Partners
How can you stay competitive and learn effective strategies to reduce waste and save money throughout your operations? By joining the Green Suppliers Network.
A Green Suppliers Network Partner is a small or medium-sized manufacturer interested in improving its bottom line with the Lean and Green Advantage.
Why Join?
- Meet the growing demand for sustainable manufacturing and greener products. Bring the experts to your shop floor to find customized solutions to reduce your environmental footprint. Along with your company's self-selected team, our experts will evaluate a product or process line to identify a set of concrete actions you can take to increase efficiency and improve your facility's production and environmental performance. With hands-on training, your employees will be able to apply Green Suppliers Network review tools to other process areas across your operations.
- Boost your bottom line. You retain all cost savings from implementing Green Suppliers Network review recommendations. You decide which recommendations to implement, and you decide whether to pass the cost savings to pass on to your customers, and how much.
- Get experts on demand. We collaborate with state, local, and other federal agencies to provide the best technical, financial, and research assistance available to help you implement review recommendations and foster a smarter, more efficient green workforce.
- Receive confidential reports. You will receive a confidential, facility-specific final report outlining all potential cost savings and environmental opportunities. Neither EPA nor your customer has access to your facility-level data unless you choose to make the results available.
Partner Commitments
- Commit to completing a Green Suppliers Network review. Joining the Green Suppliers Network is free, but the cost of a typical review varies depending on factors such as the depth and focus of your technical reviews and the expertise of your local NIST MEP.
- Work with your local Green Suppliers Network to prepare for your technical review.
- Participate in an onsite technical review, which takes approximately three to four days, including a half-day pre-visit and two to three days of onsite training and review. EPA is not involved in any onsite technical assistance.
- Receive your final report, including recommendations and cost–benefit analyses, within four to six weeks of completing your review.
- Complete a follow-up survey within one year from the review to measure results and document success from implementing your selected review recommendations.
