In recent years, U.S. companies consciously stand in line of the “green chemical” and actively participate in energy conservation, resource conservation and green national economic system with the construction of practical action. The following four is a microcosm of the U.S. rubber industry practice “green chemical”.

Pike, Ohio, is a rubber products company. In 2007, part of the company’s employees participate in local community organizations to “collect scrap the old Lee – aid others” activities by spontaneous collection of old newspapers and cans, donated to local churches and fire departments, and realized funds for assistance to community vulnerable groups. Workers’ enthusiasm for a high degree of recognition and support of management develop corresponding implementation details. Workers inspired from this event by the recommendations in the factory’s internal collection of waste of the old Lee “to the company’s management. Since then, all the staff acted. Now they average monthly recycling waste rubber 57,000 lbs, 7000 lbs of corrugated cardboard, these things had previously been neglected or wasted.

Gates Company a few years ago the company specially set up an advanced “green chemical” group responsible for the development of environmental protection measures. The company is a production factory in the U.S. state of Virginia, in the project at the beginning of a new plant, the company “green chemical” group on the design of energy-saving program: heating system with natural gas rather than oil, so that savings from 30% to 40% ; production and office space to install energy-efficient lighting with motion sensors; only install air conditioning to office and other workplaces with other less expensive way to cool; landscape planting drought-resistant vegetation using a specially designed; water treatment and water recycling systems to reduce water consumption, save sewage charges. Gates driven a lot of rubber and plastic products companies in North America have to act to minimize energy consumption, a new trend for the industry.

Sid Richardson Carbon Company is a carbon black manufacturing enterprises. The company has always been placed in the position of priority environmental issues. In terms of sustainable development and energy conservation, the company has been in Texas on the use of exhaust gas energy saving projects, to collect the heat from the exhaust of cogeneration units, and converted into electrical energy. Of the project coal saving of about 90,000 tons per year, the project also use air-cooled condenser instead of the traditional water-cooled units, the annual savings of about 125 million gallons of water. The company also plans this year as the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s partners involved in climate protection cooperation program to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

The company will adhere to the green idea and bring benefits to customers, product innovation and technology promotion, sought to balance environmental protection and efficient advanced. The company successfully developed dry ice blasting mold cleaning technology online, mold can be cleaned in the normal production process, you can save a lot of time, but rarely because of the amount of solvent mold cleaning process, so is the environment very friendly.