IACI was pleased to present the 2008 Environmental Excellence Award to Micron Technology. The purpose of the IACI Environmental Excellence Award program is to provide recognition to businesses who, through innovative environmental leadership and accomplishment, have achieved outstanding results in environmental protection and enhancement.
Micron is recognized for its remarkable innovation using cold river water from an existing aquifer recharge system to cool their deionized process water through a heat exchanger. Annually, the project provides energy savings of 6.6 million kilowatt hours, saves water consumption by 11.9 million gallons and CO2 greenhouse gas emissions by 1,664 tons. The Award was presented to Micron environmental engineers at the 2008 Annual Meeting on June 23, 2008 at Tamarack Resort. Click here for the full press release.