Manufacturing
News and content about corporate responsibility innovations in the manufacturing industry.
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03-22-10
What's Your Climate Action? Enter the Chicago Climate Action Plan Earth Day Video Competition Now thru April 12
The Chicago Climate Action Plan (CCAP) team has launched an innovative video contest aimed at encouraging middle, high school, and college students in the City of Chicago to submit creative, 90 second videos that illustrate how they take part in one or more of the Plan's 35 ...
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03-22-10
Philips Electronics (AMS:PHIL) publishes Annual Report 2009
Philips delivers strong sustainability performance in 2009
Philips generated 31% of total sales from Green Products in 2009, achieving its sales target three years ahead of schedule. The company expects to reach the 50% mark by 2015. The company will also meet its cumulative EUR ...
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03-22-10
U.S. Women and Minority Scientists Discouraged from Pursuing STEM Careers, National Survey Shows
Significant numbers of today's women and underrepresented minority chemists and chemical engineers (40 percent) say they were discouraged from pursuing a STEM career (science, technology, engineering or mathematics) at some point in their lives, according to a new Bayer Corp...
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03-19-10
The Abbott Fund, Boston University School of Medicine and Leading Health Institutions in Vietnam Inaugurate the Abbott Fund Institute of Nutrition Science at Bach Mai Hospital
The Abbott Fund, the philanthropic arm of the global health care company Abbott, and the Global Health Primary Care Initiative (GHPCI) at the Boston University School of Medicine joined Bach Mai Hospital, the National Institute of Nutrition (NIN) and Hanoi Medical University...
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03-19-10
PepsiCo Marks World Water Day 2010 with Global Water Goals
/PRNewswire-FirstCall/ - PepsiCo (NYSE: PEP) announced today global goals to provide access to safe water to three million people in developing countries by 2015 and to continuously strive for positive water balance in company operations in water-distressed areas.
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03-18-10
PepsiCo Launches Groundbreaking Pilot Program to Reduce Carbon Footprint of Tropicana
/PRNewswire/ - One year after PepsiCo (NYSE: PEP) and the Carbon Trust launched an innovative partnership that began with certifying the carbon footprint of Tropicana Pure Premium® orange juice, Tropicana is announcing a groundbreaking pilot program that could drastically re...
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03-15-10
Albemarle Promotes Luke Kissam to President
/PRNewswire-FirstCall/ - Albemarle Corporation (NYSE: ALB), a leading provider of innovative and sustainable specialty chemical solutions, announced today that Luke Kissam has been elected President of the company. In this role, Mr. Kissam will oversee all aspects of the com...
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03-15-10
Albemarle Appoints Dr. Ronald C. Zumstein as Vice President of Manufacturing
/PRNewswire-FirstCall/ - Albemarle Corporation (NYSE: ALB), a leading provider of innovative and sustainable specialty chemical solutions, has appointed Dr. Ronald C. Zumstein as Vice President of Manufacturing, effective immediately. In this role, Dr. Zumstein will manage a...
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03-15-10
P&G Launches Initiative to Make Conservation of Natural Resources More User Friendly
The Procter & Gamble Company (NYSE:PG) today announced the U.S. expansion of Future Friendly, an environmental responsibility and consumer education platform it first introduced at the 2009 Clinton Global Initiative. The multi-brand initiative brings together the power o...
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03-11-10
Albemarle Selected as One of Corporate Responsibility Magazine's '100 Best Corporate Citizens for 2010'
/PRNewswire-FirstCall/ - Albemarle Corporation (NYSE: ALB) a leading provider of innovative and sustainable specialty chemical solutions has been selected as one of Corporate Responsibility Magazine's
