Week 2: Success Stories - "Real World Examples from the Metal Manufacturing Industry " Building on Week 1, this course will give in depth examples from businesses with an emphasis on the metal manufacturing sector. We will show how one company went beyond recycling to save over $500,000 while improving their productivity, supply chain reliability […]
Week 3: Best Management Practices for Metal Finishing presented by Miguel Rodas and Jennifer Kong. This training offers a rare look inside the practices businesses use to improve efficiency for metal finishing processing. The benefits and challenges of over 50 techniques to reduce waste, improve water use efficiency, and lower costs will be explored. The […]
Week 4 offers Best Management Practices for Cutting Fluids and other issues. This training will showcase some of the work the Washington Department of Ecology (Rolfe Parsloe) has done to help businesses voluntarily lower their regulatory burden while improving efficiency, lowering waste and increasing their competitiveness. The focus will be on cutting fluids.
Week 5: "Safer Alternatives in Solvent Applications for Metal Processing." Katy Wolf will cover solvents including vapor degreasing, paint stripping, aerosol cleaning lubricants, and metalworking fluids are used by thousands of companies for cleaning metal processing. This training will explore potential alternatives to harmful solvents and tradeoffs for each of the methods. Also covered is […]
Week 6 covers Using Lean Manufacturing to uncover opportunities.This course explains how to use over a dozen lean principles for optimal performance in metal manufacturing. It will look at it from the unique perspective of using lean to reduce material use and waste. These techniques reduce waste such as time, labor and rework, by using […]
Week 7 - Thomas Vinson, Zero Waste Enterprises will explore Lean Practices and Success Stories. This talk will dive deeply into the processes businesses use to identify lean projects, prioritize their activities and build support within the company.
Western Nevada College and greenUP! invite Auto Shops from all over Nevada to attend. College students and professionals in the automotive industry are also invited. Topics covered during this FREE workshop will be environmental best management practices (BMPs), alternatives to harmful cleaners and solvents, electric vehicles, and how to become green certified in the […]
October Training Program Flyer The Reno+Sparks Chamber of Commerce is partnering with the Nevada Green Business Network to help local businesses become green certified. Free and exclusive to Chamber members, the Nevada Green Business Training Program will be held on October 26, 2021 from 8:00 am to 11:45 am at the Chamber of Commerce. […]
The Carson City Chamber of Commerce is partnering with the Nevada Green Business Network (www.nvgreenbusiness.org) to support Chamber members in getting certified as a green business. Learn how green certification can help to expand your customer base by attracting environmentally conscious consumers. 8:00 am – Registration and Coffee 8:30 am – Gain a Competitive Advantage […]
Join KTMB, Down To Earth Composting and Full Circle Soils & Compost and others on Saturday, April 2nd for a Food Waste Prevention and Composting workshop in Reno. Visit ktmb.org for more information and to sign up.
A series of four (4) trainings will be given by Katy Wolf, Ph.D. and hosted by greenUP! This session will describe the graffiti removers on the market today. Millions of dollars are spent each year on graffiti control by cities and counties and safer alternatives are available. It will include a discussion of three alternative […]
The Reno+Sparks Chamber of Commerce is partnering with the Nevada Green Business Network (www.nvgreenbusiness.org) to support Chamber members in getting certified as a green business. Becoming a green business is a great way to increase profitability. Reducing utility costs through energy and water savings can free up resources that can be invested in strategic priorities. […]
