E3, EPA and NASCAR Green have teamed up to encourage businesses to operate more sustainably through the NASCAR Green/E3 Challenge.

Manufacturers participating in E3 compete to implement recommendations to:

• Reduce environmental impacts
• Improve efficiency
• Generate measurable cost savings

The winner is selected for demonstrating an outstanding commitment to world-class business practices that align with sustainability and making the company more profitable.

NASCAR Green/E3 Challenge Winners

NORTH CAROLINA, 2013

• Thermo Fisher Scientific, Asheville, NC

VIRGINIA, 2014

• 1^st place: Blue Ridge Fiberboard Incorporated, Danville, VA
• 2^nd place: Kennametal Inc., Chilhowie, VA
• 3^rd place: Woodgrain Millworks, Marion, VA

2014 Virginia NASCAR Green/E3 Challenge Award Ceremony Photo Gallery

Blue Ridge Fiberboard (Danville, Virginia), one of the challenge winners.

Virginia NASCAR Green/E3 Challenge Winner

Woodgrain Millworks (Marion, Virginia)

Catherine Kummer, LEED Green Associate/NASCAR Green Innovation and Joe Hundley, Process Engineer and Energy Champion, Blue Ridge Fiberboard.

Watching the award ceremony are (left to right) Catherine Kummer, NASCAR, Bill Donohue, President, Executive Director, GENEDGE ALLIANCE and Tom Zbell, Project Manager, GENEDGE Alliance.

Bill Donohue, President, Executive Director, GENEDGE.

Nelson Teed, Executive Director for the Manufacturing Technology Center (MTC) of Wytheville, a GENEDGE affilliate.

Catherine Kummer, NASCAR.

Matt Bogoshian, Senior Policy Counsel, Office of Chemical Safety and Pollution Prevention, US EPA.

At the ceremony, Clay Campbell, President of Martinsville Speedway, speaks.

E3 and NASCAR present the winners with their plaques for their tremendous work leaning their facilities.

Mindee Osno, E3 Sustainability Coordinator, EPA Region 3

Martinsville Speedway