Under this project, the company has deployed 65 GenDrive fuel cell powered lift trucks at the Sarasota distribution facility. This includes retrofit of 36 existing lift trucks to hydrogen fuel cell technology and addition of 29 new hydrogen fuel cell-powered lift trucks to its fleet.
UNFI partnered with a number of companies, including Plug Power, Air Products and Chemicals and Abel Womack for the implementation of the project.
Through this project, the company hopes to reduce carbon emissions by approximately 132 metric tons annually and create annual energy savings of approximately 640,000kWh.
Tom Dziki, senior vice president of sustainable development at UNFI, said: “We’re pleased to successfully complete this project, which retrofitted 36 existing lift trucks to hydrogen fuel cell technology and added 29 new hydrogen fuel cell-powered lift trucks to our fleet.”
