POLLUTION PREVENTION INTERNSHIP-1999
DEPARTMENT OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERING
UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
METAL FINISHING
STRATEGIC GOALS PROGRAM
Thilanka Dissanayake
Jessica Early
September 7, 1999
POLLUTION PREVENTION INTERNSHIP – 1999
STRATEGIC GOALS PROGRAM INTERNSHIP
Interns:
Thilanka Dissanayake
Senior, Chemical Engineering
Phone: (603) 862 – 8114
Jessica Early
Junior, Chemical Engineering
Phone: (603) 868 – 7379
Contact Person:
Linda Darveau
Environmental Specialist, EPA
Phone: (617) 918 – 1718
Fax:
(617) 918 – 1810
STRATEGIC GOALS PROGRAM INTERNSHIP
Table of Contents
Executive Summery
4
Introduction
5
Goals and Objectives
6
Approach and Methodology
7
Chemical Usage
10
Releases and Wastes Generated
10
Details of Work Accomplishments and Project Results
11
Pollution Prevention Benefits
11
Recommendations for Future Efforts
11
References
12
Appendices
A: Statement of Commitment
13
B: SPG Worksheet
14
C: Metals and Chemicals list for sections 4 and 5
19
D: List of facilities visited and has completed worksheets
20
E: Pictures of some metal finishing facilities
22
EXECUTIVE SUMMERY
Strategic Goals Program (SGP) is a voluntary cooperative effort by the American
Electroplaters and Surface Finishers Society (AESF), National Association of Metal Finishers
(NAMF), Metal Finishing Suppliers Association (MFSA), and by the Environmental Protection
agency (EPA). This was started to promote metal finishers to be better than compliance levels.
Facilities joined the SGP by signing a statement of commitment. Then a SGP worksheet
was completed for the baseline year, followed by a worksheet for years 1997 and 1998, provided
baseline year was not 1997 or 1998.
SGP has specific goals listed in the worksheet that gears facilities towards pollution
prevention and Environmental and Energy conservation. Main goal of the program is that each
facility meats the goals by year 2002, in comparison with the baseline year. SGP specific goals
are,
 50% reduction in water use
 25% reduction in energy use
 50% reduction in land disposal of hazardous sludge and reduction in sludge generation
 50% reduction in metals emissions to air and water
 98% metals utilization
 90% reduction in organic chemicals emissions to air and water
 Reduction in human exposure to toxic material
 Compliance with environmental performance standards
When facilities complete and download worksheet information to SGP database, they would
receive a numerical cord that can be used as a password for that particular facility to refer to their
data and benchmark against other facilities, and their own baseline year. Therefore, facilities can
track their performance and progress towards achieving above goals.
Completing SGP worksheets are mostly self-explanatory, but a detailed description
would be provided later in the report.
From the exposure to many facilities visited during the internship’s duration, it was seen
that many facilities have already achieved many goals by now, compared to their baseline year or
are very close in achieving them. Many facilities have decreased or eliminated the usage of
chemicals which are hazardous or would lead to hazardous byproducts.
To encourage many more facilities to join the SGP it is suggested to give more publicity
to SGP, since facilities should join the program voluntarily and with much interest. To promote
progress towards goals, recognition or awards may be given to those facilities who are making
good progress.
INTRODUCTION
Strategic Goals Program (SGP) is a voluntary program and a cooperative effort
established by the following organizations:
 American Electroplaters and Surface Finishers Society (AESF)
 National Association of Metal Finishers (NAMF)
 Metal Finishing Suppliers Association (MFSA)
 Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
To join this program each facility would sign a Statement of Commitment as a CSI
Charter 100 Company, for the Strategic Goals Program Metal Finishing Sector (please see
appendix A).
The program establishes a set of voluntary National Performance Goals for the metal
finishing industry to perform better than compliance levels. SGP Worksheets (Please see
appendix B) help facilities track annual progress towards goals, and help achieve the goals by
year 2002, as intended by the program.
For each facility, a worksheet was completed for a baseline year (baseline year would be
discussed in detail further in the report), and 1997 and 1998, if baseline year was not 1997 or
1998. Each year in the future, they would complete a worksheet for that year, which would be
due on February 15, annually. These worksheets were mailed to the following address;
National Center for Manufacturing Sciences (NCMS)
Strategic Goals program
3025 Boardwalk
Ann Arbor, MI 58108-3266
Here, information of each facility would be entered to a database (if worksheets were not
completed on the web format).Information about each facility would be available at
www.strategicgoals.org as a database, anonymously.
Initially, facilities would receive a numerical code as a password that could be used in the
anonymous database, to obtain that particular facilities information and for benchmarking.
Annually, each facility would receive a report card of their performance towards achieving goals.
GOALS AND OBJECTIVES
Goals of the program are clearly explained and mentioned in the worksheets itself.
Mainly they are,
 50% reduction in water use
 25% reduction in energy use
 50% reduction in land disposal of hazardous sludge and a reduction in sludge
generation
 50% reduction in metals emissions to air and water
 98% metals utilization
 90% reduction in organic chemicals emissions to air and water
 Reduction in human exposure to toxic material
 Compliance with environmental performance standards
Achieving all these goals are compared to the baseline year.
Main goal is for facilities to achieve these goals by year 2002.
Objectives of the strategic goals program is to make industries observe the costs
associated with regulatory issues and how they can save by achieving these goals. This promotes
them to stay with the program and obtain more benefits. Some of these objectives and benefits
are,
 Track compliance costs not contributing directly to environmental protection
 Track cost savings associated with achieving goals
 Assess progress towards National Performance Goals
 Benchmark progress against other metal finishing facilities
 Assess each year’s progress compared to your own or other facilities
Benchmarking progress against other metal finishing facilities, and assessing each year’s
progress compared to your own or other facilities can be easily obtained by using the password
and the data base.
APPROACH AND METHODOLOGY
This section of the report would directly refer to each section of the worksheet to explain
each section and to provide information on obtaining data for completing the worksheets.
Section 1: Background information
This section provides information as to what year the worksheet was made for, basic contact
information of the facility, and a production unit measure for comparison.
Baseline year:
To compare each year’s progress towards goals, a baseline year was chosen for each company.
This year maybe 1992 or a closer year above 1992, depending on the availability of information
for completing the worksheets.
If a facility had had major changes since 1992 (combining with another facility, complete
re-installation of machinery due to fire etc.), then the closest year after the changes was the
baseline year. For a facility starting after 1992, first year of operation may be the baseline year.
The environmental expert at the facility provided the baseline year.
A worksheet was completed for the baseline year, and 1997, 1998 (provided that the baseline
year is not 1997 or 1998), and every year after that.
Other background information deals with information about facility and the person handling
environmental issues at the facility.
Accounting for changes in production:
This is to help calculate progress per unit production for each metal finishing company to make
all comparisons uniform. Each facility selected a unit they please depending on uniformity with
their book keeping.
This information was available in inventories or in annual production reports.
Section 2: 50% reduction in water use and 25% reduction in energy use
Provides information on energy resources used for the year.
Water consumed:
If facility discharged any process water used for metal finishing, this section was completed.
Water usage was located by utility bills, annual reports or any other recording of utility usage.
Energy consumed
Amount of all varieties of energy used.
Again, utility bills or annual reports provided all the information.
Section 3: 50% reduction in land disposal of hazardous sludge and a reduction in sludge
generation
This section collects information on wastewater and sludge generated and recycled.
Wastewater sludge generated:
Total amount of hazardous sludge generated for the year was reported.
Waste manifests (F006 sludge values) provided all the information.
Sludge land disposed:
If the facility generated any F006 sludge that would not get recycled (if the sludge would be sent
to landfill), that numerical value for the year was reported.
Again, waste manifests provided all the required information.
Average wastewater (ww) content of sludge:
Value of average water content in ww treatment was reported here. If the facility did not have a
numerical value and used the same technique to remove water from sludge since baseline year
and would be using the same in the future, that method was specified.
This information was often obtained by discussions with the person handling environmental
issues at the facility.
Section 4: 50% reduction in metals emissions and 98% metals utilization
This section provides information on metals and metal compounds used for metal finishing. List
of metals provided in this table are the most used chemicals that may provide hazardous
emissions (appendix C).
Metals used:
Names and amounts of metals and metal compounds used were recorded.
This information was obtained from inventories, annual usage/production reports and purchase
records. When pure compound information was not available (if compounds were purchased as a
compound mixture, etc.) pure metal amount was calculated using MSDS information.
Air emissions:
Quantity of air emissions caused by metals or metal by metal compounds was recorded here.
This information was obtained from TRI reports and TRI worksheets for that year.
Water Discharge:
Quantity of metals in water discharge was recorded here.
Again information from TRI reports (POTW section) or TRI worksheets was used here.
NOTE:
1. Many facilities would not have air and water emission information on some or all metals they
used since the emissions were below detection limits and could not be detected. Then “0”
was entered for that as the value, on the database.
2. Many facilities would not have TRI information if facility produce waste below TRI limits.
Disposal of in Landfills:
If facilities had sludge sent to landfills this section was completed.
Information from laboratory reports from waste disposal company hired by the facility provided
all the information.
Section 5: 90% reduction in organic chemical emissions to air and water
This section records information on any hazardous organic chemicals used for metal finishing.
Appendix C provides all the recognized hazardous organic chemicals used in metal finishing
industry.
All organic chemicals used in facility was compared against the list in appendix C and hazardous
chemicals were chosen.
Quantitative information on them were obtained from TRI reports (if available) of other reports.
NOTE:
Section 6 through 10:
Since this is a checklist that should be completed by a person having a good understanding and
exposure to facilities environmental aspects, environmental expert for each facility completed
this section.
Section 6: Reduction in human exposure to toxic materials
This section collects information on whether each facility takes steps and precautions on
minimizing workers exposure to toxic materials, and educating them.
Section 7: Compliance with environmental performance standards
Records information on environmental inspections and violations, if any.
Section 8: Track compliance costs not contributing directly to environmental protection
Obtains cost information on compliance and monitoring, that does not directly involve with
environmental protection.
Section 9: Track cost savings associated with achieving goals
Information on savings made by improvements in environmental conservation.
Section 10: Progress towards National Performance Goals
Discusses of any reasons a facility may have in not being able to make further progress in
achieving goals. These maybe economic and/or technical infeasibility, or since they have
achieved maximum progress at that point depending on the available technology and resources at
that time.
Section 11: Data availability
This is a section where the facility can declare whether they want to anonymously include data in
public releases (database, etc.) or not. Independent of any choice, they still may benchmark
against other information in the database, and get a report card annually.
CHEMICAL USAGE
Please see appendix C for a list of chemicals this program deals with, and sections 4 and
5 for further details on specific chemical usage.
Many facilities have reduced or completely eliminated usage of many of these chemicals.
Specially, chemicals discussed in section 5 were not used in many facilities.
RELEASES AND WASTES GENERATED
Sections 3, 4, and 5 deals with releases and wastes SGP deals with. Please refer to this
section for more information.
Again, many facilities have reduced or eliminated usage of many hazardous chemicals
which eliminated many releases. Even if certain chemicals from appendix C were still used,
many precautions were used to minimize releases (scrubbers, ion exchangers, etc.).
Some facilities completely recalculate process water to eliminate wastewater production
and many recycle and de-water waste streams to decrease generation.
DETAILS OF WORK ACCOMPLISHMENTS AND PROJECT RESULTS
A total of 15 metal finishing facilities were visited during the duration of the internship.
12 facilities have all the worksheet information completed, and information included in the
database (please see appendix D for a list of facilities).
These facilities would receive a numerical password to obtain their own information from
the database. Therefore, they may benchmark themselves against other facilities of the same
production scale and compare their own progress, annually or for the total time since the baseline
year.
POLLUTION PREVENTION BENEFITS
Following are a list of goals SGP sets. Therefore, each facility staying with the program
strives towards these goals, which leads to pollution prevention. Even if a facility does not
achieve these goals completely, their effort to do so still provide a lot of pollution prevention.
 50% reduction in water use
 25% reduction in energy use
 50% reduction in land disposal of hazardous sludge and a reduction in sludge
generation
 50% reduction in metals emissions to air and water
 98% metals utilization
 90% reduction in organic chemicals emissions to air and water
 Reduction in human exposure to toxic material
 Compliance with environmental performance standards
RECOMMENDATIONS FOR FUTURE EFFORTS
From the experience we received in dealing with many facilities, we assume it is most
beneficial if facilities joining the program do so completely out of their interest in the SGP.
Therefore, if SGP gets more publicity in industry, many more facilities would learn about the
SGP and volunteer.
To promote achieving goals and pollution prevention progress, depending on their
progress and report cards, if facilities are honored (recognition, awards, certificates, titles etc.),
they would be more interested and would be a better challenge.
REFERENCES
 Goerge Cushni: Presentation on SGP and completing worksheets, June 3, 1999

Discussions with Linda Darveau: environmental specialist, EPA, Boston

Pollution prevention workshop: University of New Hampshire

Dr. Ihab Farag: Chemical Engineering Department, University of New Hampshire
APPENDICES
A: Statement of Commitment
B: SPG Worksheet
C: Metals and Chemicals list for sections 4 and 5
D: List of facilities visited and has completed worksheets
E: Pictures of certain facilities visited
APENDIX A: Statement of Commitment
(Is only available in paper format and can’t be typed in to the report either. Therefore is only
available in the report hard copy.)
APPENDIX B: SPG worksheets
(Is only available on hard copy and web format only, and cannot be inserted in to report
without major alterations. Only in report hard copy.)
APPENDIX C: Metals and Chemicals list for sections 4 and 5
(Is from a treferance meterial, and is only in report hardcopy)
APPENDIX D
List of facilities visited and has completed worksheets
Alleghany Rodney Strip Division
1357 East Rodney
French Blvd
New Bedford MA 02744
BF Goodrich Aerospace
100 Panton RD
Vergennes VT 05491
Central Metal Finishing
80 flagship Drive
North Andover MA 01845
Duraelectra
61 North Avenue
Natic MA 01760
Federal Metal Finishing
18 Dorrance Street
Charlstown MA 02129
Granite State Plating
88 Airport Drive
Rochester NH 03867
Hadco
7 Mancheter Road
Derry NH 03038
Hadco
46 Rogers Road
Wardhill MA 01835
Huber and Suhner
19 Thompson Drive
Essex VT 05461
Precious Metal Plating
15 Wardhill Avenue
Haverhill MA 01835
Reliable Plating
523 South Bridge Street
Worcester MA 01610
Walbar Metals
Peabody Industrial Center
Peabody MA 01961