Sysco drives green initiative with hydrogen vehicles (Houston)
Sysco Corp. is using $1.2 million from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act to upgrade 98 vehicles at its 585,000-square-foot distribution facility in North Houston to hydrogen fuel cells instead of rechargeable lead-acid batteries.
The new facility, which Sysco acquired in March, is the foodservice giant’s first greenfield site that operates without battery recharging and storage infrastructure. The entire material handling fleet — 72 pallet trucks and 26 forklifts — are now powered by GenDrive hydrogen fuel cells manufactured by Plug Power Inc.
Overall, the project cost $3.2 million, says Mark Palmer, Sysco’s vice president of corporate communications. That cost includes the equipment, installation and infrastructure.
Read more in the Houston Business Journal
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