Wilbur-Ellis honored For Facility Safety

The Wilbur-Ellis Company was recently honored with the ResponsibleAg certification at its Central Ferry branch.  The ResponsibleAg honor was launched by members of the fertilizer industry in 2014 to promote public welfare and agribusiness that comply with federal environmental, health and safety requirement.  Wilbur-Ellis’ Ryan Klaveano told the Washington Ag Network this is an honor for the company, but more importantly, “for our employees and for our local communities.  So, that means they are safe and secure and highly efficient operations.”

Klaveano added the Central Ferry award is the first for Washington, but he doesn’t anticipate it will be the last.

“First of all, you’re not done, right, you have to continue to maintain your facilities up to these high standards.  And then obviously it expands from here.   We’ll build from the learnings that we had from our Central Fairy team and try to expand it to other facilities across the Northwest and across the nation.”

This marks the 11^th Responsible Ag certification awarded nationwide to Wilbur-Ellis.

Central Ferry currently manufactures two types of fertilizer on site, aqua ammonia and ammonium phosphate.

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