New: NACFAM Releases its Sustainability Framework Model
Developed for quick, easy use by small, medium or large manufacturing companies with limited data, providing traditional financial outputs and straightforward energy and environmental outputs.
Washington, DC. Chairman and CEO Rusty Patterson today announced that the National Council for Advanced Manufacturing (NACFAM) is releasing its final version of the NACFAM Sustainability Framework Model, after months of work under CEO-Emeritus Eric Mittelstadt.
Created and prepared for release by Jeffrey Mittelstadt, NACFAM's Vice President for Sustainable Manufacturing, the Model is designed for use by companies of all sizes to prioritize sustainable manufacturing projects, calculate financial and environmental impacts from multiple combinations of potential projects, and help companies assess multiple environmental categories simultaneously.
Click here to learn more and to download NACFAM's Sustainability Framework Model.
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