News and content about corporate responsibility innovations in the construction industry.
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07-01-10
/PRNewswire-FirstCall/ - Owens Corning (NYSE: OC) today released its fourth annual Sustainability Report, which outlines the company's progress in reducing its environmental footprint, greening its product lines, providing energy-efficiency solutions for the built environmen...
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06-07-10
Holcim has launched its Corporate Sustainable Development Report 2009 at www.holcim.com/sustainable
Despite the difficult economic climate, Holcim reports that it has remained committed to sustainable development, as shown by...
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06-03-10
/PRNewswire-FirstCall/ - Caterpillar Inc.'s (NYSE: CAT) recently constructed remanufacturing and components facility in Singapore has received the "Green Mark Gold Plus" award from the country's Building Construction Authority (BCA). Each year, the BCA honors the "most outst...
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05-24-10
/PRNewswire-FirstCall/ - To showcase its world-class technology leadership, Caterpillar Inc. (NYSE: CAT) is supporting the NASA Lunabotics Mining Competition at the Kennedy Space Center, Cape Canaveral, Florida. The event, May 27-28, 2010, is designed to engage and retain co...
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05-12-10
CEMEX (NYSE:CX) has released its 2009 Sustainable Development Report. To review the full online report or download its executive summary, visit cemex.com/sustainability.
CEMEX’s approach is to build a smart world together:...
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05-11-10
ArcelorMittal, the world’s largest steelmaker, today announced the publication of its annual Corporate Responsibility report for 2009: Our progress towards Safe Sustainable Steel.
This report underlines ArcelorMittal’s continued commitment to corporate responsibility, despite the chall...
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04-15-10
/PRNewswire-FirstCall/ - Owens Corning (NYSE: OC), a leading global producer of glass fiber reinforcements for composite systems and residential and commercial building materials, yesterday launched a global competition to find new applications for composite materials. Annou...
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04-15-10
/PRNewswire/ - Novelis Inc., the global leader in aluminum rolled products and aluminum can recycling, today announced that it recycled an estimated 40 billion used beverage cans in 2009. The company's focus on beverage can recycling saved more than 76 trillion BTUs of energ...
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03-25-10
/PRNewswire-FirstCall/ - Caterpillar Inc.'s 2009 "Year in Review" and annual Sustainability Report are now available online at www.cat.com. The 2009 Year in Review, "How We Win," highlights the company's financial performance...
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02-19-10
Caterpillar Inc. (NYSE: CAT) is pleased to announce Michael Betz has been selected as one of Engineering News-Record's (ENR) "Top 25 Newsmakers of the Year." Betz led the engineering team that researched and developed the D7E, the first electric drive track-type tractor in t...