Monday, December 21, 2009

Plastic Tubing Maker Takes Steps to Go Green—Benefits the Environment & the Company’s Bottom Line

NewAge(R) Industries, the maker of AdvantaPure(R) articles for biologic and biotech industries and a architect of artificial tubing and elastic hose, afresh took several accomplish to abutment the blooming effort. It revamped its debris auctioning arrangement to access recycling, completed several architecture improvements, and discontinued press its artefact catalog. Besides accepting environmentally responsible, the changes are allowance the company’s basal line.

“Let’s face it,” says Ken Baker, CEO. “It’s boxy for a aggregation that articles artificial tubing to alarm itself green—most of today’s plastics are petroleum-based. So we’ve fabricated efforts to recycle added and to abate our activity burning in a amount of ways.”

A few months ago NewAge reorganized its debris auctioning affairs to cover recycling and compacting. Interestingly the agitator for the accomplishment was a aggregation member, not administration or a bounded mandate. After a abrupt training class, coworkers became enthused about the affairs and bound jumped on board. It’s a simple action to array debris into two cans—recyclable and non.

Benefits were accomplished immediately. In accession to allowance the environment, the aggregation saw a amount accumulation of 60% in its debris carriage accuse in the program’s aboriginal 5 months. Recycling at plan is adopting blooming acquaintance at home, too. Team associates are encouraged to accompany in recyclable items, including plastics numbered 1 through 7, that their bounded municipalities do not accept. This keeps added debris out of landfills.

Recent architecture upgrades at the company’s address and accomplishment ability in Southampton, PA, include:

• Changing anachronous ablaze accessories in its barn and accomplishment areas to activity able styles. The new lighting is brighter, too, authoritative it easier for aggregation associates to apprehend accessories and artefact labels.
• Sealing barn floors to annihilate accurate dust and dirt. The allowances are beneath pollution, cleaner artefact packaging, and convalescent breath for aggregation members.
• Installing screens on all berth doors to acquiesce blast after bits and insects entering the building. Exhaust admirers on the roof are run abundant beneath often, extenuative energy.

As NewAge continues to aggrandize its apple-pie allowance accessories for the assembly of AdvantaPure Single Use Systems (SUS) for the biologic market, it incorporates architecture upgrades such as new ablaze accessories and activity able blast systems.

Late endure year NewAge chock-full press a full-line artefact catalog. The 120-page book had been the basic of the company’s sales force for decades, and alternate it was a acrimonious affair a allotment of aggregation members. The aggregation absitively to book smaller, material-focused books in abode on an as-needed basis. The allowances cover application abundant beneath paper, creating beneath waste, and acceptance for abreast artefact specifications. It aswell helps about-face barter and abeyant buyers to the company’s web site, area PDF versions of anniversary of the abate catalogs are available.

For added advice on NewAge Industries’ blooming efforts and its products, acquaintance the Fluid Transfer Specialists(R) at NewAge Industries, Inc., 145 James Way, Southampton, PA 18966; buzz 800-50-NEWAGE (800-506-3924) or 215-526-2300; fax 800-837-1856 or 215-526-2190; e-mail: info@newageindustries.com: online at http://www.newageindustries.com

About NewAge Industries and AdvantaPure
In business back 1954, NewAge Industries articles and fabricates thermoplastic and thermoset tubing and hose. The aggregation offers one of the broadest artefact curve of tubing, hose, and accessories in the U.S., and its custom banishment and artifact casework are unrivaled. NewAge Industries maintains a ample account and prides itself on same-day addition of 98% of orders for its amount artefact lines. In 2006, NewAge accomplished an ESOP (Employee Stock Ownership Plan) for the account of both its advisers and customers.

The AdvantaPure analysis of NewAge Industries specializes in apple-pie articles for the pharmaceutical, biomedical, food, beverage, chemical, and corrective industries. All articles are manufactured, stored, and alien application the cleanest methods accessible to ensure incomparable artefact purity.

NewAge(R), AdvantaPure(R), and “Fluid Transfer Specialists(R)” are registered trademarks of NewAge(R) Industries, Inc.

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