Kuntz Electroplating Inc. cares about the environment and our flawless track record is not a bonus, it’s a must. We continuously invest in new environmental green technologies and our Environmental Management System (EMS) is an industry benchmark. We were the first metal finisher in the world to simultaneously achieve QS-9000 and ISO-14001 certification.
We are committed to conducting business in a manner that protects the health and safety of our employees while protecting the environment. As a result, a team of over 40 of our company's highly skilled employees have significant involvement in environmental monitoring and control including water treatment, waste reduction, recycling, co-generation, and ventilation.
Award-Winning Environmental Systems:
- We are committed to conducting business in a manner that protects the health and safety of our employees while protecting the environment.
- One of the first companies in the industry to achieve ISO-14001 certification.
- We are 100% compliant with all European End-of-Life directives.
- Our products do not contain hexavalent chrome and are 100% recyclable.
- Our natural-gas co-generation plant can supply us with close to 70% of our own energy needs. It also reduces airborne pollutants by over 100,000 tons/yr.
- Power Deferral Program: Our power plant supplies power to our community when needed.
- Steam produced as a by-product of co-generation is used throughout our processes.
- New waste water treatment facility
- State-of-the-art ventilation and pollution control to both improve internal plant air quality and to significantly reduce emissions (stack and workplace testing)
- National Pollution Prevention (Canadian Council of the Ministers of the Environment).
- Award of Excellence – Industry Conservation (Ministry of Energy & Environment).
- Pollution Prevention Achievement Award (Ontario Ministry of Environment).
- Patented Oximate Nickel Treatment process reduces the amount of waste generated.
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