2010 Sustainability Report - Cummins.com

Remanufacturing Cummins products
Remanufacturing Cummins components and engines
provides our customers with high performing ReCon
products at a value price. The business of providing
genuine, factory remanufactured products has long
been a mainstay of Cummins sustainable operations.
Remanufacturing provides benefits for the environment
by using about 85 percent less energy compared to
the mining, refining, melting and machining of new
material. Cummins reuses or recycles more than
50 million pounds of material each year. The energy
savings from this reclamation is equivalent to the
consumption of about 10,000 homes in the U.S.
Since most of that energy is fossil-fuel based, the
savings also add up to greenhouse gas reductions
of about 200 million pounds.
ReCon Parts and Engines is a global initiative.
Two India locations are now in operation producing
for the domestic market and export. Chinese
remanufacturing operations are expected to start
in July 2010, while fuel system remanufacturing
operations have now begun in a new facility in
Juarez, Mexico.
Filtration
More than 50 years ago, Cummins developed its first
filtration product. Since then, the business unit has
developed thousands of innovative technologies and
industry-leading manufacturing processes that support
a cleaner, healthier and safer environment.
For example, a current program underway at
Cummins Filtration will reduce the amount of steel
needed to make nut plate components used in liquid
filtration by 11 percent. By reducing the amount
of steel used to make filters, while still meeting or
exceeding performance expectations, less material
will be needed from steel service centers and mills.
This design change equates to a reduction in steel
purchased by Cummins Filtration of 1 million pounds
or 454 metric tons. From a transportation standpoint,
the reduction means 25 fewer truckloads of steel
transported for Cummins Filtration per year, though
the same volume and quantity of filters are still
produced. Studies suggest that for every ton of
steel produced by a mill, approximately 1.8 tons
of CO 2
are emitted into the atmosphere.
The business unit designs high performance
products that remove contamination from engine
systems, reduce engine emissions and minimize
disposal issues. As the only filter manufacturer that is
part of a company that produces engines, Cummins
Filtration has developed new technologies in concert
with 2010 engine platforms to reduce environmental
impact, as in the following examples:
Crankcase Ventilation systems that filter up
to 99 percent of oil drip, up to 95 percent of
aerosol vapors and 100 percent of engine
compartment fumes.
Direct Flow Air Filtration design utilizes a straight
air flow path allowing filter media to be packaged in
a smaller profile for longer service intervals, easier
service and environmentally-friendly disposal with
no metal components.
Filter-in-Filter combines two filters in a single reusable
cartridge that reduces the amount of waste material
during regular fuel system maintenance.
From the state-of-the-art Media Center, Cummins
Filtration engineers design advanced filter media to
meet the goal of reducing our carbon footprint, such
as the award-winning, multi-layered StrataPore
synthetic media with superior sludge removal
capability and StrataPore Coalescing media
specifically tailored for optimal oil droplet removal
from blow-by gases in Crankcase Ventilation systems.
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