PCMC earns environmental award

The reduction is the air-scrubbing equivalent of removing 189 cars from the road permanently or planting a 214-acre forest. It is also the conservation equivalent of saving 96,367 gallons of gasoline. The change is expected to save PCMC $85,774 at present electric rates.

Tom Nelson, PCMC facilities service manager, told how the project happened. “We were visiting one of our new owner’s (Marquip Ward United) facilities and they had the Orion lights. They hooked us up with Pete Wood from Orion and also with LightSource Distributing of Custer, who handled the installation. Even before this, though, we knew we had to do something with the lighting in all our plants because it was terrible lighting. So we had them bring in some lights and we hung them up, had a trial, and we visited another location that had them in there. In the end, Orion and LightSource did all four plants.”