It’s not just what we build that drives innovation, it’s also how we build it. And that’s helping us redefine manufacturing excellence.
INGENUITY FROM INCEPTION
Whether it’s finding new ways to improve sustainability in our manufacturing processes or our active encouragement of healthy, safe and secure facilities, the same ingenuity that powers what we bring to market also powers how we bring it to market.
It’s not just what we build that drives innovation, it’s also how we build it. And that’s helping us redefine manufacturing excellence.
INGENUITY FROM INCEPTION
Whether it’s finding new ways to improve sustainability in our manufacturing processes or our active encouragement of healthy, safe and secure facilities, the same ingenuity that powers what we bring to market also powers how we bring it to market.
INDUSTRY LEADER IN SAFETY
From 1999 to 2010, Navistar employees reduced their on-the-job injury rate by nearly 82 percent, and in Huntsville, Ala., they reached an unprecedented milestone. This engine plant surpassed four years and 3 million consecutive work hours without a lost-time injury.
COMMITTED TO ENERGY EFFICIENCY
Oftentimes, it’s our frontline employees who become the true stewards of our manufacturing ingenuity. Take our facility in Waukesha, Wis., where employees found multiple ways to reduce energy usage during the year. By decreasing the system air pressure in the compressor room and shutting off make-up air units and air filtration units during nonproduction periods, the facility is able to save more than $116,000 in electricity costs.
And that’s just one example.
Our extensive parts remanufacturing program also contributes with significant recycling and reuse of existing materials. Every month, more than 4.6 million pounds of brake shoes, transmissions, clutches, engines and other parts are recovered and shipped to suppliers. Meanwhile, each month the company’s parts distribution network recycles more than 79,000 pounds of cardboard and 337,000 pounds of scrap metal.
By 2015, Navistar’s vision is to entirely eliminate the direct shipment of waste to landfills.
And it’s not just our parts. We also work closely with local communities to conduct brownfield remediations of closed or sold sites. In southeastern Chicago, 85 percent of the Wisconsin Steel Works site formerly owned by Navistar has been completely remediated, and 131 acres of the 176-acre site are being redeveloped into a new environmentally sustainable liquid asphalt plant. Navistar also helped transform the former West Pullman Works in Chicago into one of the largest urban solar plant in the United States, generating enough clean electricity to power up to 1,500 homes.
REMANUFACTURING MATTERS
Our extensive parts remanufacturing program also contributes with significant recycling and reuse of existing materials. Every month, more than 4.6 million pounds of brake shoes, transmissions, clutches, engines and other parts are recovered and shipped to suppliers. Meanwhile, each month the company’s parts distribution network recycles more than 79,000 pounds of cardboard and 337,000 pounds of scrap metal.
Navistar’s vision is to entirely eliminate the direct shipment of waste to landfills by 2015.
BRINGING NEW LIFE TO OLD FACILITIES
It’s not just our parts that get reused. We also work closely with local communities to conduct brownfield remediation of closed or sold sites. In southeastern Chicago, 85 percent of the Wisconsin Steel Works site formerly owned by Navistar has been completely remediated, and 131 acres of the 176-acre site are being redeveloped into a new environmentally sustainable liquid asphalt plant. Navistar also helped transform the former West Pullman Works in Chicago into one of the largest urban solar plant in the United States, generating enough clean electricity to power up to 1,500 homes.
