Manufacturing
News and content about corporate responsibility innovations in the manufacturing industry.
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10-21-09
Winners Announced in 2009 Collegiate Inventors Competition(R)
A faster tool for cell programming and a new way of allowing quadriplegics to perform simple tasks have won grand prizes of the 2009 Collegiate Inventors Competition, a program of the National Inventors Hall of Fame sponsored by the Abbott Fund, the non-profit foundation of ...
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10-20-09
CARE President to Speak at Inaugural Event of New Leadership Series on Women and Global Development
CARE is pleased to announce that Dr. Helene Gayle, CARE President and CEO, is the keynote speaker at the inaugural event of the new Chicago Council on Global Affair's leadership series "The Women and Global Development Forum."
The forum was deve...
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10-19-09
Procter & Gamble Releases 11TH Annual Sustainability Report
The Procter & Gamble Company (NYSE:PG) today released its 2009 Sustainability Report titled "Designed to Matter." The report outlines P&G's progress in improving the environmental profile of products and operations and delivery of several new, sustainable product inn...
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10-15-09
Albemarle's Innovative AlkyClean(TM) Technology Receives Prestigious 'Affordable Green Chemistry' Award From American Chemical Society
Albemarle Corporation, (NYSE: ALB) www.albemarle.com, a global leader in developing innovative specialty chemicals, catalysts and sustainable clean energy solutions, along with its consortium partners Lummus Technology a...
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10-15-09
Pittsburgh Selected North American Host City for World Environment Day 2010
The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) has named Pittsburgh the host city for World Environment Day (WED) 2010 in North America. The theme is "Biodiversity: Connecting with Nature."
Local government officials, businesses, organization...
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10-08-09
Pfizer (NYSE:PFE) publishes 2009 Corporate Responsibility Report - Doing the Right Things
Pfizer has released its 2009 Corporate Responsibility report, Doing the Right Things.
In a time of historic and unprecedented economic challenges, Pfizer is reaffirming its commitment to respond to the needs of society and contribute to health around the world through responsi...
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10-06-09
PepsiCo Wins U.S. EPA SmartWay Environmental Excellence Award
PepsiCo (NYSE: PEP), one of the world's largest food and beverage companies, received an Environmental Excellence Award from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency SmartWay(SM) Transport Partnership for its leadership in conserving energy and lowering greenhouse gas emissi...
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10-01-09
Abbott Wins Healthcare Businesswomen’s Association ACE Award for Corporate Programs Advancing Women’s Careers
The Healthcare Businesswomen's Association (HBA) has named Abbott's Women Leaders in Action (WLA) employee network as the winner of the 2009 HBA ACE Award. HBA created the award to recognize corporations' efforts to strengthen the "Advancement, Commitment and Engagement" of ...
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09-30-09
Abbott Cuts Use of Oil and Coal by 35 Percent
Abbott announced today that it has significantly reduced its use of both fossil fuels and electricity as part of a multi-faceted, company-wide effort to safeguard the environment and reduce energy costs across all of its global health care businesses.
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09-30-09
Merck & CO., Inc. Publishes 2008 Global Corporate Responsibility Report
Today Merck launched its 2008 global corporate responsibility (CR) report in which it emphasized that the fundamentals of good corporate governance and accountability, ethical business practices, and transparency have never been more important.
