Smithfield Foods' Facilities Receive Sustainability Excellence in Manufacturing Awards

SMITHFIELD, Va.,- Smithfield Foods, Inc. is excited to share that its Crete, Neb.; Kinston, N.C.; and Sioux Falls, S.D. services have been identified with the aid of The Association for Packaging and Processing Technologies (PMMI) for their efforts in riding accelerated overall performance via sustainability and going past environmental compliance.

Smithfield's Crete facility used to be awarded first location in the Program class of ProFood World's annual Sustainability Excellence in Manufacturing Awards, applauded for its efforts in lowering strong waste by means of almost 10 million pounds. Its Kinston facility used to be diagnosed with a second-place award in the Project class for its use of LED lights to power electricity savings. The company's Sioux Falls facility was once identified as a third-place honoree in the Program class for water discount efforts.

"Sustainability is at the core of our enterprise operations. It drives the whole lot we do," stated Stewart Leeth, vice president of regulatory affairs and chief sustainability officer for Smithfield Foods. "Our facilities' waste, water and power saving efforts are a robust instance of the approaches in which our personnel gasoline innovation each and every day and are imperative to supporting us acquire our sustainability goals."

The first-place accolade awarded to the company's Crete facility is the result of a patron product specification request that brought on a sizable quantity of solids from wastewater operations to be despatched to landfill. The Crete crew labored with a recycling company to locate a composting operation that would receive and system the high-volume waste stream. Completed in simply three months, the venture yields extra than 9.6 million kilos of stable waste discount per year. This progressive answer contributes to the company's dedication to minimize usual stable waste despatched to landfills 75% with the aid of 2025.

Smithfield's second-place award diagnosed its Kinston facility for changing high-energy-use HIDs with LED lighting, riding down complete kWh usage. Benefits of LED lighting fixtures encompass decreased universal/hazardous waste disposal cost, decreased labor price and increased lighting fixtures output. By making this switch, the Kinston crew was once in a position to retailer 161,880 kWh annually.

A third-place honor used to be given to Smithfield's Sioux Falls facility for its water discount efforts, which resulted in lowering the want for town water in the facility via roughly 5.15 million gallons per year.