Sustainability @ Visiontron

Sustainability & Environmental Awareness at Visiontron

Product:

• We primarily use aluminum in our line of crowd control stanchions which is generally a greener material for the following reasons:
  
  • Aluminum is much lighter. It lowers shipping costs and overall impact.
  • Aluminum is easier to recycle at the end of the product’s life to the average customer.
  • Polished Chrome and Satin Chrome on steel are produced using caustic chemicals. (Our plater meets or exceeds EPA standards.) Polished Aluminum and Satin Aluminum are mechanical finishes, reducing the amount of chemicals and waste used.
• We offer our Utility Post featuring a RECYCLED-RUBBER base (recycled base can be added to most other products.)
• We use recycled corrugated boxes which are further recyclable.
• We have employees bring in their used empty boxes to be re-used for packaging of inventory and orders.
• Most stanchions ship Knocked-Down: uses half the shipping material, ships much more efficiently, and the box can be reused to save storage space.
• We offer units with longer belts so you can use less posts to cover the same area.
• We make sure our painters, platers and anodizers meet or exceed current EPA standards.

Facility:

• Our roof has a 265.5 kW Solar Panel System which produces up to 339,000 kWH per year. This is equivalent to approximately 46.7 homes electricity use for a one year period. That’s a huge environmental savings!
• We replaced the shop heating unit with smaller more efficient units, lowering our BTUs by 33%.
• We replaced the office heating/air conditioning unit with 4 smaller efficient units, lowering our BTUs by 50%.
• We use Electric Forklifts which are more environmentally friendly than propane powered units. They are now being charged by the sun!
• We installled weather seals around loading docks to reduce energy waste during loading/unloading.
• We upgraded our air compressor to a more efficient rotary screw design and replaced all piping. 
• Replaced old factory fluorescent lights to energy efficient LED lightning with motion sensors.
• All office lights have been replaced with low-powered LED fixtures with fewer bulbs per fixture.

Practices:

• Printed catalogs get outdated very quickly and you need to print enormous amounts to be cost effective (which most end up being thrown out any way.) We haven’t printed a major catalog since 2001. Instead we rely on our website and individual flyers.
• We use scrap paper for most in-house paperwork (and get yelled at for using clean paper!)
• All waste paper is collected weekly for recycling. Each active desk has its own recycle bin.
• There is a separate dumpster for cardboard recycling.
• We pay recyclers to take scrap wood products (skids, lumber, packing material, etc.) which gets recycled as landscaping mulch.
• We reuse crates and cardboard packaging material we receive from vendors for other deliveries and in-house stocking of materials.
• We reuse old clothes as rags for the shop and art department.
• Employees bring in newspapers to be reused for packing products.
• We purchase energy efficient computers and peripherals.

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