SmartWay Excellence Honorees Detail Best Practices
The expanded use of CNG-powered trucks has helped Pitt Ohio reduce both its carbon footprint and fuel costs. Photo: Mack Trucks
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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s SmartWay sustainability program recently announced its 2017 Excellence Award winners. The annual event honors SmartWay participants that lead their industries in improving freight efficiency and contributing to cleaner air within their supply chains. The awardees are chosen from over 3,600 companies and organizations participating in SmartWay program.
This week, three of the program’s Excellence Award fleet honorees detailed the best practices that have helped gain recognition by SmartWay for their efforts in reducing their corporate carbon footprint and meet major sustainability goals set by their companies.
Kimberly-Clark
Stelios Chrysandreas is the North American transportation manager for paper products producer Kimberly-Clark. Chrysandreas is based in Knoxville, Tennessee, and tasked with delivering the lowest cost transportation costs and best possible service for the giant paper producer.
Kimberly-Clark joined SmartWay in 2006 when the company realized it needed an independent way of measuring how well it was doing on meeting its internal sustainability goals compared to the rest of the paper and transportation industries, Chrysandreas said during a webinar hosted by SmartWay on Jan. 17. Within a couple of years, however, he realized that SmartWay was an enabler that would help him expand the importance of Kimberly-Clark’s transportation division and play a larger role in the company’s sustainability plan.
Chrysandreas said he realized early on that as a large shipper, Kimberly-Clark had a big responsibility to talk to the outside carriers it was using and get them involved in SmartWay as well. And as that process unfolded, it led to fewer carriers unloading trucks and more drop-and-hook operations, which Chrysandreas said reduces both wait times for driver as well as idle time for vehicles.
Another key Kimberly-Clark tactic was to target the increased use …Read the rest of this story
