"Sustainability"

It’s hard to imagine a way 2016 could have been a better year for the diversity procurement program at Cummins. In April, the company was recognized by the National Business Inclusion Consortium in its inaugural 2016 NBIC Best-of-the Best Top 30 Corporations for Inclusion. Then in August, Cummins was inducted into the Billion Dollar Roundtable, a prestigious advocate for best practices in co

Cummins released its water conservation goal in 2014 as part of its 2020 Environmental Sustainability Plan, pledging to reduce water use intensity by 33 percent, adjusted by labor hours. As of the third quarter of 2016, the company's water efficiency efforts had resulted in a 42 percent intensity reduction or 18 percent on an absolute basis. Because the Company achieved the initial goal ahead

The scene should have been picturesque: A stream running through a suburban village near Beijing, China, located not far from two national parks and reservoirs. Except it was anything but idyllic. A growing population meant many private sewage pipelines discharged waste into the stream. For the 25 million people touched by the local watershed, that meant the increased possibility of waterborne

For three years in a row, more than 70 percent of Cummins employees have participated in the company’s Every Employee Every Community (EEEC) program, investing more than 400,000 hours in 2016 alone to build stronger communities around the world. Although the EEEC program provides employees at least four hours of work time annually to devote to community improvement, many invest much more than t

Cummins’ successful Energy Champions initiative, which trained employees to look for ways to save energy in plants, facilities and offices, is evolving into the company’s Environmental Champions program. “We wanted sites to have a holistic view when reviewing facility projects, not just look through the lens of one media like energy,” said Nichole Morris, Environmental Manager and Cummins’ Wate

The partnership, which also includes Peloton Technology, Peterbilt Motors Company, and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), is part of the U.S. Department of Energy’s Next-Generation Energy Technologies for Connected and Autonomous On-Road Vehicles program, also known as NEXTCAR. “We look forward to applying our expertise and working with the other partners,” said Ed Hodzen, Directo

The power of that connection is ever present in the company’s Technical Education for Communities (TEC), an education initiative dedicated to expanding technical employment opportunities for disadvantaged students. The quickest way to grasp the impact of TEC is to listen to the students involved in the program. For many, access to a technical education can be the catalyst they need to get a g

For the twelfth straight year, Cummins Inc. (NYSE: CMI) has been awarded a perfect score in the 2017 Corporate Equality Index (CEI), a national benchmarking survey and report on corporate policies and practices related to LGBT workplace equality, administered by the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) Foundation. The ratings were announced Dec. 5 by HRC, the largest U.S. civil rights organization for l

The partnerships’ list ranks the publicly traded companies in America that “perform best on the things Americans care most about.” The rankings are based on one of the largest surveys ever conducted on attitudes towards corporate behavior, involving 50,000 Americans over the past 18 months. The new list ranks U.S. companies against their peers within 32 major industries. Forbes and JUST Capital

Almost everything you see from the outside of the new Cummins Distribution Business Unit (DBU) Headquarters in downtown Indianapolis, Indiana (U.S.A.) has something to do with saving energy or water. From the uneven landscaping in the plaza next to the headquarters to the types of glass used in the 9-story structure, the building aligns with Cummins’ mission demanding “everything we do leads to