Dow, Serious Materials, Shaw Among 32 Firms in New DOE Energy Leader Program

Published December 10, 2009

WASHINGTON, DC — Thirty-two firms -- including big names in building materials, equipment and automation, IT, telecom, forest products and chemistry -- have pledged to cut their industrial energy intensity by 25 percent over the next decade as part of a new U.S. Department of Energy program.

The companies, listed below, signed the commitment last week when Energy Secretary Steven Chu launched the Save Energy Now LEADER Program.

The leadership program is a new component of the Save Energy Now campaign, whose efforts in the past three years have included energy assessments at 2,000 plants and yielded $1.3 billion in identified cost savings, 119 trillion Btu of natural gas savings and 11.2 million metric tons of CO2 savings, according to the DOE.

Participants in the new program expect to obtain technical assistance and resources from the agency in order to fulfill their pledge.

"These companies' commitments to energy efficiency not only generate significant energy and carbon savings, but also show the entire business community the profitable steps that can be taken to move us all toward a clean energy future," said Chu, in kicking off the program. "Working together with American manufacturers, we will leverage the potential of energy efficiency to create new jobs, make our economy more competitive, and reduce carbon pollution."

The companies signing the pledge were:

3M (St. Paul, MN)
AT&T (Dallas, TX)
BPM, Inc. (Peshtigo, WI)
Bridgestone (McMinnville, TN)
Briggs & Stratton (Wauwatosa, WI)
Cummins, Inc. (Columbus, IN)
Danfoss (Baltimore, MD)
Didion Milling (Johnson Creek, WI)
The Dow Chemical Company (Midland, MI)
Flambeau River Papers (Park Falls, WI)
Honeywell (Morristown, NJ)
Ingersoll Rand/Trane (Piscataway, NJ)
Intel (Santa Clara, CA)
JR Simplot (Boise, ID)
Manitowoc Grey Iron Foundry (Manitowoc, WI)
Mohawk Industries (Dalton, GA)
Neenah Foundry (Neenah, WI)
Nissan North America (Smyrna, TN)
Osram Sylvania (Danvers, MA)
Owens Corning (Toledo, OH)
PPG Industries (Pittsburgh, PA)
Quad/Graphics, Inc. (Sussex, WI)
Schneider Electric (Palatine, IL)
Serious Materials (Sunnyvale, CA)
Shaw Industries (Dalton, GA)
Sherwin-Williams, Richmond (Richmond, KY)
Spirax Sarco, Inc. (Blythewood, SC)
Thilmany Papers (Kaukauna, WI)
ThyssenKrupp Waupaca (Waupaca, WI)
United Technologies Corp. (Hartford, CT)
Verso Paper (Memphis, TN)
Volvo Trucks, Inc. (Dublin, VA)

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