blair claflin director of sustainability communications

Blair Claflin

Director of Sustainability Communications

Blair Claflin is the Director of Sustainability Communications for Cummins Inc. Blair joined the Company in 2008 as the Diversity Communications Director. Blair comes from a newspaper background. He worked previously for the Indianapolis Star (2002-2008) and for the Des Moines Register (1997-2002) prior to that.

 

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Housed in an abandoned factory in the suburbs of Beijing, the Dandelion School is the only middle school in the city created specifically for children from low-income migrant families moving to Beijing to find work.

There was no brass band or wild applause when the doors to Cummins’ Acoustical Testing Center (ATC) first swung open to the public last fall.

At certain times, the donations of clothing and household goods would come in so fast to the Sans Souci community thrift store in Columbus, Ind.

When Cummins decided to expand its operations in Africa in 2010, it made sure Corporate Responsibility was included in the planning.

Solar savings The five solar arrays installed at Cummins’ facilities amount to a significant step forward in energy efficiency for the Company.

Three key questions for safety Adam Tucker, the Distribution Business Unit’s Health, Safety and Environmental Director said the “Time Out for Safety” initiative gathered critical insights into important safety projects for the Distribution Business Unit in 2012.

At the height of Super Storm Sandy, Cummins Power Systems’ Steve Philips went 21 hours without sleep, his phone ringing 40 or 50 times per hour until he finally nodded off at his New Jersey home, his computer and cell phone in his lap.

Cummins and Peterbilt Motors Company say a demonstration tractor-trailer they partnered on achieved a 54 percent increase in fuel economy during testing in the fall of 2012, averaging nearly 10 miles per gallon (mpg) under real world driving conditions.

Cummins' Rocky Mount, N.C. Plant Manager Ken Anderson takes an active role both inside the plant and working with educational institutions to develop the next generation of plant employees.