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Is LED right for MFG?
12 lighting manufacturers say "It depends" or "Yes siree!"
LED's energy efficiency, safety, and light quality are well-documented. But is it right for use in factories? A dozen lighting manufacturers answered. Some maintain that light-emitting diodes (LEDs) are suitable for niche applications in industrial plants but are not ready to replace metal halide and fluorescent bulbs; others assert that LED is full on ready to light high-bay and area lighting.
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LED lighting retrofit is organic for ecoresponsible food producer
WhiteWave rides the crest of future high-bay lighting
WhiteWave implemented a 650-fixture high-bay LED lighting retrofit throughout its Virginia plant that saves $15,000 per month in electricity, eliminates most of the maintenance required to change out fixtures, and reduces the cold warehouse chiller energy consumption by a third. The greatest savings came as a result of the low maintenance. The LEDs in the cold storage area are expected to last about 12 years.
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Sage Supplier: How North American manufacturers are supplying to solar
Thinking outside the module
Many North American manufacturers have gotten into the solar energy industry as suppliers.
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Bioenergy fuels green paper mills
Cogeneration creates revenue source, enhances cost-effectiveness
Many resourceful manufacturers are turning their solid waste streams into clean, renewable biofuel power sources. Biofuel generates electricity, heat, or steam. Increasingly modern biofuel technology incorporates cogeneration capabilities, also called combined heat and power (CHP), to produce both electricity and heat or steam from one fuel source. For one particularly energy-intensive industry—pulp and paper manufacturing—biofuel has long been a fuel of choice. Some paper manufacturers are substantial producers of bioenergy that they sell to utilities.
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Optimal handling of end-of-life electronics means recycling
How to eliminate your e-waste problem
Electronic waste is growing, 50-million-tons-a-year problem. When electronics' toxic components are dumping in landfills, they create a hazardous legacy for current and future generations.
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Under Cover: Motorcycle takes zero to the streets
Electric vehicle goes 114 miles on a charge, 88 mph
Zero™ Motorcycles' model Zero S with Z-Force™ technology and it's ZF9 power pack can go 114 miles on the EPA's UDDS range test and speeds up to 88 MPH.
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Mining the green manufacturing gold mine
When food manufacturer WhiteWave Plant Engineer Toby Duveneck sought ways to cut costs in the company's Virginia plant, he looked at green initiatives. "That particular year [2009], our volume was not going to be as strong as we had projected it to be. We're a cost center, so we worry about our budget, what our [...]
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Earth Day; humble beginnings, mighty influence
It shouldn?t take a village to raise an iPhone
Kate Bachman, Editor
Green Manufacturer