Review of Current Trend in Sustainable Manufacturing

Target is partnering with the NRDC on the NRDC’s Clean by Design Initiative to reduce manufacturing’s environmental effects. Additionally, Target was a founding member of the SAC, which developed the Higg Index as an environmental and social sustainability self-assessment standard. As a result, Target uses the Higg Index as part of its vendors’ annual scorecards and is working with SAC members on the launch of the Higgs Index 2.0. Finally, Target also partnered with the WRI as one of the road test companies of WRI’s sustainability SWOT or sSWOT (Target, n.d.a,; Metzger, Putt del Pino, Prowitt, & Goodward, 2012, p

There are several obstacles for manufacturers attempting to employ changes in their processes for more sustainable practices. One problem that manufacturers will run into is the lack of direction. Knowing that change is needed is the easy part of reaching sustainability. Knowing what changes to make is a much more complicated challenge. The idea of sustainability is discussed often, yet broad scope ideas are traded without specific details and applications. Team B Consultants Inc. (TBCI), is the

The carmaker, which employs 15,000 people, including 3,500 engineers at two product development centres in the Midlands, is part of the EU ETS scheme and has signed up to a Climate Change Agreement. Head of sustainability Frances Leedham says One of my objectives is to make environment and sustainability part of doing business. It was unheard of a few years ago, but there is a clear incentive to decarbonise our economy and focus on renewable energy. Across our UK facilities we have set ambitious targets, and by 2012 we aim to reduce operating carbon emissions by 25 per cent, waste to landfill by 25 per cent and water consumption by 10 per cent. So crucial is the companys sustainability agenda to long-term business growth that a 9m fund has been set aside for investment in efficiency measures across the business, targeting areas where the biggest savings can be made. Jaguar Land Rovers paint shops, for example, have been identified as the largest consumer of energy in the whole manufacturing process. By sharing best practice between production sites, the company has implemented more than 50 initiatives-from optimising use of air compressors to closing parts of the paint shops when they are not being used. These measures have saved 13,200 tonnes of carbon emissions and more than 1.5m in energy costs over the past two years. But Leedham insists smaller schemes have a significant effect, too Things such as lighting, heating

Most of the Top performing companies in India and around the world have increased their focus on sustainability and improved their current efforts around reduction of emissions, water, energy, climate change and waste management. We know that according to Brundtland definition of Sustainable Development "a development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs", Tata Steel is a good example for this definition. [1]

The industry can be very susceptible to environmental issues together with other manufacturers. With the advent of campaigns toward saving the environment and “going green”, the society is now more concerned with how the industry’s wastes and other by-products are being managed. Using recycled materials and recycling one’s wastes can affect the industry’s over-all image as an environmental advocate.

One of the largest car manufacturers in the world is located in Japan which is Toyota. Toyota’s employees believe in the high technology and innovation to provide their products to their customers. However, they should invest more money and their attention more to manufacturing more of the eco-friendly cars ("Business Overview", 2011).

Environmentally friendly production is when natural resources are conserved and aren’t exploited. The benefits to this type of production is lower costs (reduce, reuse, recycle), attract new customers as being environmentally friendly makes a business/country stand out from the rest, and there is improved sustainability. There are various methods to be applied to the production of goods and services in order for it to become more beneficial to the environment.

Proper marketing and understanding of the consumer needs have always been strong suites of the print industry and could be carried over into a new consumer need, sustainability. Corporations and consumers are now paying closer attention to companies and their actions as it pertains to environmental impact. One area where the industry has adapted well is providing the consumer with substrates that reduce, or enable recycling or re-use. When it comes to how corporations regulating environmental issues, the print industry has not quite caught up. Corporations are looking at greenhouse gas emissions and other pollutants often involved in the industry. This being said, companies in the industry are beginning to ask

Since 2009, H&M’s actions for a more sustainable future in textile retail are growing vastly. H&M’s goal strongly coincides with the previously mentioned triple bottom line approach: according to Amatulli, de Angelis, Costabile and Guido, “the goal of H&M is to ensure that all operations are sustainable and meet the need of current and future generations along all three sustainability dimensions – the economic, environmental and social” (Amatulli et al., 2017, p.157).

Local, regional and national studies have examined perceptions of the industry’s sustainability, how communities value the industry and appropriate institutional responses to the industry’s challenges in Australia, Canada, Europe, Mexico and the United States. One study in the United States and two in Australia suggested that parts of society view the industry’s environmental sustainability favourably, although there was low awareness of some of the environmental issues challenging the industry (Blackstone 2001; Aslin and Byron 2003; Mazur et al.

There is an increasing focus towards business sustainability in the present times. Companies are expected to operate in a manner that they do not harm the environment or impact stakeholders in negatively (Daft, 2008). Unethical and unsustainable practices are condemned with stakeholders particularly the consumers, governments and pressure groups openly pressurizing companies to change their practices and accept responsibility for their actions (Ferrell, Fraedrich & Ferrell, 2011). For multinational corporations, attaining sustainability within their supply chains is important. Even though supply chain sustainability is an emerging concept, large corporations are showing interest towards developing sustainable supply chain.

the European Union. For industry, a set of common guidelines would reduce costs and facilitate

Green technology is becoming a corporate responsibility as more people realize how their electronic products impact the environment. The average household owns 24 consumer electronic products, according to ENERGY STAR, which is a program that was created by the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to identify the best ways to conserve energy. Electronic products are made with resources and materials such as metals, plastics, and glass, which all require energy to mine and manufacture, according to the EPA. Despite this, Earth’s natural resources can actively be restored if consumers and architects of technology work together.

Introduction The contribution of mechanised and automated manufacturing to various environmental impacts is enormous. Environmental impacts from manufacturing industries can be seen such areas as toxic chemicals, waste, energy, and carbon emissions. Manufacturing in developed countries is also a heavy user of water, and there have been many cases of air, water and soil contamination which have led to such actions as cleanups, class actions suits and a variety of other corporate liabilities. Environmental impact can be seen in all phases of textile production and use, from growing or making fibres to discarding a product after its useful life

Green manufacturing is a key player in providing cleaner energy resources, reducing greenhouse gases and other harmful emissions, degrading the impact of these gases, conserving natural resources and minimizing wastes. Not only will it be beneficial to grow the renewable energy and clean technologies industries for environmental purposes, but it will also be beneficial to the global economy, as “It is estimated that green energy can save [Europe] 3 trillion Euros by 2050”. “Green jobs are growing faster than overall job growth in the United States”, thus showing that being environmentally sustainable is a necessity and is becoming a major component of a manufacturers business plan to stay industrially competitive. Green