PCMC earns environmental award

By cutting its electric power usage through a major retrofit in four Green Bay area facilities, Paper Converting Machine Company has earned the Environmental Stewardship Award from Orion Energy Systems.

The change to high-intensity fluorescent lighting from Orion reduced PCMC’s electric power consumption by about 1,167,360 kilowatt-hours (kWh) per year. According to accepted formulas, a reduction this size means that each year about 22,763 tons of carbon dioxide, 310 tons of carbon, five tons of sulfur dioxide and 2.4 tons of nitrogen oxides—all of them greenhouse gas pollutants—will not enter the local atmosphere.