Do you have a market ready innovation in the resource efficiency space for the Cummins Environmental Gateway?

Cummins, one of WEConnect International’s corporate members, are launching their Environmental Gateway later this month and they will be looking for market ready innovations in the resource efficiency space – from both corporates and SMEs.

Cummins is a corporation of complementary business units that design, manufacture, distribute and service diesel and natural gas engines and related technologies including fuel systems, controls, air handling, filtration, emission solutions and electrical power generation systems. Head-quartered in Indiana in the US, Cummins currently employs 55,000 people worldwide and serves customers in approximately 190 countries and territories through a network of c600 distributor and c7,200 dealer locations. Cummins earned $1.4 billion on sales of $19.1 billion in 2015. Their website is http://www.cummins.com/ - you can follow Cummins on Twitter: https://twitter.com/cummins or on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/cummins

The Environmental Gateway programme aims to:

• Reduce water, waste and energy consumption
• Achieve Cummins’ 2020 environmental targets
• Increase environmental innovation
• Increase supplier inclusion
• Reduce costs

The categories which Cummins are inviting innovation from suppliers are:

• Technology to benchmark energy/water/waste performance
• Compressors
• Heating, ventilation and air conditioning
• Moving packaging up the waste hierarchy
• Implementation of on-site renewable energy
• IT performance of manufacturing and office equipment
• Reuse of waste heat and energy in test cell operations
• Water consumption of welfare facilities
• Any other innovations

The programme will be launching formally on Thursday 25th August with proposals due by Friday 30th September – so please watch this space!

To find out more, check out this article: http://www.edie.net/library/Business-Cubed--Cummins--new-strategy-that-a...

If you have an innovation that you think could be considered, please contact Marcela Navarro, CEO and Founder of Business Cubed on Marcela@businesscubed.com – Marcela previously worked for RBS and was chair of the WEConnect International Advisory Council and she would love to see women-owned businesses from around the world engaged with the Cummins Environmental Gateway.