TY - GEN
T1 - 2015 Illinois Governor's Sustainability Award Winner: Hoffer Plastics, Inc.
AU - Illinois Sustainable Technology Center
PY - 2016/11
Y1 - 2016/11
N2 - Hoffer Plastics, located in South Elgin, Illinois, specializes in making custom plastic injection molded items. Their products are used in retail packaging and in the automotive, medical, and appliance industries. Hoffer Plastics used a number of strategies to increase efficiency and reduce their environmental impact. They initiated a 100% facility-wide recycling program that diverted 58,000 pounds of materials from the landfill. Their energy conservation measures reduced their electricity consumption by nearly 4 million kWh. Conservation strategies included: installing high efficiency lighting; replaced chilled water pump motors with variable-frequency drive motors; installed thermal blankets on machine barrels; and implementing a compressed air efficiency initiative. Installing a cooling water filtration system that captures back-flushed water to reuse in the cooling towers has reduced the company's water use by 1.3 million gallons.
AB - Hoffer Plastics, located in South Elgin, Illinois, specializes in making custom plastic injection molded items. Their products are used in retail packaging and in the automotive, medical, and appliance industries. Hoffer Plastics used a number of strategies to increase efficiency and reduce their environmental impact. They initiated a 100% facility-wide recycling program that diverted 58,000 pounds of materials from the landfill. Their energy conservation measures reduced their electricity consumption by nearly 4 million kWh. Conservation strategies included: installing high efficiency lighting; replaced chilled water pump motors with variable-frequency drive motors; installed thermal blankets on machine barrels; and implementing a compressed air efficiency initiative. Installing a cooling water filtration system that captures back-flushed water to reuse in the cooling towers has reduced the company's water use by 1.3 million gallons.
KW - Pollution prevention -- Illinois -- Case studies
KW - Illinois Governor's Sustainability Awards
KW - Plastics -- Manufacturing -- Environmental aspects -- Case studies
KW - Environmental protection -- Awards -- Illinois -- Case studies
UR - http://hdl.handle.net/2142/94734
M3 - Other contribution
T3 - TN Series (Illinois Sustainable Technology Center) ; TN16-126
PB - Illinois Sustainable Technology Center
CY - Champaign, IL
ER -