EPA ENERGY STAR Partner Ford Motor Company received the 2007 ENERGY STAR Partner of the Year Award for Energy Management. In 2006 Ford expanded its energy management program to include 13 auto component plants and strengthened its energy management commitment for 15 million square feet of corporate and research facilities. Key strategies for moving energy management ahead included using ENERGY STAR plant and building benchmarking to assess facilities' energy performance, working with suppliers to address the embedded energy burden upstream of the company, and establishing a critical link between energy management and actual process management by working directly with vehicle painting process engineers to reduce energy use in this energy-intensive stage of auto assembly. In 2006 four of Ford's U.S. assembly plants were among the first to be awarded the ENERGY STAR for superior energy performance.
For more information on the ENERGY STAR awards, see
http://www.energystar.gov/index.cfm?c=industry.bus_industry_awards.
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