Summary of Other Plant Activities
Corning Cable Systems’ Hickory Cable Facility located in Hickory, NC, is a corporate leader in its environmental initiatives. The facility’s recycling, waste reduction, water conservation and energy savings initiatives, combined with a focus on educating internal employees, led to a mentoring partnership with its home county to educate other businesses on how to become more environmentally responsible.
Most recently, the Hickory Cable Facility received the North Carolina Environmental Stewardship Award from the N.C. Department of Environment and Natural Resources, becoming one of only nine facilities ever to receive the award.
The Hickory Cable Facility isn’t the only Corning Cable Systems location with a focus on green initiatives. Locations across the globe are also taking steps to reduce their impact on the environment and educate employees on how to do the same.
“It’s a Green Thang!” at Keller, Texas, Manufacturing Facility
At Corning Cable Systems’ Keller, Texas, facility, the “It’s a Green Thang!” program is designed to look at ways individuals as well as the facility can conserve energy and resources to reduce their impact on the environment.
By evaluating the facility’s lighting system and changing to more energy-efficient lighting, the location avoided millions of pounds of greenhouse gas emissions, the equivalent of planting more than 600 trees every week or planting almost 400 acres of forest per year. Additional initiatives are in process.
“It’s a Green Thang” also educates employees on how they can use the same environmentally friendly processes at home. Every employee was given a florescent light bulb for personal use and was educated on the proper way to dispose of old light bulbs. Coupons to a local nursery were supplied so that employees could begin planting for the future at home, and they can earn more free light bulbs by purchasing additional trees.
“Corning Cable Systems green improvements at the Keller location are off to a great start,” said the Keller facility plant manager. “We’ve implemented several projects that reduced our carbon footprint 27 percent since late 2006. Our power consumption, energy costs, plant conditions and environmental impact have all been positively improved."
“We’re confident our employees have more Green ideas to explore – many of which they can apply at home and in the community as well.”