Business Services Industry
Latham, N.Y., Fuel-Cell Maker Cuts Waste, Uses Recyclable Products.
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, January, 2004
By Kenneth Aaron, Times Union, Albany, N.Y. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Jan. 14--When Roger Saillant became chief executive of Plug Power Inc. he had the idea that every last bit of the Latham fuel-cell maker's product should be reusable or recyclable once retired by a customer. None of it, he said, should wind up in a landfill.
Paul Burton, Plug's vice president of manufacturing, remembers how the edict went down.
"It was the typical, 'What are you, crazy?'" Burton said Monday at the company's Albany Shaker Road headquarters. "I don't think it was totally, immediately embraced."
Now, though, the results of Saillant's mission are visible: One morning this week, workers took the guts of a Plug fuel cell and laid them...
Most Recent Business Articles
- Multiple criteria evaluation and optimization of transportation systems
- Multi-criteria analysis procedure for sustainable mobility evaluation in urban areas
- A two-leveled multi-objective symbiotic evolutionary algorithm for the hub and spoke location problem
- Multi-criteria analysis for evaluating the impacts of intelligent speed adaptation
- The development of Taiwan arterial traffic-adaptive signal control system and its field test: a Taiwan experience
Most Recent Business Publications
Most Popular Business Articles
- 7 tips for effective listening: productive listening does not occur naturally. It requires hard work and practice - Back To Basics - effective listening is a crucial skill for internal auditors
- FAS 109: a primer for non-accountants - Financial Accounting Standards Board's "Statement 109: Accounting for Income Taxes"
- LIFO vs. FIFO: a return to the basics
- Too Young to Rent a Car? - 25-years-old the minimum age for car renting - Brief Article
- Design a commission plan that drives sales - Sales Commissions
