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in the work we do for our
customers. By helping
businesses enhance
their performance while
reducing reliance on
finite natural resources,
we reduce their costs
and support their growth.
Through digital technology,
connected chemistry and
other innovative solutions,
we deliver economic and
environmental benefits
that make businesses
more efficient, productive
and sustainable.
DRIVING
CUSTOMER
IMPACT
sustainability goals
advance business gains
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We work with our commercial partners at three million locations in more than 170 countries.
Pictured here: Paula Gallup, ADM wastewater treatment plant technician (left), conferring with
Ecolab’s Vice President of Corporate Accounts Tony Bleull at ADM’s plant in Decatur, Illinois.
8 ECOLAB SUSTAINABILITY REPORT 2018 9
TECHNOLOGY HELPS GLOBAL
TOOTHPASTE MANUFACTURER
SAVE WATER AND DRIVE
PRODUCTIVITY
With a strong culture of sustainability,
Colgate-Palmolive is committed to conserving
water and energy and enhancing the efficiency
of its global operations. Its Mission Hills plant
in water-scarce Mexico is a prime example of
the company putting its principles into action.
ANNUAL SAVINGS
315,000
kWh of energy saved per year
87,900
minutes [1,465 hours =
8.7 full weeks] of cleaning and
sanitizing time saved per year
WATER
solutions
Risil Mat™ detergent
Oxonia Active™ sanitizer
INSIGHT
Colgate-Palmolive has a strong and
longstanding commitment to sustainability.
By 2020, the global oral care, home care,
personal care products and pet nutrition
company aims to reduce water intensity
in its manufacturing operations by half,
energy intensity by one-third and absolute
greenhouse gas emissions by 25 percent,
all over a 2002 baseline.
Its Mission Hills plant in Guanajuato, Mexico,
is one of the world’s largest toothpaste
production facilities. It also produces
deodorant, and dish and bar soaps. With
a strong culture of sustainability, the
Mission Hills plant does all it can to
conserve water. It is a zero liquid discharge
site that recycles its treated wastewater for
use in the plant’s utilities and landscaping.
Prior to working with Ecolab, cleaning
and sanitizing the plant was a manual,
hot water-only process that consumed
significant time, water and energy.
INNOVATION
The plant enlisted Ecolab’s help to
improve the efficiency and sustainability
of its cleaning and sanitizing process.
Ecolab brought new solutions to
Mission Hills’ eight manufacturing
lines. One of these, an Ecolab detergent,
removes a wide array of stubborn
processing residues from production
equipment. The other, an Ecolab sanitizer,
provides one-step sanitizing with the
potential to eliminate a final water rinse.
Together, these solutions led to:
• Substantial reductions in cleaning times
• Elimination of manual washes
• Improved cleaning reliability and
product quality assurance
• Significant savings in time, water
and energy use
• Reductions in CO2
emissions
472,500
pounds [200 metric tons]
of CO2 emissions
avoided per year1
1.8 MILLION
gallons [6,800 cubic meters]
of water saved per year,
equivalent to the annual drinking
water needs of 6,200 people