Fruit of the Loom Inc. honored with the offsite renewable energy award

Fruit of the Loom is committed to socially responsible efforts and also recently joined The Sustainability Consortium and the company also received the Corporate Social Responsibility Seal from FUNDAHRSE in 2017.

Fruit of the Loom Inc., Bowling Green, Ky., was honored with the Offsite Renewable Energy Award for its Merendon Power Plant during the 2018 Smart Energy Decisions Innovation Summit. The awards recognize creative technologies and progressive thinking practices by large electric power users.

Fruit of the Loom established the Merendon plant identifying a requirement for a renewable energy source at it’s manufacturing facilities in Honduras, which operates as part of the Fruit of the Loom corporation.

The plant helped the company reduce its carbon footprint by more than 51,500 metric tons each year, which is the identical to removing 11,028 passenger cars from the road for one year, according to the Environmental Protection Agency.

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