2000 Winners

Small Business

Colonial Acres Golf Course - Glenmont, Albany County
Colonial Acres Golf Course, located in Glenmont, was established in 1964 is a privately owned nine-hole golf course. With 33 1/2 acres of property of which 13 1/2 are woodlands or water areas, Colonial Acres has been a certified Audubon Cooperative Sanctuary since 1998. Working with Audubon International, Colonial Acres has been using organic and biological products for the control of pests to reduce the amount of synthetic pesticides and petroleum-based products on its fairways and greens.

Mid-Size Business

Olin Corporation - Niagara Falls, Niagara County
Olin Corporation, located in Niagara Falls and employing 175 people, is a chlor-alkali manufacturing facility. This facility liquefies chlorine gas produced by the electrolysis of sodium chloride. A portion of the chlorine gas stream, composed of inert gases that cannot be liquefied, is commonly known as "tailgas." By modifying the process operation, Olin was able to recover and recycle the by-products generated from the tailgas scrubbing. This process eliminated a 16,500-gallon per day discharge of a brine/carbonate waste stream to the City of Niagara Falls wastewater treatment facility. The total cost of the project was $6.5 million.

Large Business

Dresser-Rand - Olean, Cattaraugus County
Dresser-Rand Olean Operations, employing over 1,400 people, is a manufacturer of multistage and pipeline centrifugal compressors, power turbine and gas turbine packages, and hot gas expanders. These products are primarily used in applications such as oil and natural gas production, transmission, and refining. By applying best management practices, initiating maintenance programs, and substituting chemical processes that contributed to the hazardous waste inventory, Dresser-Rand reduced its hazardous waste generation by 95 percent and attained qualification as a small quantity generator. Dresser-Rand estimates they will save 50 cents for every pound of hazardous waste reduced, with the savings being cumulative over the years.

Ortho-Clinical Diagnostics, Inc. - Rochester, Monroe County
Ortho-Clinical Diagnostics, Inc. (OCD), an operating company of Johnson and Johnson, is located in Rochester and employs approximately 1000 people. OCD is a manufacturer of diagnostic clinical chemistry systems for professional laboratories, hospitals, and physicians' offices. The product line consists of biological fluid analyzers that utilize small disposable slides containing thin reagent and registration layers for testing of biological chemistries, electrolytes, enzymes, and lipids. By reducing the size of the clinical chemistry chip mounted on the finished slide, hazardous waste was reduced in excess of 200,000 pounds annually. The total projected cost associated with this program was approximately $5 million with the internal rate of return for the first phase of the program estimated at $4 million. The second phase of the project will reduce manufacturing costs an additional $3 million annually.

Federal, State and Local Governments and Educational Institutions

New York State Office of Mental Health
The Office of Mental Health (OMH) is a New York State government agency with 30 locations across the state. Through a commitment to energy efficiency, OMH has successfully reduced its overall energy consumption by more than 56 percent. Nearly 25 trillion BTUs of raw energy have been preserved, which translates into atmospheric reductions of 4,850 tons of nitrous oxides (NOx), 6,619 tons of sulfur dioxide (SO2) and 2,417,876 tons of carbon dioxide (CO2). This reduction in carbon dioxide alone is equivalent to the emissions reduction gained by permanently removing 75,000 cars from the streets and highways of New York State.

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More about 2000 Winners:

NYS Governor's Awards for Pollution Prevention - Colonial Acres Golf Course - Colonial Acres Golf Course was established in 1964. It is a nine-hole golf course that has 20 acres of naturalized areas, woodlands and water. Approximately 13 acres are maintained turf. The course receives approximately 26,000 rounds of golf a year.
NYS Governor's Awards for Pollution Prevention - Dresser-Rand - Dresser-Rand Olean Operations, located in Olean, New York employs more than 1,400 employees. Dresser-Rand is a leading manufacturer of multistage and pipeline centrifugal compressors, power turbine and gas turbine packages and hot gas expanders. These products are used primarily in applications such as oil and natural gas production, transmission, and refining.
NYS Governor's Awards for Pollution Prevention - NYS Office of Mental Health - The New York State Office of Mental Health (OMH) employs about 18,000 employees that serve more than 5,600 in-patient and 32,000 out-patient clients at their 30 psychiatric centers spread across New York State. In 1990, the Governor of New York issued Executive Order 132 requiring all state agencies to reduce their energy consumption by 20 percent by the year 2000. Since then, OMH has reduced its energy consumption by 57 percent.
NYS Governor's Awards for Pollution Prevention - Olin Corporation - Olin Corporation, located in Niagara Falls is a chlor-alkali manufacturing facility that produces chlorine gas by electrolysis of a sodium chloride solution (brine).
NYS Governor's Awards for Pollution Prevention - Ortho-Clinical Diagnostics - Ortho-Clinical Diagnostics, Inc. (OCD), an operating company of Johnson & Johnson, employs approximately 1,000 people at several locations in the Rochester area.