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Facility ID: 05301FLFLXPUTNE

Facility Name and Address:
 GARWARE FULFLEX USA INC.
32 JUSTIN HOLDEN DR
BRATTLEBORO, VT 05301

Parent Company:

Industry: Synthetic Rubber Manufacturing (325212)
Chemical: Zinc compounds

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Pollution Prevention Activities for Selected Chemical

Reporting Year Section 8.10: Newly Implemented Source Reduction Activity Section 8.10: Methods to Identify Activity Section 8.11: Optional Pollution Prevention Information*
2024 Barriers: B3-Barriers to P2 B3 - Concern that product quality may decline as a result of source reduction.

Barriers to P2: B3 - Concern that product quality may decline as a result of source reduction. - zinc compounds are essential to some recipes to obtain desired result. Amount of Zinc used yearly depends on customers orders which can vary.
2023 Barriers: B3-Barriers to P2 B3 - Concern that product quality may decline as a result of source reduction.

Barriers to P2: B3 - Concern that product quality may decline as a result of source reduction. - Some of our customers require us to use zinc compounds for their products. Our Zinc levels are highly dependent on our customers requirements and how open they are to compound changes.
2022 Source Reduction:: S24: Modified or updated equipment or layout[-0-4%]
Methods to Identify SR Opportunities: T11: Other
S24: Have new machine on order, ($600,000) to replace existing mixing chamber, to be delivered 5-`-23

Source Reduction - Capital investment
2021 Source Reduction:: S33: Improved containment or material handling operations[-0-4%]
Methods to Identify SR Opportunities: T04: Participative team management
S33: Improved house keeping and reduced spillage

Source Reduction - Employee involvement
2020 Source Reduction:: W19: Other changes in operating practices
Methods to Identify SR Opportunities: T05: Employee recommendation (independent of a formal company program)
W19: Repair weigh hopper
2019 Barriers: B7-No Information B7 - No known substitutes or alternative technologies.
Other Environmental Practices - every effort is made to sell our scrap material for reuse. However, fluctuating market pricing impacts that ability. only 2.2% of scrap produced was able to be sold.
2018 Barriers: B7-No Information B7 - No known substitutes or alternative technologies.

Other Environmental Practices: Recycling - every attempt is made to sell our scrap material for recycling. However, this is impacted by market pricing. For 2018, only 2.5% of scrap produced was able to be sold
2017
Source Reduction: Source Reduction - no substitute as a process ingredient

Other Environmental Practices: Recycling - market pricing impacts the ability to resell material for recycling. 19% of our 2017 scrap produced was sold to be re-purposed into recycled product.
2016 Barriers: B7-Barriers to P2 B7 - No known substitutes or alternative technologies.

Barriers to P2: B7 - No known substitutes or alternative technologies. - zinc compounds are a basic ingredient in processing rubber. no available substitute

Other Environmental Practices: Recycling - low market pricing continued to adversely impact the ability to resell material for recycling vs. disposal
2015 Barriers: B7-Barriers to P2 B7 - No known substitutes or alternative technologies.
Other Barriers to Source Reduction - low market pricing restricted opportunities for resale of process scrap


Barriers to P2: B7 - No known substitutes or alternative technologies. - no substitute for zinc compounds in rubber processing

Source Reduction: Source Reduction - although total process scrap was reduced in 2015, market pricing adversely impacted the resale of waste scrap vs. disposal
2014 Source Reduction:: W19: Other changes in operating practices[-5-14%]

Source Reduction:: W29: Other changes in inventory control

Methods to Identify SR Opportunities: T04: Participative team management
Methods to Identify SR Opportunities: T11: Other
Methods to Identify SR Opportunities: T10: Vendor assistance
Methods to Identify SR Opportunities: T11: Other

Source Reduction: Source Reduction - heightened QC to reduce waste

Other Environmental Practices: Recycling - selling scrap to be re purposed, reducing disposal
2013 Source Reduction:: W19: Other changes in operating practices

Methods to Identify SR Opportunities: T04: Participative team management
Methods to Identify SR Opportunities: T11: Other
Source Reduction - Company objective to reduce % scrap; Reduction in process waste to Landfill, by partnering w/ customer(s) to repurpose into new products
2012 Source Reduction:: W19: Other changes in operating practices

Methods to Identify SR Opportunities: T04: Participative team management
Methods to Identify SR Opportunities: T11: Other
Source Reduction - Via management and team participation improved process controls. Also worked with outside partners to reuse what had been scrap materials into supply materials for new products.
2004 Source Reduction:: W58: Other process modifications

Methods to Identify SR Opportunities: T11: Other
Methods to Identify SR Opportunities: T03: Materials balance audits
*Classifications of Optional Pollution Prevention Information shown in brackets are provided by EPA.