Linde North America’s Toledo Plant Receives Responsible Care Certification
Plant supplies hydrogen for cleaner-burning fuel production
Linde North America has received certification of its Toledo, Ohio, hydrogen plant under the American Chemistry Council’s Responsible Care® program. Linde North America is a member of The Linde Group. The ACC is an association of producers, manufacturers and suppliers of chemical products.
The Toledo plant, which began operating in 2006, is located at the Sunoco refinery site in Toledo. It supplies up to 120 million standard cubic feet a day of hydrogen to the Sunoco and BP oil refineries for cleaner-burning fuel production. It also supplies high pressure steam to the Sunoco refinery for general use. The Linde plant employs 12 people.
The hydrogen helps both refiners meet the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency standards for producing cleaner-burning, lower sulfur gasoline and diesel fuels. The Toledo plant joins five other production locations certified in 2008 under the Responsible Care® program. Those locations are: Cartersville, Georgia; Kittery, Maine; Nashville, Tennessee; South Bend, Indiana; and Vancouver, Washington. Linde’s corporate headquarters in Murray Hill, NJ, also was certified.
"The Toledo plant is surrounded by residential neighborhoods, which intensifies our responsibilities in terms of safety and the environment," said Bob Flage, operations manager for the plant. "The plant’s successful certification shows how committed Linde is to Responsible Care by safely serving our customers and protecting our employees, neighbors and environment.”
The Responsible Care management system offers an integrated, structured approach for driving continual improvement in seven key areas: community awareness and emergency response; security; distribution; employee health and safety; pollution prevention; process safety; and product stewardship.
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