Alcoa Announces Recipients of 2005 EHS Achievement Awards.PITTSBURGH -- Alcoa (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :AA) today announced the 13 recipients of its 2005 Environment, Health, and Safety (EHS EHS Environmental Health and Safety EHS Early Head Start (pre-school program) EHS Extremely Hazardous Substance (EPA) EHS Environmental Health Services EHS Exchange Hosted Services ) Achievement Awards. These awards recognize outstanding effort in the environmental, health, and safety performance of Alcoa businesses worldwide. They also help accelerate the pursuit of sustainability by encouraging the transfer of knowledge between Alcoa locations and between Alcoa and key communities, customers, and stakeholders Stakeholders All parties that have an interest, financial or otherwise, in a firm-stockholders, creditors, bondholders, employees, customers, management, the community, and the government. . "First-rate environment, health, and safety performance helps distinguish Alcoa as a company with a strong commitment to sustainability and social responsibility," said Jake Siewert, vice president for EHS, Global Communications, and Public Strategy. "These awards recognize the work of our employees in achieving higher standards in environment, health, and safety." An international panel of external experts selected the following recipients of 2005 EHS Achievement Awards: Development and Commercialization of the HAPs Compliant ALC-132 ECOAT Coating Warrick (Indiana) Operations--USA Development and Deployment of a Natural Media Filtration Process for Sustainable Water Treatment for PCB Removal Lafayette, (Indiana) Works --USA Opacity/Product Cost Project Davenport (Iowa) Works--USA Development and Deployment of Cutting Edge Water Treatment Technologies Pocos de Caldas--Brazil Zero Wastewater Discharge Facility Saint-Cosme-en-Vairais--France Massena Waste Reduction Massena (N.Y.) Operations--USA An Innovative EHS Strategy within Alumar Has Become a Benchmark for Major Construction Projects Alumar--Brazil Juruti: A Sustainable Mining Project in the Amazon Region Global Primary Products/Latin America Primary--Brazil AFL Itajuba Demonstrates Citizenship through EHS Capacity Building AFL do Brasil--Brazil Powerhouse Drum Ergonomics Kwinana Alumina Refinery--Australia Calciner 3 Emission Reduction Project Wagerup Alumina Refinery--Australia Community Engagement in Developing Long-Term Residue Management Strategies Western Australia Operations Shaping the EHS Culture in Romania Nadab and Caransebes--Romania For more information on Alcoa's commitment to eliminate waste and injuries, visit the Environment section at www.alcoa.com. About Alcoa Alcoa is the world's leading producer and manager of primary aluminum, fabricated fab·ri·cate tr.v. fab·ri·cat·ed, fab·ri·cat·ing, fab·ri·cates 1. To make; create. 2. To construct by combining or assembling diverse, typically standardized parts: aluminum and alumina alumina (əl  `mĭnə) or aluminum oxide, Al2O3, chemical compound with m.p. about 2,000°C; and sp. gr. about 4.0. facilities, and is active in
all major aspects of the industry. Alcoa serves the aerospace,
automotive, packaging, building and construction, commercial
transportation and industrial markets, bringing design, engineering,
production and other capabilities of Alcoa's businesses to
customers. In addition to aluminum products and components, Alcoa also
markets consumer brands including Reynolds Wrap(R) foils and plastic
wraps, Alcoa(R) wheels, and Baco(R) household wraps. Among its other
businesses are vinyl siding Wikipedia is not the place for advertisement or self-advertising. Vinyl siding, first introduced to the exterior cladding market in the late 1950s, is an alternative to aluminum siding, fiber cement siding, and timber siding. , closures, fastening systems, precision
castings, and electrical distribution systems for cars and trucks. The
company has 131,000 employees in 43 countries and has been a member of
the Dow Jones Industrial Average Dow Jones Industrial AverageThe best known U.S. index of stocks. A price-weighted average of 30 actively traded blue-chip stocks, primarily industrials including stocks that trade on the New York Stock Exchange. for 45 years and the Dow Jones Dow Jones the best known of several U.S. indexes of movements in price on Wall Street. [Am. Hist.: Payton, 202] See : Finance Sustainability Indexes since 2001. More information can be found at www.alcoa.com Note to Editors: There should be an accent mark Noun 1. accent mark - a diacritical mark used to indicate stress or placed above a vowel to indicate a special pronunciation accent language, linguistic communication - a systematic means of communicating by the use of sounds or conventional symbols; "he over the "a" in "Itajuba" in this release. |
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