, flavor, texture, appearance, and other characteristics—right down to the number of blisters per chip.

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