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Why Stanley Black & Decker Joined SmartWay

“Our success in measuring, and then shaving, energy demand and resultant Scope 1 and Scope 

2 emissions associated with our brick-and-mortar operations has allowed us to apply the same 

productivity lens to reducing Scope 3 tailpipe emissions from vehicles that transport our finished 

goods and our employees. Our SmartWay Transport Partnership is the most well established of 

our Scope 3 emissions reduction initiatives and has stimulated parallel efforts around the globe.” 

Deborah Patterson, Vice President of Environment, Health, and Safety, Stanley Black & Decker

Company 

Profile

Stanley Black & 

Decker,an S&P 

500 company, is a diversified 

global provider of hand tools, 

power tools and related 

accessories, mechanical access 

solutions and electronic 

security solutions, healthcare 

solutions, engineered 

fastening systems, and more. 

Learn more at 

www.stanleyblackanddecker.com.

Contact:

Deborah Patterson

Vice President

Environment, Health, and 

Safety

Stanley Black & Decker

1000 Stanley Drive

New Britain, CT 06053

T 860.827.3825

F 860.515.2755

C 860.922.1847

Deborah.Patterson@sbdinc.com

Stanley Black & Decker Uses SmartWay 

Tools to Reduce Freight Footprint

SmartWay Focus

Stanley Black & Decker was introduced to the SmartWay program by Solutions Engineers at 

Menlo Worldwide Logistics and has been a SmartWay Partner since 2009. Our percentage of 

miles driven by EPA Transport Partners has increased from 78% in 2009 to 93% in 2011. The 

SmartWay emissions factor of our truckloads has decreased 11% from 2010 to 2011, reflecting 

increased fuel efficiency across our fleet, including the addition of high performing SmartWay 

carriers. The environmental footprint of our North America transportation (Scope 3 emissions) 

decreased by 135,824 tons of CO2e from 2010 to 2011, a 20% reduction. 117 SmartWay 

carriers transported SBD finished goods nearly 257 million miles in 2011.

Benefits & Results

Our SmartWay Transport Partnership is one of several ongoing initiatives 

to shave our energy demand, increase our efficiency, and reduce the 

environmental load of our logistics and distribution network. 

Modal Shifts and Shortened Routes – Efficiencies to 

Reduce the Footprint of Our Transportation Network

SBD European transportation staff pioneered the transition from truck-torail and truck-to-barge for the regional transport of inbound finished 

product arriving at our North Sea ports. 

Truck-to-rail and truck-to-barge modal changes took 4760 full 

container loads of inbound product off European highways 

Stanley Black & Decker 2010-2011 SmartWay Emissions Factor

Scope 3 CO2 Emissions

2010

MODE E-FACTOR

(CO2 G/M)

CO2 

(CO2 TONS/YR)

Truck 1946 596,921

Multi-modal 1623 49,212

Logistics 1968 19,480

TOTAL 665,613

2011

MODE E-FACTOR

(CO2 G/M)

CO2 

(CO2 TONS/YR)

Truck 1730 493,038

Multi-modal 1706 20,677

Logistics 2007 16,074

TOTAL 529,789

Partner Profile
Stanley Black & Decker 

In 2013, employees from MAC Tools, SBD Corporate Freight, UPS, Menlo 

Worldwide Logistics and Expeditors International gathered for a lean freight 

event at SBD’s Columbus Fulfillment Center. Drawing on the principles of the 

Stanley Fulfillment System (SFS), the team identified 30 projects to reduce 

SBD’s transportation demand and optimize logistics. Going forward SBD 

will assess and implement those projects that hold the most promise for 

increasing freight efficiency in the company’s global supply chain. 

in 2011, with a resultant 893,350 less miles 

driven translating to 2300 mT in Greenhouse Gas 

avoidance.

North America transportation staff applied the 

same modal shift principle to both inbound 

and outbound freight, transitioning more than 

1,040,000 million 2012 miles from truck to rail 

across 4 outbound lanes alone.

Direct shipping to Canadian customers has also 

shortening shipping routes, with a single route 

change saving 84,240 highway miles in 2012. 

Sustainable Packaging – 

Efficiencies to Reduce Our 

Transportation Demand

SBD is using Walmart’s Sustainable Packaging 

3.0 software to characterize the current state of 

our shipping and selling unit packaging, in order 

to set enterprise-wide packaging reduction goals. 

Quantification is based on Key Performance 

Indicators including packaging material 

sustainability profile (footprint), transport distance, 

package: product ratios, and cube utilization.

Looking Ahead

Stanley Black & Decker is committed to 

sustainable business policies and initiatives that 

reduce our impact on the environment and 

improve the quality of life in every community we 

reach. 

SmartWay’s transportation management tool 

has allowed us to increase the fuel efficiencies 

of our transportation and decrease the emission 

factors of that transportation, delivering a more 

sustainable logistics and distribution footprint for 

Stanley Black & Decker. 

Partnerships like SmartWay with verifiable results 

have helped Stanley Black & Decker achieve 

recognition as a Dow Jones Sustainability Index 

company for North America, and recognition as 

our Sector Mover in 2012.

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