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Environment

Environmental, health and safety concerns are intrinsic to our operations and our value propositions. Our objective is that we will do business without harming people or the environment. We monitor our environmental performance carefully and we believe it is necessary to set specific goals and constantly measure progress toward these goals. We conduct the annual Environmental Performance Questionnaire (EPQ) within our manufacturing operations to measure environmental performance in eleven key areas.

In a survey published in November 2006 by Trucost on behalf of the UK Government’s Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA), Invensys was recognised as one of only five UK companies that reported on all environmental performance metrics in quantitative terms. Our environmental Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) include:

total energy use (KWh)
total CO2 emissions (kg);
total water consumption (m3);
total non-hazardous wastes (kg); and
total hazardous wastes (kg).

The summary table below summarizes our recent KPI data: (Click chart to enlarge)

In 2008, we established a 5% reduction target for each of these five KPIs for all manufacturing locations over the prior year’s results.

Also in 2008, we continued our efforts to eliminate the use of chlorinated solvents in our operations. During the past year, nine locations eliminated the use of these solvents or found suitable substitute chemicals. The two remaining locations that use chlorinated solvents have well-developed elimination plans and are scheduled to completely eliminate solvent use in 2008.