ampCNG Signs Fueling Agreement with US Foods to Build 20th CNG Station

ampCNG announced a fueling and station agreement with US Foods, one of the country’s largest foodservice distributors, that includes building a public-access fueling station in Buda, Texas to serve the food distributor, the station’s anchor tenant.

Located adjacent to the US Foods’ distribution center, the ampCNG fast-fill station will have two dual-hose dispensers serving two lanes. ampCNG expects to break ground in early 2017 and will open the station in Summer 2017.

“We’re grateful for the support we’ve received from the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) as we bring our eighth station online in Texas,” said Grant Zimmerman, CEO at ampCNG. “We share in TCEQ’s commitment to reducing emissions and improving air quality.”

US Foods recently won a Texas Emissions Reduction Plan (TERP) grant for 40 new CNG trucks bringing its Buda, Texas-based CNG fleet to a total of fifty trucks.

“US Foods continues to make improvements across the company to reduce our environmental footprint and allow us to serve our customers in an energy efficient way,” said Dario Skocir, vice president of transportation, US Foods. “Increasing the number of CNG vehicles in our fleet allows us to continue to reduce our annual fuel costs while reducing the amount of emissions emitted during our daily deliveries to customers.”

The new station marks ampCNG’s eighth in Texas, bringing its total station network to 20. New station projects are under development to further expand ampCNG’s footprint in Texas, as well as in Georgia, Illinois, Tennessee and California.