Kenworths Renton Manufacturing Plant Receives Environmental Honor
Published in: NTEA
Date: 5/12/2009
The Kenworth Truck Company (Kirkland, WA) manufacturing plant in Renton, WA was recently honored by the King County Industrial Waste Program.
KenworthRenton received King Countys Commitment-to-Compliance Award for five consecutive years of outstanding compliance with the plants industrial wastewater discharge permit. It marked the plants second consecutive Commitment-to-Compliance award, which represents 10 consecutive years of no wastewater violations of any kind covering discharge, permit, ordinance, reporting, self-monitoring and King County monitoring.
Kenworth is pleased to again receive this prestigious environmental award from King County, said Marilyn Santangelo, Kenworth’s assistant general manager for operations. The award is a testament to the diligent efforts of employees at the KenworthRenton plant to achieve and maintain a high level of environmental accomplishment, and is an important part of the plants comprehensive efforts to reduce, reuse and recycle.
KenworthRenton and the KenworthChillicothe plant in Ohio both hold the prestigious ISO 14001:2004 certification for effective environmental management systems established to help build Class 8 trucks in an environmentally sustainable manner. Kenworths medium-duty products are produced at the PACCAR manufacturing facility in Ste. Therese, QC, Canada, which also holds ISO 14001:2004 status.
For more information on Kenworth, visit www.kenworth.com.