McCormick Realizes Net Zero Energy in Belcamp, Maryland

摘要

McCormick & Company was started in Baltimore in 1889, in one room and a cellar by 25-year-old Wil-loughby McCormick. The brands first products were root beer, flavoring extracts, and fruit syrups and juices, but they also included a line of Iron Glue("Sticks Everything But the Buyer") and Uncle Sam's Nerve and Bone Liniment ("For Man Or Beast"). Today the company is ubiquitous in the seasonings market and is the world's leading source of spices and flavorings for both the consumer and food industry.For many years, McCormick has enjoyed a culture that celebrates the fundamental aspects of sustainability and has a corporate dogma geared around its workforce: "the power of people" Their focus on sustainability has turned most recently to the renewable energy arena. McCormick and their utility partner, Constellation Energy, completed a major project that reversed the significant energy consumption of a 363,000-sq.-ft. distribution center in Belcamp, Maryland, down to net zero energy status. In fact,they are now, at times, an energy producer. Jeff Blankman, McCormick's sustainable manufacturing manager, spoke with Bill Ferguson, contributing editor to Sustainability: The Journal of Record (SJoR), regarding McCormick's sustainability efforts and thesuccessful Belcamp project.