CHAPTER 2
Get Lean
You wouldn’t think DuPont could find any more ways to save energy. After all, this is the company that cut greenhouse gas emissions an astonishing 72 percent over the last two decades and set an aggressive goal to hold energy use flat. Today, DuPont uses 6 percent less energy than it did in 1990, despite growing 40 percent. How much blood could the company squeeze from the same stone? Quite a bit, apparently.
In 2008, DuPont launched a new “Bold Energy Plan” to increase sales and lower energy use, or as management put it, “grow while shrinking.” In one year, energy teams around the company found 245 new projects that cost $50 million to implement. But the initiatives also save $50 million every year, a short twelve-month ...
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