Cummins achieved its water and energy goals in 2015, but still has a considerable way to go to meet its 2020 recycling goals. “The environmental teams around the globe truly had an outstanding year,” said Mark Dhennin, Director of Energy Efficiency and Environment at Cummins. “There was a lot of effort that went into delivering on our commitments, which our environmental professionals met
At Cummins, we strive every day to improve the quality of life for people in the communities where we operate, here in the United States and around the world. As a result of our efforts and those of other leading companies, America’s business community has decreased greenhouse gas emissions, improved energy efficiency, conserved water, reduced waste and protected the environment – achievements
COLUMBUS, Ind., April 2016 - Cummins announced the company was awarded a $4.5 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy to develop a Class 6 commercial plug-in hybrid electric vehicle that can reduce fuel consumption by at least 50 percent over conventional Class 6 vehicles. When fully loaded, Class 6 vehicles weigh between approximately 19,000 and 26,000 pounds and typical examples incl
Jennifer Rumsey says she achieved her dream job when she became Cummins’ Vice President – Chief Technical Officer in 2015. Today, she leads the company’s global technical organization, responsible for research and engineering across Cummins’ four business units. After obtaining a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from Purdue and a Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering from
Cummins has been named a 2016 World’s Most Ethical Company by the Ethisphere Institute, a global leader in defining and advancing the standards of ethical business practices. This is the ninth year in a row the institute has included Cummins on its list. Ethisphere has been recognizing companies who “align principle with action and make trust part of their corporate DNA” for the past 10 years.
The largest solar array at a Cummins facility is scheduled to be completed in April at the Beijing Foton Cummins Engine Company Ltd. (BFCEC) in China, eliminating an estimated 3,200 tons of carbon dioxide (CO2) per year or about 13 percent of BFCEC’s overall greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. The initiative will also help with China’s national drive to reduce air pollution, cutting back what BFCEC
Where others saw a decaying, 2,400-acre ammunition plant, closed for nearly 40 years, Cummins’ Prad Pathirana saw an opportunity to introduce STEM to public school students. And that’s precisely what’s happening now that the former plant, near Cummins Power Generation in the Twin Cities (Minnesota) north metro, was removed in 2015 from the Superfund list of the United States’ worst environmenta
Cummins has joined companies like Boeing, Apple, Google and Microsoft on the CDP’s Climate Disclosure Leadership Index in 2015. The company was identified as a U.S. leader for the quality of climate change related information that it has disclosed to investors and the global marketplace through CDP, the international not-for-profit working to promote sustainable economies. The CDP was formerly
Dec. 3, 2015 was a very good day for Matt Abdallah and his team at the Seymour Engine Plant in Seymour, Indiana. After months of work, and more than a year of planning, the lab operations team used two regenerative dynamometers, or regen dynos for short, to capture enough energy from high horsepower engines being tested to meet all of the plant’s electrical needs was paying off. “We didn’t h
If you ask 10 different people to define the power of Cummins, you’ll likely get 10 different answers. Some might say it’s our products that help power everything from your favorite pickup truck to global data centers and such iconic landmarks as the Statue of Liberty, the London Eye and the Taj Mahal. Others might say it’s our employees, who devoted more than 364,000 hours last year to c
From his laptop computer, Felix Santana, Cummins’ Global Logistics Leader, can easily monitor the nearly 500 trucks that deliver material to company facilities in North America on a typical work day, checking on their contents, location and other information. When he joined Cummins three years ago, that was nearly impossible to do. Each of the company’s four business units ran its own transport
Leaders at the first four Cummins sites certified by the company as “Zero Disposal” facilities say slow but steady progress that builds employee support for reuse and recycling was critical to their success. “Do not try to boil the ocean,” said Jennifer Hirst, a facilities engineer at one of the sites, Cummins Turbo Technologies (CTT) at Huddersfield in the United Kingdom. “Small, individual st