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Soave Enterprises participates in a myriad of environmentally friendly practices within each of its individual business affiliates.

Soave Enterprises is a major recycling advocate, and one that practices what it preaches. Soave is a powerhouse in spreading the practices of recycling throughout the many industries which it has a hand in. Soave’s affiliate, MPS Group, is one which is dedicated to bringing a more efficient method to any company who needs it. MPS Group offers distinct, innovative, tested systems and processes to help you reach your environmental sustainability goals. These systems and processes introduce various greening programs and process improvement strategies to efficiently eliminate, reduce, re-use, recycle and dispose of all waste and by-products that are generated at your facilities, while minimizing your short-term risk and protecting your long-term liability.

“Soave Enterprises is committed to helping support the environment by implementing green recycling practices at home and in the workplace,” the company states. No matter how small, efforts to promote sustainable processes can go a long way. Anthony Soave has always been proud to support green practices and to educate employees, partners, and clients on ways they can reduce their environmental footprint by implementing more sustainable practices.

“Everyday items such as plastic containers, glass bottles, or tin cans and soda cans can all be recycled. In many areas of the United States, curbside recycling is available for no extra cost. Materials can also be brought to recycling centers like those owned by Soave Enterprises. These centers are happy to accept everyday scrap metal items like cans or even larger items such as obsolete appliances or vehicles. Scrap metal can even bring in money, especially large items or more valuable metals such as copper,” shares a Ferrous Processing & Trading representative.

Soave affiliate Aristocrat Motors also presents consumers with the chance to buy vehicles which contribute greatly to recycling. Smart center cars are made with procedures that help to eliminate waste, and are also recycle-friendly. “Truly smart recycling doesn't happen after a car is used and ready for disposal - it starts with the initial design concept and fits every component into a known "lifecycle". So we analyzed alternatives and chose recyclable synthetics for things like our dashboards and wheel housing covers,” explains smart. “We brainstormed how to reduce the number of components and how to assemble them. Examples include our dashboard air system that was reduced from twenty separate pieces to one single molded part. Even our exterior door panels can be easily changed and recycled.”

About Anthony Soave and Soave Enterprises

Soave Enterprises is a diversified management and investment company founded by Detroit businessman Anthony Soave that provides strategic planning, financial and other management resources to its affiliated business ventures in the real estate, automotive retailing, beer distribution, scrap metal, industrial services and transportation industries, among others.  For more information on Tony Soave and Soave Enterprises, please visit http://www.soave.com.

Soave Enterprises

3400 E Lafayette

Detroit, MI 48207

313-567-7000

Soave Enterprises’ affiliate, MPS Group, offers clients an array of benefits to meet their professional services needs on an individual level. 

Soave Enterprises is made up of a dynamic collection of businesses in a variety of industries.  Each one is dedicated to delivering the best service possible, within their respective market.  One of the top companies within Soave Enterprises is MPS Group, an industrial services company.  MPS Group utilizes all of the most important aspects of a successful business within Soave Enterprises.  Here is a brief outline of what sets MPS Group apart from its competition in the managed professional services industry:

Technology – Anthony Soave has always believed in leveraging the latest technology to achieve a higher level of service and efficiency.  True to this commitment, MPS Group proudly puts the latest technologies and quality processes to work for each client.  By utilizing the most advanced technology, MPS Group is able to provide more efficient and sustainable services their clients deserve.

Innovative Management Techniques – Soave Enterprises builds companies by providing the resources and talent necessary to get the job done well. At MPS Group, this initiative is extended to help meet the client’s needs as well.  The most advanced project management services are offered, backed by the solid financial resources of Soave Enterprises to ensure each job is done right and done well.

Complementary Services – At MPS Group, services are not a one-size-fits-all strategy.  A professional team works with each client to identify their specific needs and then tailors a service plan to fit those needs.  MPS Group offers clients a unique menu of complementary services, all created, coordinated, and managed with these specific needs in mind.

Results-Oriented Service – MPS Group offers dynamic, results-oriented experts who are there when needed.  The professional team is trained to identify opportunities for positive change and to prevent potential problems before they arise and to address challenges as they happen.

Cost Effective – MPS Group intensively manages each contract to provide customers the lowest possible life-cycle cost.  MPS Group understands the value of time and resources and works hard to minimize costs and optimize performance and sustainability.  The company’s proven processes are backed by ISO compliant systems to seamlessly facilitate permanent improvements throughout each client’s entire value chain.

Overall, MPS Group is dedicated to putting innovation to work in every facet of their services.  This provides clients the freedom to focus on what they do best…growing their core business.  Meanwhile, clients can have peace of mind knowing MPS Group is professionally, capably, and efficiently taking care of everything else.

About Anthony Soave and Soave Enterprises

Soave Enterprises is a diversified management and investment company founded by Detroit businessman Anthony Soave that provides strategic planning, financial and other management resources to its affiliated business ventures in the real estate, automotive retailing, beer distribution, scrap metal, industrial services and transportation industries, among others.  The MPS Group is a managed professional services company based in Detroit, Michigan.  For more information on Tony Soave and Soave Enterprises, please visit http://www.soave.com.

Soave Enterprises

3400 E Lafayette

Detroit, MI 48207

313-567-7000

Soave Enterprises affiliate, MPS Group, helps clients attain their financial and environmental goals in a convenient, professional, and streamlined process. 

Anthony Soave serves a diverse array of global clients within a variety of industries through Soave Enterprises.  The company encompasses a varied collection of companies spanning industries such as industrial services, waste management, automotive retail sales, luxury real estate, and even agriculture.  One of Anthony Soave’s prized companies is MPS Group, an industrial services company deeply committed to providing innovative and responsible waste management services to help clients clean up environmentally and fiscally.

As a Soave affiliate, MPS Group is committed to achieving the highest levels of customer satisfaction year after year.  The company consistently produces annual reductions in waste volumes and costs for each of its clients.  By evaluating all aspects of a company’s waste management program, MPS Group can utilize its proven performance improvement processes and industry experience to identify and implement initiatives that will result in lower costs the client.  It also helps implement a more modern waste management program that will positively affect each client’s business practices and their overall environmental impact.

Why Choose MPS Group?

The answer is simple.  At Soave Enterprises, we implement proven practices paired with old fashioned personal customer service to provide the highest level of customer care and satisfaction.  At MPS Group, this process is what our customers expect and return for time and again.  In addition to professional ingenuity, we utilize customized, next-generation computer software to track the creation and accumulation of program wastes and by-products, while identifying and optimizing trends for enhanced management.    Our programs are data and goal driven, traceable, accountable and proactive.

Basically, when it comes to compliance, cost savings, and waste reduction, your success is our success!

We offer a breadth of Environmental Service capabilities including:

Regulatory Compliance: This includes expert program management to minimize risks.  We implement proven training programs, a robust compliance audit process, and consistent regulatory reporting.

Cost Management:  MPS Group has a proven record for delivering year-over-year cost reduction via cost reduction planning and implementation that is continuously monitored and documented.  We strive to stretch reduction targets and objectives so you meet your goals.  We offer a convenient flat fee or cost per unit billing structure.

Waste Reduction:  Soave Enterprises is deeply committed to protecting and preserving the environment.  As a Soave affiliate, MPS Group focuses on helping clients reduce waste through Green Program Development with a Zero Landfill mindset.  We offer waste process mapping and streamlining, cost benefit analysis, and regulatory impact assessment.

Continuous Improvement:  At MPS Group, we adhere to ISO 9001 & ISO 14001.  We offer a disciplined and proactive improvement process to leverage industry best practices and set a higher standard for others in our field.  We monitor our progress through electronic data management and robust reporting.

If you have not assessed your waste management processes lately, now is the time.  Contact a Soave representative at MPS Group to learn more about the ways MPS Group can make your company waste management program more efficient, environmentally beneficial, and cost-effective.

About Anthony Soave and Soave Enterprises

Soave Enterprises is a diversified management and investment company founded by Detroit businessman Anthony Soave that provides strategic planning, financial and other management resources to its affiliated business ventures in the real estate, automotive retailing, beer distribution, scrap metal, industrial services and transportation industries, among others.  The MPS Group is a managed professional services company based in Detroit, Michigan.  For more information on Tony Soave and Soave Enterprises, please visit http://www.soave.com.

Soave Enterprises

3400 E Lafayette

Detroit, MI 48207

313-567-7000

Anthony Soave continues to foster a lifelong reputation for service excellence and business integrity, as seen in the practices at MPS Group.

Anthony Soave has worked hard to create a legacy of exceptional service within Soave Enterprises.  Each of the diverse ventures that compose this unique family of businesses offers something extraordinary for their employees, clients, and business partners.  One example of that is seen at MPS Group, an affiliate of Soave Enterprises.

Managed Industrial Services from Soave Enterprises

MPS Group delivers managed professional services centering around innovative, single, and bundled industrial services marketed and sold directly to clients to help them grow and improve their ROI.

What makes MPS Group unique is that they believe in the intrinsic value of personal and financial reward in providing innovative services of the highest value.  Each unit at MPS Group is dedicated to providing the latest and best-in-class practices that genuinely bring a competitive advantage to the clients they serve.  Exceeding client expectations is the focus of everyone’s efforts at MPS Group.

MPS Group offers clients a unique menu of complementary services, all created, coordinated and managed with the specific needs of each client in mind.  Dynamic results-oriented experts are available when they are needed most to spot opportunities for positive change and to prevent problems before they even arise, and addressing challenges appropriately as they arise.

At MPS Group, each contract is managed intensively to provide the customers with the lowest possible life-cycle cost.  MPS Group offers proven practices, progressive technology and strategies, and ISO compliant systems to drive permanent improvements throughout the entire value chain.

Trained for Excellence

To deliver this higher level of customer service, Anthony Soave has ensured that employees at Soave Enterprises and MPS Group are trained to know and expected to adhere to the company’s policy on business conduct, policies, and laws.  It is the responsibility of all employees at MPS Group and Soave Enterprises to create and maintain a work environment that actively fosters ethical decision making, fairness, integrity, reliability, and a respect.

Because of these efforts, the most valued asset at Soave Enterprises and MPS Group is the company’s integrity and outstanding reputation.  MPS Group raises the standard for customer service not only within Soave Enterprises, but throughout the managed professional services industry.  As a leader in the market, MPS Group delivers reliable, trustworthy, and high-value services.

The Value of Integrity

At Soave Enterprises, this elevated level of service and integrity is greatly valued.  From his first days in business, Anthony Soave has built a legacy of excellence and continues to add to it by working within each unique business venture at Soave Enterprises.  For Soave, business centers on trust, and trust stems from integrity.  Integrity is earned, and each employee at Soave Enterprises understands the part they play in molding that exceptional reputation.

About Anthony Soave and Soave Enterprises

Soave Enterprises is a diversified management and investment company founded by Detroit businessman Anthony Soave that provides strategic planning, financial and other management resources to its affiliated business ventures in the real estate, automotive retailing, beer distribution, scrap metal, industrial services and transportation industries, among others.  The MPS Group is a managed professional services company based in Detroit, Michigan.  For more information on Tony Soave and Soave Enterprises, please visit http://www.soave.com.

Soave Enterprises

3400 E Lafayette

Detroit, MI 48207

313-567-7000

Soave Enterprises is always searching for ways to increase efficiency, lower costs, and build profits.  One affiliate of Soave Enterprises is doing just that.  Load optimization is the key to creating significant savings at AK Steel, a leading provider of flat rolled steel to the automotive, infrastructure and manufacturing markets.  Through a growing partnership with AK Steel, MPS Group is helping to bring better awareness and savings throughout the process. 

Soave Enterprises Lives Up to Its Promise

With an on-site presence at their Middletown Works operation since October 2010, Program Manager John Critzer and his team begin by assessing the facility’s waste streams.  Just over a year later, AK Steel was pleased with the results and progress made and MPS Group assumed the entire sludge removal process in December 2011 from the incumbent supplier. 

“We were able to demonstrate to the client that we could generate a significant cost savings on their behalf,” explained Critzer. “In the months since we made that guarantee, the MPS team has confidently lived up to our promise.”

Efficient Disposal

The MPS Group relies on a very consistent process.  Ten MPS employees operate the process 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Each month, the Soave Enterprises group efficiently disposes of 6,500 tons of sludge.  Without the addition of any subcontractors, the team self-performs this work by collecting the waste product in specially designed sludge trailers, properly trimming the load and shipping it to cost-effective landfills.

“Having the trailers depart the facility carrying a precise amount of sludge has been the greatest contributor to success,” notes Critzer. “We quickly became efficient at accurately checking weight.”

Credit is given to all the MPS Group employees at AK Steel for their success. “It has truly been a team effort,” Critzer states. “We look forward to continuing our around-the-clock labor and to the next challenge.”

Continuing Green Behaviors

The work of the MPS Group is yet another manifestation of how Soave Enterprises is dedicated to improving efficiency through constant innovation and hard work.  Since founding Soave Enterprises fifty years ago, Anthony Soave has worked to foster an environment of conservation and innovation to reduce waste and increase profits for itself and each of its clients.  He encourages his employees to take an innovative approach to how they manage resources and waste so the company can continually improve their impact upon the local community and the environment around them.  Soave Enterprises award-winning processes in waste management, materials recycling, and other green industry practices continue to set the bar higher within each industry. 

Anthony Soave and Soave Enterprises

Soave Enterprises is a diversified management and investment company founded by Detroit businessman Anthony Soave that provides strategic planning, financial and other management resources to its affiliated business ventures in the real estate, automotive retailing, beer distribution, scrap metal, industrial services and transportation industries, among others.  The MPS Group is a managed professional services company based in Detroit, Michigan.  For more information, please visit http://www.soave.com.

Soave Enterprises

3400 E Lafayette

Detroit, MI 48207

313-567-7000

Soave Enterprises is dedicated to innovative and environmentally friendly solutions, so it is appropriate that Soave Enterprises affiliate MPS Group would contribute to Ford’s Sharonville Transmission Plant (STP) implementation of an oil reduction/recycling program. The result was a substantial reduction in machining oil usage. This program not only decreases landfill waste, but also helps mitigate risk associated with maintaining compliance with governmental regulations. Plus, the recycling program achieves significant cost savings.

“As the most frequent user of the process, MPS Group was able to provide valuable input to the functionality of the system,” explained Matt Foster, MPS Group’s Total Waste manager for the Sharonville plant. “We have been Ford’s partner in the chip and scrap program at STP since 2007, and part of the total waste management team for longer.”

For its overwhelming benefits and its high potential for replication at other Ford facilities, STP was named the winner of Ford’s 2010 environmental Leadership Award. Eleven North American Ford facilities submitted applications. Ford’s environmental engineer, Phil Utrecht, gratefully acknowledged Soave Enterprises’ contribution, “This project was a team effort, combining the expertise of Castrol, the skilled labor of our Installation Team, the logistics coordination of our MP&L function, and the area management of our Production personnel and Total Waste manager, MPS Group.”

After careful evaluation of oil usage throughout the plant, the team identified several opportunities for recovering oil. They quantified the amount of oil being discarded with swarf (i.e. the fine metallic byproduct of the machining operations), as well as with machined metal chips and implemented a strategy for collecting and recycling the oil. Two production areas were identified for trial of the recycling technologies. A briquetting process was installed on one of the facility’s large straight oil coolant systems. The briquetter serves to compact the swarf material by squeezing out excess oil and reducing the volume of waste material. A chip wringer was installed to process oil-laden chips from the facility’s broaching operations. The wringer centrifugally spins the chips, driving out excess oil that is then recovered for reuse. In addition, the wringer dries the chips, which makes them more valuable in the scrap metal market.

“Our two STP supervisors, Matt Smith and Andrew Peaso, and their seven technicians, are very proactive in monitoring the chip collection boxes. When the chip hoppers are full, the selected steel chips are immediately removed to the interior chip conveyor dump station,” detailed Foster. “Soave Enterprises employees from MPS are on call around the clock to eliminate the risk of production loss. We are dedicated to assisting Ford achieve its goals - environmental and production-related.”

As a result of these oil recycling practices, STP expects to reclaim approximately 40,000 gallons of oil per year at an annual savings of $395,000. These practices will also provide a cost savings associated with a reduced landfill volume. Moving forward, the plant has already begun to investigate the viability of applying these practices to some of its other machining operations as it strives for continuous improvement.

“Sharonville Transmission Plant’s accomplishments are an excellent example of what can be accomplished by a skilled and motivated team,” noted Andy Hobbs, director of Ford’s environmental Quality Office.

MPS Group is part of Anthony Soave’s family of businesses – Soave Enterprises.  At MPS Group, the firm's plans, targets and operational objectives revolve around providing products and services that help customers maintain their competitive advantage. 

Soave Enterprises is a diversified management and investment company founded by Detroit businessman Anthony Soave that provides strategic planning, financial and other management resources to its affiliated business ventures in the real estate, automotive retailing, beer distribution, scrap metal, industrial services and transportation industries, among others.  For more information on Tony Soave and Soave Enterprises, please visit http://www.soave.com.

  Soave Enterprises

3400 E Lafayette

Detroit, MI 48207

313-567-7000

Soave Enterprises and MPS Group’s client was recently honored for their efforts in environmentally friendly processes.  In January, MPS Group client General Motors’ Flint Assembly Plant was named a Michigan Clean Corporate Citizen by the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality (MDEQ). The Clean Corporate Citizen is a voluntary environmental program identifying environmental stewardship at Michigan facilities. MDEQ recognized the home of the Chevrolet Silverado HD and GMC Sierra HD for recycling 75 percent of the waste streams the facility produced.  The facility was commended for their dedication to the environment and for the leadership role they play in the industry.

“The Clean Corporate Citizen program helps recognize environmental leadership in industry,” said MDEQ Director Dan Wyant.  “We are proud to congratulate General Motors’ Flint Assembly Plant for voluntarily doing more than what is required by law and showing pride in the company’s environmental stewardship.”

  Managing Resources Responsibly

Jeff Parker, MPS Group Project Manager for GM Flint Assembly, was gratified to learn that his team’s resource management efforts have been recognized by MDEQ.  Owned by Anthony Soave and Soave Enterprises, MPS Group seeks to implement innovative green processes that focus on effectively managing waste, recycling, and maintaining an awareness of the overall effect on production processes on the local environment.  MPS Group also offers total resource management, project management, industrial services, field and site inspections, maintenance consultation and programmed maintenance services.

The GM facility was also lauded for its reduction of energy and water cost by $2.9 million, recycling 1,080 tons of cardboard, paper, plastic and wood waste, and reducing oil use by more than 6,340 gallons. Any one of these accomplishments would be considered remarkable, and are truly an incredible feat in combination.

Flint Assembly is one of General Motors oldest facilities, coming into existence shortly after World War II in 1947. Since then, the plant has extended itself to become a more sustainable facility. Plant manager Amy Farmer notes, “By earning this designation, we have proved that our older facilities are just as apt to be clean as newer ones. It is our mission at Flint Assembly, as a responsible member of the community, to do our part to create a healthier environment.” MPS Group will continue to work right alongside with them to continue implementing eco-friendly business practices. 

  Soave Enterprises Leading the Way for a Cleaner Environment

At MPS Group, the firm's plans, targets and operational objectives revolve around providing products and services that help customers maintain their competitive advantage.  Every Soave Enterprises employee in every MPS Group division understands how their part of the business is measured and is empowered to make adjustments and to feed lessons learned into the strategic planning process.

  About Soave Enterprises

Soave Enterprises is a diversified management and investment company founded by Detroit businessman Anthony Soave that provides strategic planning, financial and other management resources to its affiliated business ventures in the real estate, automotive retailing, beer distribution, scrap metal, industrial services and transportation industries, among others.  For more information, please visit http://www.soave.com.

  Soave Enterprises

3400 E Lafayette

Detroit, MI 48207

313-567-7000

Anthony Soave works continually to create a service-oriented culture within each of his diverse businesses.  This includes the Soave Enterprises affiliate MPS Group.  With their willingness to serve and customer-focused mindset, MPS Group employees make themselves indispensable while serving on-site with suppliers and throughout their community.

Hubbard High Science Fair

MPS Group’s Lou Rossi and George Naff, who work within the GM Lordstown Complex, exemplified this attitude when they took to the schools volunteered to assist with the local Hubbard High School Science Fair this spring.  Volunteers from various areas of the complex served as judges for the 97 school projects. MPS Group’s Rossi reviewed the students’ work in physics, biology, chemistry, psychology, consumer science and environmental science. The men helped select the 20 projects eligible to continue on to the regional science fair at Youngstown State University.

MPS Resource Manager Jeff Dorer, on assignment at GM’s Component Holdings (GMCH) Wyoming, and the plant’s Environmental Engineering Department recently spent two afternoons with 6th and 7th graders from Rockford Middle School. This teaching opportunity was coordinated through a partnership with the West Michigan Environmental Action Council (WMEAC) and their Teach for the Watershed (T4W) program.

  Teach for the Watershed

T4W is an interactive, watershed education program based on Michigan’s science curriculum standards. With the help of a model provided by WMEAC, Jeff and his co-workers demonstrated how a watershed is impacted by various pollutant sources, such as construction sites, dairy farms, golf courses, agricultural fields and homes. The hands-on approach is popular with students, and the highlight of the demonstration was when students made it “rain” on their watershed to watch the “pollutants” make their way to the lake. 

During the spring, the volunteer team will continue their lessons with in-water invertebrate counts at a local stream. Perhaps Rossi, Dorer and Naff even inspired future Soave Enterprises employees by their above-and-beyond efforts.  They certainly inspire current Soave Enterprises employees to apply the standards of community service encouraged by giving back to important local groups. 

  Serving the Community

For over two decades, Soave Enterprises employees have been giving back to their communities.  Owner Anthony Soave believes it is important to offer service and support for the community to help build a better future for everyone.  From hosting charity events, to supporting local 5K races, education programs, and partnering with charitable organizations across the country, the company is dedicated to giving back in a variety of ways.  Soave Enterprises employees are encouraged to take an innovative approach to supporting programs and initiatives around them so the company can continually improve their impact upon the local community.

Soave Enterprises is a diversified management and investment company founded by Detroit businessman Anthony Soave that provides strategic planning, financial and other management resources to its affiliated business ventures in the real estate, automotive retailing, beer distribution, scrap metal, industrial services and transportation industries, among others.  For more information, please visit http://www.soave.com.

  Soave Enterprises

3400 E Lafayette

Detroit, MI 48207

313-567-7000