American Chemical's green initiative

Green thinking in our offices:

  • Recycle all office paper, cardboard and boxes and aluminum cans.
  • Filtered water instead of bottled water.
  • Magazines and newspapers shared by employees.
  • Provides direct deposit to employees, vendors, and customers saving paper and postage.
  • Reusable dishes in our break room.
  • Everyone in the company is involved in our green plan.

Green thinking in our shipping and warehouse departments:

  • Reuse boxes that can be reused, break down and recycle the rest.
  • Reuse shipping peanuts, offered to us by local retail stores.
  • Reuse shipping pallets offered to us by local businesses.
  • Recycle all 30 & 55 gallon drums, also recycle totes.
  • Keep temperature down in the warehouse during the winter, but above freezing.
  • Consolidate ordering raw materials to reduce gas consumption and save on shipping costs.
  • Incorporate green into existing sourcing and procurement processes
  • Always consider waste stream reduction.

Green thinking in our buildings maintenance:

  • Exterior building lights changed to low energy fluorescent.
  • Changed interior lighting from T12 to T8.
  • Maintain flowers and shrubs on grounds for water runoff and reduce erosion.
  • Multiple tenants share resources, to conserve in all areas.
  • Encourages all other tenants to recycle also.
  • Participate in Excel Energy's savings program during the summer months.

Green thinking passed forward to our customers:

  • Encourage customers to use spray adhesives packaged in returnable canisters.
  • Offer our customer green certified alternative adhesives.
  • Keeping our customers and sales staff up with new green materials, technologies and processes.
  • Keeping our customers aware of current green global regulations.
  • Promote sausage packaging of our sealants instead of standard caulking tubes to reduce waste.
  • Offer discounts to our customers by bulk ordering, also saving them costly shipping fees.
 
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AMERICAN CHEMICAL, INC.  •  2201 NORTH 2ND STREET  •  MINNEAPOLIS, MN 55411
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