KPPC Awards Kentucky Company for Sustainability

Owensboro Grain Company LLC has been selected as the Kentucky Pollution Prevention Center’s (KPPC) abstract watercolor landscapeDouglas C. Griffin Environmental Sustainability Award winner for 2015. KPPC created the award in 2009 to recognize those Kentucky companies that have demonstrated a commitment to the principles of sustainability by reducing waste, lowering energy use and practicing environmental stewardship. The award is presented each year in conjunction with National Pollution Prevention Week. The award is now named for KPPC’s founding board member and Board of Directors Chair from 1999 to 2015, Douglas C. Griffin, who passed away this August.

This year’s winner, Owensboro Grain Company, was founded in 1906 and is now in its fifth generation of ownership. Owensboro Grain produces a wide variety of products at its plant locations on the Ohio River in western Kentucky. The company also operates a biodiesel production facility, which has added millions of gallons of fuel per year to the nation’s energy supply. Owensboro Grain has been actively engaged in sustainability efforts for a number of years and has been working with the Kentucky Pollution Prevention Center (KPPC) since 2011.

KPPC is a state mandated technical service center and is part of the J.B. Speed School of Engineering at the University of Louisville. The center provides technical service assessments at no cost to Kentucky businesses and industries and feels that is important to recognize those companies that have made sustainability a part of their operations. There have been 11 Kentucky companies that have won the Environmental Sustainability Award since KPPC created the award program in 2009.

John Wright, Executive Vice President of Owensboro Grain, accepted the award in Owensboro on September 29. Wright acknowledged the efforts of the staff and management team in the company’s successful sustainability efforts, “I want to accept this award on behalf of our staff – especially those who helped push our sustainability efforts through – they’re the ones on the front lines who have made energy management, waste reduction and sustainability a priority for our company and for our community.”

More information about the annual Sustainability Award is available at www.kppc.org.

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