Over the years, DuPont Canada has been honoured with numerous awards for excellence in the promotion and pursuit of sustainability. The hard work of many teams and individual employees throughout the organization has made a significant contribution in helping DuPont Canada achieve its goal of "improving shareholder and societal value while decreasing its environmental footprint along its value chains".
In 1998, the Ontario Ministry of the Environment presented DuPont Canada with its Environment and Energy Award of Excellence for Industry Conservation for the progress made by the company in conserving energy.
In 2000, the Ministry of Natural Resources Canada, Office of Energy Efficiency, presented the company with its Energy Efficiency Award 2000 in the category of Comprehensive Projects - Large Energy Users. Through research, effective networking and the strategic application of new energy technologies, DuPont Canada improved its per-unit energy consumption by 28 per cent between 1990 and 1999. The company's Manufacturing Energy Management Team provided leadership in integrating energy conservation and energy efficiency opportunities within the company's constantly evolving business priorities.
DuPont Canada was also a finalist in the category of Process Improvement Projects - Large Energy Users. Engineers at DuPont Canada designed a novel approach to capture waste steam from the polymerization process and used it to power HVAC equipment at the Kingston plant. Conserving steam has not only reduced energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions, it also eliminated the need to install additional steam equipment when plant capacity was expanded.
For two consecutive years - 2001 and 2002, DuPont Canada was a winner of the Voluntary Challenge & Registry (VCR) Leadership Award for in recognition of extraordinary commitment, action, best practices and leadership toward the voluntary reduction of greenhouse gas emissions.
Doug Muzyka , President and Chief Executive Officer, DuPont Canada, accepts the 2002 VCR Leadership Award from the Honorable Herb Dhaliwal, Minister of Natural Resources.
E.I. du Pont de Nemours and Company (the global DuPont company) presented DuPont Canada with its "Sustainable Growth Award" for its greenhouse gas emissions trading process (2000); for its design of an innovative system for containing possible accidental releases of a high temperature heat transfer fluid (2001); for its cost-per-unit program with Ford Canada - instead of being paid for volume of paint sold, DuPont is now paid for the number of vehicles painted - (2001); and for various recycling programs at its Kingston site (2002).
The Canadian Association of Agri-Retailers chose the DuPont™ Acurum™ automated grain analysis system as one of the Top 10 New Technologies in 2004. DuPont™ Acurum™ is an advanced technology that uses digital imaging and artificial neural networks to objectively assess specific quality factors in grain. Grain industry customers who use this technology can make better and more consistent decisions when buying, selling and blending grain, compared with the more subjective process of doing a manual visual inspection. DuPont Canada has a long-term global licensing agreement with the Canadian government to commercialize the system, which was developed initially by Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada.
DuPont is the 2005 recipient of the International Association for Food Protection’s (IAFP) Black Pearl Award. While the award was granted to global DuPont, the submission team and contributors were largely Canadian. The opportunity to submit an entry originated through DuPont’s involvement with the Ontario Food Protection Association . The Black Pearl Award is the most prestigious international award in the food industry. It recognizes outstanding achievement in corporate excellence, in advancing food safety and quality through consumer programs, employee relations, educational activities, adherence to standards and support of the goals and objectives of the IAFP. The Black Pearl Award submission demonstrates the overall DuPont efforts to advance food safety in keeping with our 2010 vision, while reflecting the perspectives of our different business platforms and units involved. Through this award, DuPont has been recognized as a company committed to delivering safe food solutions at each link in the food value chain around the world – from farm to fork.
The International Association for Food Protection honoured DuPont with the prestigious Black Pearl Award.
In 2006, DuPont Canada won the Canadian Chemical Producers' Association's (CCPA) Excellence in Safety Award. This award recognizes CCPA member companies who have demonstrated excellent safety performance as measured by the Total Recordable Incident Rate over a period of 5 years. DuPont Canada is the only CCPA member company in its group size to have won this award in every year since its inception in 1997.
