BASF's Freeport Facility Wins National Energy Efficiency Award
November 12 2004 - 3:13PM
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BASF's Freeport Facility Wins National Energy Efficiency Award
American Chemistry Council Honors Site for 'Exceptional' Energy
Conservation Programs FREEPORT, Texas, Nov. 12
/PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- BASF's Freeport site has been recognized
by the American Chemistry Council (ACC) as a winner of the
organization's 2003 "Energy Efficiency Award." The ACC announced
the award today during a conference at its offices in Arlington,
Va. BASF has now won the award 11 times, and, with this award, was
one of only five companies to receive the ACC's prestigious
"Exceptional Merit" designation. During a three-month period in
2003, BASF's Freeport Site Energy Team implemented a number of
practices and procedures that resulted in a savings of $2.8 million
in energy costs and an annual net carbon dioxide emissions
reduction of approximately 2,700 tons. "The ACC congratulates BASF
on its accomplishment. These awards publicly recognize that energy
efficiency projects not only reduce greenhouse gases and other
emissions but also add appreciably to each company's bottom line,"
said Charles Van Vlack, Executive Vice President of the ACC. "It's
a win-win situation for the country, because the improvements
protect the environment while helping American business compete
globally." "As the world's leading chemical company, BASF is
committed not only to making products better but also to the values
and principles of Sustainable Development," said Art Colwell, Vice
President and General Manager of BASF's Freeport site. "Thanks to
the innovative thinking and teamwork of the BASF team, we are
delivering substantive results in support of environmental
excellence." Specifically, the actions BASF took that resulted in
the savings and reductions included improving waste burning
practices, "mothballing" a partially loaded thermal oxidizer and
shifting its load to another partially loaded unit, changing
minimum "fire set-points" on two steam generators, and various
tuning, operational and maintenance improvements. "A lot of the
credit for this award is owed to BASF's overall energy management
structure," said Thomas Theising, BASF's Manager of Energy Systems
and Energy Audit Team Leader in Freeport. "Our energy auditing
process is a modified version of conventional energy auditing which
results in 'deep- seating' energy conservation and energy awareness
into the manufacturing site's culture. BASF method goes beyond the
conventional, with in-depth involvement of production personnel and
a 'question everything' design of reviewing current practices. We
also try to have as diverse a cross section of the facility as we
can get, from operations, to maintenance, to purchasing, to
accounting, to engineering. The result is better approaches and
solutions because of the collective intelligence of the group."
BASF's Freeport site employs almost 600 employees and 300
contractors and produces chemicals that are used in a wide range of
product applications including adhesives, superabsorbers, paints
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