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Nissan Plants Earn EPA's Energy Star Award


September 2006
 Filed under: NISSAN Car News | NISSAN Headlines
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (September 19, 2006) – Nissan North America’s (NNA) automotive manufacturing plants in Smyrna, Tenn., and Canton, Miss., have earned the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Energy Star award. The first-time award, which was recently presented in Washington, D.C., recognizes energy-efficient operations that have cut pollution, lowered energy consumption and reduced costs.
Nissan is one of only three automakers to receive the award and is recognized among 17 U.S. manufacturing plants that prevented some 3 billion pounds of greenhouse gas emissions. The award is based on achieving an energy performance score in the top 25 percent nationally, based on the EPA\'s plant energy performance indicators measured on actual energy use. EPA is working with 10 industries to advance innovative corporate energy management tools.

Nissan has made conserving energy and reducing greenhouse gas emissions a priority at all three of our U.S. plants, said Dan Gaudette, senior vice president of North American Manufacturing and Supply Chain Management at Nissan North America. The Energy Star award really belongs to every Nissan employee for their efforts to help minimize our facilities’ impact on the environment. We’re pleased to be among the first automakers to receive this award.

EPA\'s national energy performance rating system, developed in cooperation with several industries, enables companies to evaluate the energy efficiency of their plants relative to their industries and to develop additional energy improvement goals and plans.

\"By committing to smart energy use, America\'s historic economic backbone is now supporting our nation\'s brightening environmental future,\" said U.S. EPA Administrator Stephen L. Johnson. \"Working with our manufacturing partners, we are implementing President Bush\'s aggressive and practical strategy to reduce greenhouse gas emissions while growing the American economy.\"

Nissan focuses on three primary environmental objectives in its operations around the world. They include managing carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, recycling, and protecting air, water and soil. All three of Nissan’s U.S. manufacturing plants have received certification to the ISO 14001 international environmental management standard.

Nissan’s powertrain assembly plant in Decherd, Tenn., was not rated according to the EPA’s energy performance rating system because the federal agency’s comparison tool does not yet apply to powertrain plants.

Ongoing energy conservation practices at all three Nissan plants include eliminating compressed air leaks, shortening startup times on process equipment, reducing operating temperatures in equipment where possible, and establishing plant-wide task forces to generate energy-savings ideas. Employees are encouraged to turn off air compressors, equipment, lights and TV monitors when not in use.

Nissan aims to reduce volatile organic compounds (VOCs) emitted during the automobile painting process. Waterborne paints are used at one of the two paint plants in Smyrna and in both the primer and base-coat applications in the paint plant in Canton. In the paint process, color blocking -- painting a series of units in the same color -- conserves paints and solvents, reduces waste and releases fewer VOCs.

CO2, nitrous oxides, sulfur oxides (SOx), and carbon monoxide emissions are further reduced at the Smyrna Plant through the use of natural gas in lieu of coal during critical time periods. Low-sulfur coal is burned to further reduce SOx emissions.

In North America, NNA’s operations include automotive styling, engineering, consumer and corporate financing, sales and marketing, distribution and manufacturing. Nissan’s manufacturing facilities have the annual capacity to produce 950,000 vehicles at the Smyrna, Tenn., and Canton, Miss., automotive assembly plants and 1 million engines at the Decherd, Tenn. powertrain assembly plant.


Source: Nissan

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