Our commitment to growing green arose from our discovery of serious environmental problems at several of our facilities. That discovery prompted a strategic review of our practices and led to three important outcomes:


• We exited the copper smelting business.
• We promised to address the environmental issues associated with copper smelting candidly and aggressively.
• We promised to commit our company to environmental sustainability by growing green.


So began a major restructuring of our business that included selling or closing smelting operations and several other businesses that were not core to making wire and cable products. We changed the way we communicate with the public, learning to voluntarily tell our neighbors about our environmental problems. We committed to taking responsibility for our mistakes, to fixing the problems we had caused and to making sure they do not happen again.

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Learning From our Mistakes

Our commitment to growing green arose from our discovery of serious environmental problems at several of our facilities. That discovery prompted a strategic review of our practices and led to three important outcomes:


• We exited the copper smelting business.
• We promised to address the environmental issues associated with copper smelting candidly and aggressively.
• We promised to commit our company to environmental sustainability by growing green.


So began a major restructuring of our business that included selling or closing smelting operations and several other businesses that were not core to making wire and cable products. We changed the way we communicate with the public, learning to voluntarily tell our neighbors about our environmental problems. We committed to taking responsibility for our mistakes, to fixing the problems we had caused and to making sure they do not happen again.