Ecova services will help Berry Plastics reach their annual goal of
one percent utility reduction per pound processed
Ecova,
the total energy and sustainability management company, has been
selected by Berry
Plastics Group, Inc. (NYSE: BERY) to provide services which will
assist the company in reducing its waste generation and its consumption
of electricity, natural gas, and water.
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Berry Plastics, a leading provider of value-added consumer plastic
packaging and engineered materials, will leverage the Ecova
Energy and Sustainability Management Platform to gain additional
insight into waste generation and utility consumption at the company’s
more than 70 U.S. and Canadian facilities. The added visibility and
analysis, coupled with Ecova’s recommendations for improvement
initiatives, will assist Berry Plastics in reducing their waste
generation and optimizing their utility efficiencies, while minimizing
associated costs.
Berry Plastics’ facility footprint has grown, so has the company’s use
of automation. As a result, the company’s energy usage has grown also.
Mitigating increases in consumption and related costs is what Ecova does
best. Leveraging Ecova services such as Bill
Audit, Rate
Optimization and Energy
Procurement will ensure that utility invoices don’t include errors,
that utility rates are set appropriately for Berry Plastics’ consumption
patterns, and that opportunities in deregulated markets are maximized.
“As a plastics company, we take seriously our role as a sustainable and
responsible company. We believe that we can operate and grow a
successful business while also pursuing and implementing initiatives
that will help foster sustainability. In support of this, we practice
sustainability every day through the execution of utility and waste
reduction initiatives,” said Rodgers Greenawalt, executive vice
president of operations for Berry Plastics. “We look forward to working
with Ecova to enhance our current initiatives and explore new
opportunities to further reduce utility usage and cost.”
Clearly understanding usage patterns at their numerous locations is
imperative to identify opportunities to reduce energy consumption. The
use of Ecova’s Resource
Benchmarking Report will provide Berry Plastics with at-a-glance
analytics to illustrate high and low resource performers as well as
year-over-year trends across the company’s sites. Ecova will also
provide the company with tracking and management for critical resource
data, along with a robust suite of services and expert energy
consultants to assist in developing an overarching strategy and tactical
plan for meeting Berry Plastics’ goals.
“Understanding resource consumption and how to leverage data to save
money and improve performance is an essential business need for today’s
companies,” said Jana
Schmidt, president and CEO of Ecova. “Working with companies, such
as Berry Plastics, to develop a plan focused on energy efficiency and
cost savings is core to Ecova’s business of total energy and
sustainability management.”
The Ecova Platform combines data, technology and energy expertise to
deliver insight needed to reduce organizational cost and consumption.
For more information on the Ecova Platform, including features and
benefits, please visit www.ecova.com/platform.
ABOUT ECOVA
Ecova is the total energy and sustainability management company
whose sole purpose is to see
more, save
more, and sustain
more for its clients. Using insights based on consumption, cost and
carbon footprint data spanning thousands of utilities, hundreds of
thousands of business sites and millions of households, Ecova provides
fully managed, technology-optimized solutions for saving resources,
which in turn increase returns, lower risks, and enhance reputations.
Ecova is a subsidiary of Cofely, ENGIE Group. For more information,
visit the company’s website at ecova.com,
on LinkedIn at linkedin.com/company/ecova,
or follow Ecova on Twitter at @ecovainc.
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