On Air
Transportation/Supply Chain
As a company with products that are sold on a global scale, we rely on transportation via truck, train and ship to deliver our products to customers. To minimize the impact of these operations on air quality, we attempt to transport our products as efficiently as possible by increasing load factors, using cross docking procedures and shipping higher volumes. Since October 2006, all truck carriers use a low sulfur diesel to meet new emissions standards required by law.
Reducing Trucks on the Road
Hormel Foods works to reduce the number of trucks on the highway and the number of shipments, resulting in not only supply chain efficiencies and cost savings to the company, but also a reduction of fuel consumption and air emissions.
- Increased trailer on flat car shipments in 2006 by 1,250 shipments
- Increased average shipping weight from 31,000 to 36,500 pounds from May 2005 to January 2007
- Reduced the number of trucks on the road by 15 percent from May 2005 to January 2007
Greenhouse gas emissions data can be found on page 27 of our full report [PDF].