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Featured Partner: Georgia-Pacific
Consumer Products Group
Georgia-Pacific
ABOUT GEORGIA-PACIFIC
CONSUMER PRODUCTS GROUP
The Georgia-Pacific Consumer
Products Group is based in Atlanta
and includes more than 70 locations
and 12,000 employees. It is a unit of
Georgia-Pacific, which also makes
paper-based packaging, cellulose,
specialty fibers, non-woven fabrics,
building products, and related
chemicals. Overall the company
employs approximately 35,000 people.
The Consumer Products Group is one
of the world's leading makers of retail
and commercial tissue, including paper
towels, bath tissue, napkins, and facial
tissue. The Group's familiar consumer
brands include Quilted Northern® and
Angel Soft® bath tissue; Brawny® and
Sparkle® paper towels; and Vanity Fair®
napkins, as well as the Dixie® brand of
disposable cups, plates and cutlery.
For more information, visit:
www.gp.com
Contact:
John Mulcahy
Vice President—Sustainability
Georgia-Pacific Consumer Products Group
The Georgia-Pacific Consumer Products Group is always Looking for ways
to make our operations more efficient and effective so that we can serve
our customers better, use resources wisely and minimize our impact on our
communities and the environment. We support the SmartWay® Transport
Partnership because it focuses on resource sustainability through best
business practices and sound technology application.
— John Mulcahy, Vice President—Sustainability
Georgia-Pacific Consumer Products Group
WHY SMARTWAY?
In 2008, the Georgia-Pacific Consumer Products Group joined SmartWay as part
of its larger sustainability effort to operate in an economically sound, as well as
environmentally and socially responsible manner. Participation in SmartWay
allows the company to take a fresh look at the transportation link of its supply
chain, while helping engage with its carriers in new, mutually beneficial ways.
IMPROVING ITS ENVIRONMENTAL PERFORMANCE WITH
SMART TECHNOLOGIES
Since joining SmartWay, the Consumer Products Group has turned to several
technological and operational strategies to help improve its transportation
efficiency and environmental performance. For example, the company
implemented radio-frequency identification (RFID) technology to track trailers
on its mill properties, allowing for faster driver check-in and check-out. The
Consumer Products Group also increased the use of laser-guided vehicles
and automatic loading systems to speed up loading and unloading of trailers.
Additionally, specialized software programs mean that the optimal amount of
product can be loaded onto each trailer, which helps reduce the number of trips.
The group is also testing compressed natural gas units for equipment used to
move trucks and trailers from dock to dock since they run cleaner and more
quietly than diesel units. The group has also upgraded the lighting at six product
distribution centers, which not only improves safety and visibility, but also has
reduced electricity use by 36 percent.
The Consumer Products Group continues to maintain a focus on increasing
intermodal shipping, eliminating idling at mills and distribution centers, and
reducing deadhead miles. The group's centralized transportation data warehouse
gives it the ability to collect and track data from its facilities and carriers, allowing
it to measure progress and encourage continued improvement in reducing miles,
cube utilization, and service and other metrics.
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RESULTS SINCE JOINING SMARTWAY
The transportation strategies that the Georgia-Pacific Consumer Products Group
implemented have produced positive results, helping reduce both greenhouse gas
emissions and fuel use. Since joining SmartWay in 2008, the group has:
Increased its intermodal shipping by an average of 7.7 percent a year
Worked with carriers to reduce empty dedicated miles by 9 percent, or about
2.8 million miles
Reduced total distance traveled from manufacturing facilities to customers
by about 4 million miLes
FUTURE PLANS
The Georgia-Pacific Consumer Products Group is committed to continuous improvement in increasing its supply chain efficiency
through better transportation management. The group actively promotes SmartWay partnership to carriers, and includes it as one
element in its carrier scorecard. More than 98 percent of carriers for the Consumer Products Group are currently SmartWay Partners.
Additionally, the Consumer Products Group holds an annual conference for all freight carriers to review accomplishments from the
previous year and set goals for future performance. Each year at the conference, the Group discusses SmartWay participation in
conjunction with its sustainability goals, and shares ideas for best practices, as well as opportunities for improvement.
WHAT'S NEXT?
Participation in SmartWay is part of the Georgia-Pacific Consumer Products Group's overall
sustainability platform, which emphasizes promoting healthy forests, manufacturing
responsibly, and innovating thoughtfully.
As a SmartWay Partner, the Georgia-Pacific Consumer Products Group will continue to
work on improving transportation efficiency through effective route management, better
trailer utilization, fuel switching, increased use of intermodal shipping where possible,
and other practices that help create value for customers and the company and reduce its
environmental footprint.
Please visit the SmartWay website at www.epa.gov/smartway
for more information about our Partners.
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