News
November 2009
Salt Lake City, Utah, November 10, 2009—Savage Services Corporation of Salt Lake City, Utah (Savage) announces that it has entered into definitive agreements to acquire the assets, terminals and services business of Safe Handling, Inc. of Auburn, Maine (Safe Handling). The transaction is expected to close on November 30, 2009. Read more.
October 2008 Pulp & Paper Magazine features Verso Paper and Safe Handling in case study.
Read how Safe Handling reduced Verso’s transportation costs by 50% and transportation emissions by 90% by replacing long-haul trucking of liquid chemicals with long-haul shipping of chemicals in dry form via rail and then in liquid form regionally with efficient trucks. Click here for story.
October 2008 Ethanol Producers Magazine features Safe Handling’s ethanol terminals.
Click here for article.
August 2008 Safe Handling Earns USEPA SmartWay® Highest Rating
The USEPA’s SmartWay® Transport Partnership is an innovative collaboration between the U.S. EPA and the freight industry to increase energy efficiency while significantly reducing greenhouse gases and air pollution. Safe Handling is a partner in this program and in August, our fleet was again given the USEPA’s highest rating for fuel efficiency, 1.25. Click here for the SmartWay website.
June 2008 Safe Handling Opens Ethanol Terminal in Pennsylvania
Safe Handling opened the only ethanol rail-to-truck transloading terminal in Mount Pleasant, PA. Served by Canadian National, CSX and Norfolk Southern railroads, the terminal is within 100 miles of dozens of petroleum terminals in western Pennsylvania, Ohio, and West Virginia. Click here for press coverage. Click here for our electronic brochure.
June 2008 MEMIC recognizes Safe Handling For Workplace Safety
At its Annual Meeting, Maine Employers Mutual Insurance Company recognized Safe Handling and 5 others out of nearly 22,000 policyholders for their efforts in workplace safety. Click here for details. Click here for excerpts from the MEMIC Awards video.
March 2008 – Ford Reiche Earns Maine Small Business Person of the Year
Ford Reiche, Safe Handling’s president and co-founder, was awarded the US-Small Business Administration’s 2008 Maine Small Business Person of the Year. Click here for details.
March 2008 –Safe Handling Wins “Innovative Company of The Year” Award
Safe Handling was recognized by the Maine International Trade Center (MITC) as the Maine Innovative Company of the Year. Click Here for details. Click here for the excerpts from the MITC Awards video.
March 2008 - Ford Reiche Earns MaineBiz Large Company Business Leader Of The Year
MaineBiz Magazine selected Ford Reiche, Safe Handling’s president and cofounder, as the 2008 Large Company Business Leader of the Year. Click here for details.
February 2008 - Safe Handling Earns ISO14001 & Responsible Care
Safe Handling President, Ford Reiche, says, “We’re pleased to be recognized for our management systems focused on minimizing our impact on the environment. This has always been a priority for us, but to be one of the first Maine-owned businesses to receive ISO14001 is especially rewarding. This was a highly ambitious goal, and I’m very proud of our team.”
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January 2008 – Safe Handling Promotes CFL’s
Safe Handling’s president, Ford Reiche kicked off 2008 by giving all 100 employees a gift of 12 Compact Fluorescent Light bulbs (CFL’s), packaged in a re-usable fabric grocery bag. Efficiency Maine rebated $1.50 for each package. The bulbs will save each employee $750 over the life of the bulbs and this initiative will reduce power plant CO2 emissions by 240 tons, equivalent to taking 40 cars off the road for a year.
December 2007 – Safe Handling Opens Maine’s First Ethanol Terminal
On December 13, 2007 Safe Handling announced the opening of Maine’s first ethanol terminal. Governor John E. Baldacci joined other industry and government officials in the opening celebration.
September 2007 – USEPA Rates Safe Handling Fuel Efficiency “Outstanding”
Safe Handling earns USEPA SmartWay Transport Partnership’s highest rating on fleet fuel efficiency – an “Outstanding.” Click here for details.
August 2007 - Safe Handling Joins USEPA Smart Way Grow & Go Program
Safe Handling becomes Charter Member of US EPA’s Smart Way Transport Grow & Go Program, encouraging trucking companies across the country to use biofuels to reduce emissions and reduce the county’s reliance on foreign oil.
July 2007 - Safe Handling Converts to Biodiesel
Safe Handling converts its fleet to biodiesel. http://www.sunjournal.com/story/222235-3/Business/The_green_scene/ )
June 2007 – Safe Handling #1 in Governor’s Carbon Challenge
Safe Handling becomes #1 in the Maine Governor’s Carbon Challenge, meeting its voluntarily pledge of reducing transportation carbon emissions of the products it toll processes by 75%.
May 2007 – Safe Handling Hires VP of Sustainability
Safe Handling hires Andy Meyer as VP Business Development – Green Initiatives, focusing on finding new sustainable businesses like biofuel manufacturing, and helping to improve the sustainability of Safe Handling’s core business.
