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Chapter 19:
Practicing What It Preaches
Hunter Industries, which has offered cutting-edge technology in the irrigation
industry over the last quarter century, hosted the 2008 Crystal Ball Committee
meeting in November. The company practices Lean Six Sigma to
eliminate waste and variability throughout the supply chain as it strives to
add value for its customers with every company activity.
In addition to allowing
the Committee use of its
confer ence rooms and its
state-of-the-art auditorium,
Hunter Industries
invited Committee members
to tour its campus
in San Marcos, Cal i fornia.
The campus consists
of eight buildings, totaling
450,000 square feet
under roof, and includes
the company’s main
Hunter Industries’ San Marcos, California, campus
man u facturing plant and
its USGBC LEED-certified sales, marketing, customer service, and distri bution
center, which was of keen interest to the group because of its sustainable
features.
A few of the sustainable features of the Hunter Industries’ campus: solar panels
(above left) that provide 20–25 percent of the energy for the company’s LEED-certified
distribution center, and daylight-harvesting units (in the ceiling of its warehouse
area) that provide 100 percent of the building’s daylight needs.
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