sustainability
The ‘Rubber Triangle’ project
ExxonMobil’s Specialty Elastomers Business (SEB) implemented an innovative change to its supply chain for the Vistalon™ EPDM and Santoprene™ TPV product lines. The project reduced the number of empty trucks and containers traveling between facilities in Pensacola, Florida; Loxley, Alabama; and New Orleans, Louisiana.
SEB realized significant fuel and cost savings by eliminating the empty truck routes.In addition, total annual mileage was cut from nearly 850,000 to about 460,000 miles, saving almost 76,000 gallons of fuel and thereby eliminating nearly 800 tons of greenhouse gas emissions.
The project, named “Rubber Triangle,” won an American Chemistry Council 2007 Responsible Care® Energy Efficiency Award.
