Manufacturing
News and content about corporate responsibility innovations in the manufacturing industry.
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09-26-06
Company Continues to Gain Recognition from Working Mother Magazine for Meeting the Needs of Moms Generation After Generation
ABBOTT PARK, Ill.-- Working Mother magazine today announced that Abbott (NYSE: ABT) is one of the "Top 10" 100 Best Companies for working mothers. For 21 years, the Working Mother 100 Best has celebrated employers whose groundbreaking work/life initiatives --from flexible sc...
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09-22-06
Operation Smile Honors Abbott With Corporate Humanitarian Award
LOS ANGELES, Calif.- Operation Smile honored Abbott for the company's long history of outstanding citizenship and philanthropic efforts with its Corporate Humanitarian Award at the organization's annual gala last night.
"As one of our largest...
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09-15-06
Bayer MaterialScience Executives Visit Penn State to Present $300,000 Bayer Foundation Grant
PITTSBURGH, PA - At a gathering of students and faculty, Bayer MaterialScience executives today presented a $300,000 grant from the Bayer Foundation to The Pennsylvania State University and its Department of Materials Science and Engineering to fund the Bayer Graduate Fellow...
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09-14-06
Abbott Again Named to Dow Jones Sustainability Index For Leadership in Business, Social, Environmental Performance
ABBOTT PARK, Ill., - Abbott has once again been named to the Dow Jones Sustainability World Index (DJSI World) in recognition of the company's leading economic, social and environmental performance.
The Dow Jones Sustainability Index is the wo...
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09-07-06
Bayer Announces Program Lineup for Stem Education Diversity Forum in September
PITTSBURGH - Bayer Corporation announced today the slate of best practice K-12 STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) education programs to be featured at the company's first-ever STEM education diversity forum, which will be held in Washington, D.C., this fall.
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08-17-06
Siemens Selects Iowa Site for Its First Wind Turbine Blade Manufacturing Facility in the U.S.; Will Help Meet Strong U.S. Demand for Clean, Renewable Energy
ORLANDO, Fla. & FORT MADISON, Iowa--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 17, 2006--Siemens Power Generation announced today that it has executed a purchase agreement for a U.S. wind turbine blade manufacturing site located in Fort Madison, Iowa. The manufacturing facility will be estab...
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08-16-06
Bayer Foundation Awards $150,000 Grant to Nationally Recognized Bay Area Biotechnology School-To-Career Program
BERKELEY, Calif.- The Bayer Foundation tonight awarded Biotech Partners (formerly Berkeley Biotechnology Education, Inc. or BBEI) a $150,000 grant, further demonstrating the Foundation's commitment to education and workforce development and to ensure today's students are wel...
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07-21-06
Bayer to Host Stem Education Diversity Forum in Fall
PITTSBURGH - Bayer Corporation announced today it will host a one-day science, technology, engineering and math, or STEM, Education Diversity Forum for U.S. STEM companies this fall as a public service in response to the results of an opinion research survey Bayer commission...
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07-05-06
Join Abbott and Harvard University's Jane Nelson for an Online Discussion About Abbott's Global Citizenship Efforts and Impact on the Global Community
WHAT: Abbott will host a webcast discussion about its approach to global citizenship in key areas such as access to medicines, environmental health and safety, diversity, ethics and compliance, and research and development. Learn, ask, and assess Abbott's efforts ba...
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06-16-06
Abbott Helps Children With Diabetes by Sending Them to Camp This Summer
ALAMEDA, Calif.- To help children and their families learn to better manage diabetes, Abbott Diabetes Care, a division of Abbott, is sending 135 children who are newly diagnosed with diabetes to camp this summer as part of its "Send a Kid to Camp" program. This year marks t...
