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Viterra Recognized with Blue Circle Award
We were recently presented with a Blue Pacific
Circle Award in Vancouver, recognizing • Replacement of 30 year old
our commitment to sustainability air compressors with new
through various investments at Cascadia Atlas Copco 125HP VFD Air
and Pacific. This involves voluntary Compressors
efforts on our part to conserve energy
and reduce air emissions through the • Continuing automation of the
Port of Vancouver’s EcoAction Program distribution system
and Energy Action Initiative. This is
the second year in a row we’ve been Cascadia
recognized and is a great testament to • New LED lighting on dock
our focus on reducing waste and being floodlights and main office
more energy efficient. Projects that led • Replacement of the indexer Peter Idema, Director Terminal Operations
to this award included: hydraulic systems with ABB (centre), accepts the award on behalf of Viterra.
Flux Vector AC drives
Delegation from China
DID YOU KNOW?
Glencore Agriculture owns the largest crushing facility in The Canadian Malt Barley Technical Centre recently
the world at Timbues, Argentina. In fact, the facility has hosted a delegation of customers from China to teach
as much capacity as the entire Canadian crush industry! them more about the Canadian grain industry and give
Capable of taking in 30,000 MT daily, the Timbues site them an up close and personal look at some of our
does 1000 trucks per day, which works out to 41 trucks facilities. One of the stops was at our Cascadia facility at
per hour or 1.5 per minute! the Port of Vancouver.
Pictured from left to right: Jon White (Viterra), Fang
Yao (COFCO), Qi Wang (Xingze), Peter Watts (CMBTC),
Xingqiang Yin (COFCO), Linyong Li (Xingze), Shipeng
Zhao (Tsingtao), Lei Zhang (Tsingtao), Yongcheng Liu
(Hyaline)
HAS ONE OF YOUR FELLOW EMPLOYEES
ACCOMPLISHED SOMETHING
SIGNIFICANT AT YOUR WORKPLACE OR IN
YOUR COMMUNITY?
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