Aug 7 2010
Crayola, a color crayons manufacturing company, has announced the opening of its 15-acre solar farm situated in a large field behind the companies’ head quarters in Forks Township, Northampton County.
The unveiling ceremony was attended by officials from U.S. government and Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection along with the representatives of PPL and UGI Energy Services that has completed the solar power installations.
The project was constructed and commissioned utilizing the services of PPL, a Lehigh Valley based company and Reading based UGI Energy Services. The solar farm incorporates more than 26,000 panels to produce an annual energy of 1.9 MW. Crayola claims that the energy produced is enough to manufacture nearly one third of the total three billion crayons manufactured by the company every year.
Peter Ruggiero, who leads Crayola global operations as Executive Vice President, said that green represents not just a color for Crayola and that the installation allows them, the use of renewable energy sources, lessens the production of waste and protects the rain producing forests and above all motivates the kids of today, to motivate others, for a better world.
Source: http://www.crayola.com/