Dow Chemical Wins Top ESS Excellence Award for Campaign that Saves $2 Million

April 23rd, 2008

This year’s ESS EXPO was a great event. We had the largest EXPO attendance ever. And our judges had a difficult time choosing among the sustainability initiatives nominated for ESS Excellence Awards.

After a great deal of thought, a panel of judges, including executives from BNP Media’s Pollution Engineering (PE) and Industrial Safety & Hygiene News (ISHN) magazines, EXPO’s official media sponsors, named The Dow Chemical Company winner of the “Best of the Best” 2008 ESS Excellence Award for its outstanding achievements in leveraging information management technology to achieve its enterprise sustainability and operational excellence goals. Dow earned the top honor by showing how they saved $2 million following implementation of an integrated EH&S platform covering about 200 production sites across North America. The system generated productivity enhancements, streamlined Dow’s environmental reporting and enabled company officials to replace hundreds of redundant legacy systems.

Dow was one of 31 public and private organizations that received ESS Excellence Awards this year. Honorees represent a wide range of organizations across industry sectors, including global leaders, mid-market companies, public utilities, military agencies, educational institutions and federal, state and local government agencies.

The remaining 2008 ESS Excellence Award winners included Alcoa, Inc.; Andrews Air Force Base; Beale Air Force Base; Brookhaven National Laboratory; Campbell Soup Company, Napoleon, Ohio; Cardinal Glass Industries; City of Columbus, Ga.; Delta Air Lines, Inc.; Duke Energy; Gilbert Fire Department; HD Supply, Inc.; Illinois Auto Electrics Company; JR Simplot; Kocsis Consulting Group, Inc.; Koppers; Kroy Lyondell Chemical; Maryland State Highway Administration; Metro Nashville Government; New Jersey Natural Gas Company; PetroChina Company Limited; Purdue University; Raleigh Parks & Recreation Department; Kentucky Sanitation District No. 1; Seagate Technology; Sea Ray Boats; St. Petersburg Police Department; Sumner County Government; Tempe Fire Department; The Dow Chemical Company; USDA Forest Service; and Vought Aircraft Industries Building Products.

Additionally, nine organizations were recognized as Honorable Mention recipients: Arcelor Mittal Steel; Boeing Commercial Airplane Business Unit; Carrollton-Farmers Branch ISD; Colgate-Palmolive; Good Environment Pty. Ltd.; INVISTA; Momentive Performance Materials, Sistersville, W. Va. Plant; New Brunswick Emergency Measures Organization; and URS Corporation.

Notice that the award winning organizations, as a group, represent a wide cross-section of industry sectors ranging from consumer goods to aircraft manufacturers, chemical companies to federal, state and local government agencies. This indicates the widespread adoption of and support for sustainability initiatives throughout both the private and the public sectors.

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