EPA ENERGY STAR partner Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc. (TEMA) was awarded a top honor when it received the 2007 ENERGY STAR Award for Sustained Excellence – Energy Management. TEMA's energy management program is a sought-after textbook for many U.S. companies wishing to benchmark themselves against the auto maker. Toyota had a strong year in 2006, with sustained energy savings of 8 percent per vehicle produced. Since 2002, Toyota has reduced energy consumption per vehicle produced by more than 24 percent. This achievement is based on its consistent deployment of actions from its "kaizen" database of more than 11,000 potential energy projects; expansion of energy audits, or "treasure hunts," to all plants once per quarter - up from once per year; and extensive use of the ENERGY STAR auto assembly plant energy performance indicator. Six assembly plants operated by Toyota in the United States have scored in the top quartile of energy use nationally, earning the ENERGY STAR.
For more information on the ENERGY STAR awards, see
http://www.energystar.gov/index.cfm?c=industry.bus_industry_awards.
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