Manufacturing
News and content about corporate responsibility innovations in the manufacturing industry.
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01-07-11
Partners In Health, Abbott and the Abbott Fund Unite to Combat Severe Childhood Malnutrition in Haiti
Partners In Health (PIH) and Abbott and its philanthropic foundation, the Abbott Fund, today announced a partnership to empower Haitians to create local solutions to the longstanding problem of severe malnutrition in Haiti. Together, PIH and Abbott plan to build a nutritiona...
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12-20-10
Fibria Celulose SA publishes Sustainability Report 2009
Fibria Celulose, the world’s leading producer of market pulp, has issued its first Sustainability Report, describing the company’s achievements and challenges in the economic, financial, social and environmental spheres during 2009.
The information presented in the report is based on a M...
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12-20-10
Novo Nordisk praises historic declaration to fight diabetes
On December 13, 2010, twenty-two countries from the Middle East and Northern Africa (MENA) and five international organisations agreed on the "Dubai Declaration on Diabetes and Chronic Non-Communicable Diseases in the Middle East and Northern Africa Region." The agreement wa...
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12-14-10
Saint-Gobain and CertainTeed Launch Three-Year, $550,000 Partnership with YouthBuild USA
/PRNewswire/ - Saint-Gobain and CertainTeed are joining forces with YouthBuild USA to support its green education and job-training program for low-income youth. At a national kick-off event today in Philadelphia, Saint-Gobain and CertainTeed announced they are providing a th...
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12-10-10
Novo Nordisk welcomes new guidelines on human rights
On the occasion of the 62nd anniversary, Novo Nordisk welcomes the Draft Guiding Principles presented by Professor John Ruggie, Special Representative to the UN Secretary General. The Ruggie's Guiding Principles elaborate and clarify for companies, states, and other stakehol...
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12-09-10
Help Smithfield Help Hungry Homes
/PRNewswire/ - According to the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), 50.2 million people last year lived in food-insecure households, including 17.2 million children. Smithfield Foods, the leading processor and marketer of fresh pork and packaged meats in the Uni...
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12-06-10
P&G Announces its First North American Manufacturing Plant to Achieve Zero Waste to Landfill
The Procter & Gamble Company (NYSE:PG) today announced that its Auburn, Maine site became the first P&G manufacturing plant in North America to achieve zero waste to landfill.
The feminine care facility worked with both employees and sup...
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12-03-10
Representatives of the UN, NGOs and private sector discuss new approaches to achieving the Millennium Development Goals at the Novartis Foundation symposium
- Experts from North and South continue the New York Millennium Summit dialogue at the annual symposium held by the Novartis Foundation for Sustainable Development in Basel
- The symposium will assess the progress made to date in achieving...
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12-01-10
Henkel Employees Participate in a Company-Wide Community Service Day
/PRNewswire/ - On Friday, December 10, employees of Henkel Consumer Goods Inc., makers of well-known consumer brands in North America, including Dial® soaps...
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11-29-10
Bayer and United Nations Environment Programme Invite Students to Participate in 2011 International Children's Painting Competition on the Environment
Bayer Corporation and the United Nations Environment Programme's Regional Office for North America (UNEP RONA) are inviting North American students, ages six to 14, to enter the 20th annual International Children's Painting Competition (ICPC) on the Environment.
