A Savanna manufacturing company makes one million water bottle refilling stations
Elkay Manufacturing in Savanna, IL, has passed a huge milestone. And they say they re only picking up steam. Author: Shelby Kluver (WQAD) Updated: 9:22 PM CDT July 11, 2021
SAVANNA, Ill. Elkay Manufacturing in Savanna, IL, has officially produced one million water bottle refilling stations.
The refilling fountains are what you might find in schools, airports, businesses, conference centers and more, across the country. Elkay first started producing the stations a decade ago, as a way to keep plastic water bottles out of circulation and to promote clean, healthy drinking water. A million of our units out in the field. if you do the math, it s about 40 billion plastic water bottles less in landfills, in the river, you name it! So that s a pretty big number, said Joe Lentini, Senior Director of Manufacturing at the company s Savanna, Illinois, plant. That s e