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ages clients in its e-commerce business unit to use sustainable recyclable shipping containers, which has enhanced its client’s sustainability efforts, as well as RLS Logistics. RLS Logistics has developed dashboards from its power company, which detail carbon foot print comparisons.
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Viking Cold has saved clients over 7,974
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reduced carbon footprint by 4,400
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www.romarklogistics.com Romark Logistics is a pioneer in reducing its carbon footprint, thus benefiting the customers they serve. Its facilities have implemented solar initiatives, LED lighting upgrades, baler and compactor use, recycling programs, chemical reduced pest control management, paperless invoicing, and employee incentives to reduce non-driving emissions. Romark Logistics measures its energy initiatives through several internal tracking programs on the solar panel side. The company also tracks energy consumption at its facilities pre- and post-installation of solar and LED materials to measure savings. In addition, Romark implements internal KPI (key performance indicator) programs to track its sustainable footprint throughout the country.
Ryder www.ryder.com Everything Ryder does, from optimizing logistics networks to deploying advanced fuel vehicles in fleets, is about making its customers’ food and beverage supply chain operations more efficient. This efficiency also has environmental benefits. The area where Ryder has seen the biggest impact is in helping companies deploy natural gas vehicles (NGV) into its fleets. In fact, they are the industry leader in NGV solutions for the commercial transportation industry. Ryder has
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made the upfront investment in vehicles, maintenance and fueling infrastructure to help other businesses deploy NGV technology into its fleets. Today, the company has achieved 100 million miles with its NGV fleet operations, eliminating more than 35,269 269 MTCO2e (metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent) of greenhouse gas emissions. Ryder also has replaced approximately 15.4 million gallons of diesel fuel with lower emission domestically produced natural gas. Ryder currently has 22 NGV maintenance facilities, with more than 5,500 NGV trained maintenance and support personnel.
Transportation Insight www.transportationinsight.com Transportation Insight helps food and beverage clients establish sustainable business practices and reduce its environmental impact through its customized Enterprise Logistics Solutions anchored in a robust suite of services. Those services include a bundled technology solution that helps clients optimize loads and minimize miles travelled through its cloud-based TMS, Insight TMS, and cloud-based interactive business intelligence portal, Insight Fusion. Supply chain analytics are driven by Extended LEAN continuous improvement methodology and integrated analytics that enable clients to minimize its supply chains’ carbon footprints through strategic network design, tactical transportation optimization studies and continuous improvement updates to maintain efficiencies. Transportation Insight leverages logistics operation with an ever-expanding carrier network to match freight and assets and minimize empty miles.
Viking Cold Solutions www.vikingcold.com Viking Cold Solutions provides passive Thermal Energy Storage (TES) solutions for the commercial freezer space that can run for efficiency, load shifting or peak de-
mand reduction, meaning customers can decide how they want to use energy, and when they want to buy it. By complementing an existing refrigeration system with its passive thermal cells containing Phase Change Material and advanced controls, Viking Cold Solutions is enabling greater refrigeration efficiency and 24/7 temperature monitoring. Viking Cold has saved clients over 7,974 MWh (megawatt hour), reduced carbon footprint by 4,400 metric tons, and prevented millions of dollars of product loss. Its TES solutions have been recommended for California’s Energy Efficiency Incentive Program after an independent utility study confirmed energy savings of over 30 percent.
WSI (Warehouse Specialists LLC) www.wsinc.com WSI prioritizes sustainability for its food and beverage customers by recycling large amounts of its cardboard and dunnage materials, manufacturing dunnage materials for the clients from previously used wood, using recently installed energy-efficient lighting, and increasingly using electric forklifts in its facilities to handle product. Wooden pallets are reused and repurposed frequently, where applicable. Additionally, green landscaping outside of its warehouses helps reduce the effects of storm water runoff and save costs on overhead by eliminating the need for lawn mowing. WSI recycles, reuses or repurposes nearly 100 percent of its top three largest facilities’ waste. At its high-volume Chicago facility and large Central Wisconsin facilities, nearly 100 percent of the wooden pallets used for storing product are reused. Mandatory requirements in the offices of each facility result in 100 percent of office paper and cardboard waste being recycled. WSI employees are actively engaged in community stewardship and volunteer work. Many employees telecommute, saving fuel and reducing pollution and road congestion. www.foodlogistics.com
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