Manufacturing

An international investment advisory firm has ranked Bristol-Myers Squibb Company (NYSE:BMY) number one among the nation's top 23 pharmaceutical companies for environmental performance. Innovest Strategic Value Advisors gave Bristol-Myers Squibb its top rating (AAA) based on...

Working with 26 supplier companies, DaimlerChrysler engineers are developing new concepts and manufacturing methods to increase the amount of recycled materials in the company's vehicles. Under the CARE Car project, the group has now developed two vehicles that optimize the ...

Only a few days after the African Business Forum 2000 in Berlin, DaimlerChrysler is increasing the aid the company has designated for Mozambique. At the forum, Chairman Jürgen E. Schrempp told Mozambique's president, Joaquim Chissano, that the company intended to further he...

Bristol-Myers Squibb Company (NYSE: BMY) announced today that it is participating in a public/private effort with United Nations organizations and four other pharmaceutical companies to explore ways to accelerate and improve the provision of HIV/AIDS-related care and treatme...

Applied Materials, Inc. renewed its commitment to supporting information technology in the People's Republic of China by pledging an additional US $1 million to the Applied Materials Shanghai Research and Development Fund. A joint effort between the Company and the Science a...

The Council on Economic Priorities (CEP), the leading research organization on corporate social responsibility for over 30 years, will recognize the winners of the 14th Annual Corporate Conscience Awards (CCA) at a ceremony at The New York Marriott Marquis, on June 15, 2000....

Smithfield Foods, Inc. announced today that it has become the first in its industry to achieve ISO 14001 certification for all its U.S. hog production and processing facilities.

"For years Smithfield has been recognized as the leader in the meat ...

Whirlpool Corporation (NYSE:WHR) at a meeting held with the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality (MDEQ) in Lansing on April 24, celebrated the achievement of the US Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) Corrective Actio...

In a broad measure designed to enhance the quality of education at all levels, QUALCOMM Incorporated (Nasdaq: QCOM) today announced a $25 million commitment for educational programs that will help with efforts nationwide to bridge the "Digital Divide." The Company has design...

DaimlerChrysler's manufacturing facility in Toluca, Mexico, home of the new Chrysler PT Cruiser, will achieve another milestone later this year with the opening of a state-of-the-art wastewater recycling facility.

The recycling facility, ...