Florim USA will invest roughly $35 million and create more than 30 new jobs at its facility in Clarksville to expand and increase all operations. The expansion will include construction of a new administration building and showroom, and the addition of technologically advanced manufacturing machinery to increase not only production capabilities, but also the range of product offerings, which will allow for a 100 percent U.S.- manufactured product. Florim USA will also invest in additional tile crusher machinery to recycle fired scrap metal back into production.

Florim USA’s Clarksville facility consists of the following highly automated operations: body preparation, glaze preparation, pressing, glazing, kiln, rectification, polishing, selection and packaging. The process is considered “closed-loop” with 100 percent of the water and 95 percent of all production waste generated throughout the operations recycled back through the system.

The American subsidiary of Florim Group, based in Italy, Florim USA is one of the largest and most technologically advanced porcelain tile facilities in North America. Florim USA is one of over 40 Italian-owned establishments in Tennessee that employ more than 4,800 Tennesseans.

Source: TNECD

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If you are interested in implementing ISO 14001 at your facility, please contact your local Solutions Consultant today or email Lynn Reed at [email protected].

Manufacture 2030 (M2030) have a unique software platform that is helping reduce environmental impacts, particularly across the North American automotive supply chain. They are delighted to be presenting a webinar with the Office of Sustainable Practices later this year, to share a more detailed update about the platform and the work they are leading. M2030 hope you will be able to attend, but in the meantime, here’s some additional information on their approach.

With extreme weather events across the planet becoming more frequent, the impacts of climate change are becoming increasingly visible. Companies play an important role in addressing this global issue and face mounting pressure not only to set environmental targets, but to meet them. M2030 gives them certainty that they will achieve this.

Manufacture 2030 began with a simple mission: to accelerate carbon reduction at scale across global manufacturing supply chains. Their unique software platform and support service makes it easy for businesses to measure, manage and reduce carbon emissions in line with the latest climate science.

Thousands of supplier sites from over 50 countries now use the M2030 platform, benefiting from access to hundreds of best practice projects and expert advice through exclusive webinars and Q&As with partners such as the US EPA.

Patrick Clifton, Kaizen Coordinator, at Hayashi Telempu North America spoke about his experiences of working with Manufacture 2030:

“I would first like to say that working with Manufacture 2030 has been an honor. The M2030 team have been an excellent… great people to work with, and I hope I get the opportunity to continue to find more projects, to be able to work with such an amazing organization. Thank you to each of you for all your support and commitment.”

If you would like more information, visit M2030’s website or send your questions to [email protected].

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By Ben Bolton, Senior Energy Programs Administrator

With the trilogy of pandemic years that started in 2020, industries have faced challenges while the world dumped new buzzwords on us: unprecedented, new normal, uncharted, murder hornets. Now in 2022, many industries are now rebounding and the economic engine is again racing down the tracks. During the throes of the pandemic, the more resilient industries searched up and downstream for risks and opportunities in their supply chains as we watched interruptions in production of basic household commodities and industrial components. Knowing the interdependencies of your site will help prepare you for tomorrow’s emergency. Larger manufacturers will often do environmental audits of their suppliers, but now we need to audit supply chains. A single point of failure with a single supplier can quickly shut down an entire production line.

Do your research. How close is your facility to a flood plain? FEMA recently revised many of the flood plain maps in the Nashville area. You can check FEMA’s website directly at https://www.fema.gov/flood-maps, but inside Davidson County, visit this new updated map https://nashville.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=a522dd5908fd4649addfad08f8a4adc6. Would your site benefit from its own weather station to measure local conditions? Have you identified safe rooms for all employees in the event of a sudden tornado?

Additional reading: “Building Resilience in Manufacturing and Supply Chains: Rebounding from COVID-19 Stronger and Better Together”