Kenworth manufactures environmental standard

KIRKLAND, Wash. — Kenworth Truck Company will begin producing Class 8 trucks to the same environmental standard established at the company’s medium-duty Quebec facility.

Kenworth’s medium-duty products are produced at the PACCAR manufacturing facility in Ste. Therese, Que. The facility currently holds ISO certification for effective environmental management systems established which also currently holds the ISO status.

Kenworth’s Class 8 manufacturing facilities in Chillicothe, Ohio, and Renton, Wash., have recently earned the prestigious ISO certification and will begin building Class 8 trucks in an environmentally sustainable manner.

“The Kenworth-Chillicothe and Kenworth-Renton manufacturing facilities have successfully developed and implemented innovative and effective, industry-leading systems designed around the theme of ‘Reduce, Reuse and Recycle’ to decrease emissions, noise and waste sent to landfills,” said Marilyn Santangelo, Kenworth assistant general manager for operations.

The ISO standard is internationally recognized and provides guidelines, along with specific requirements for an environmental management system. ISO is a network of the national standards institutes of 157 countries with a Central Secretariat in Geneva, Switzerland, which coordinates the system.


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