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Growing Green

Our primary mission is an ambitious one. We seek to shrink our environmental footprint while we expand our business. Southwire has a set of aggressive goals to guide us as we work to develop products and processes that are efficient and environmentally friendly.

Ensuring our operations are as efficient as possible is only part of the job. Our research and development team seeks to make our products environmentally friendly as well. That means reducing the hazardous component of our products, using safer inks and materials, eliminating wooden reels in some cases and finding ways to improve the efficiency of our products.

Reduce, reuse and recycle. Those three words are crucial to a sustainable future for our company. We are working to reduce our use of precious resources, including cutting our water use, reusing materials, reducing scrap, converting our corporate fleet to hybrid cars and other means. We have a recycling program in our corporate offices, warehouses, and manufacturing facilities. At the same time, we are taking steps to eliminate waste entirely - from our offices and manufacturing processes.

Our Goals	2010 Status
Achieve zero-landfill status by 2017:	Reduced landfill waste 71% from 2007 baseline
Eliminate lead additives from all Southwire products by 2010:	98% complete
Reduce carbon footprint by 10% by 2010:	Carbon footprint reduced 13% from 2007 baseline*
Reduce water use by 15% by 2010:	Water use reduced 36% from 2007 baseline*
Improve contract carrier freight fuel mileage by 10% by 2010:	Fuel mileage improved 10.6% from 2007 baseline
Improve company fleet mileage by 25% by 2010:	Mileage improved 25% over 2005 baseline
Establish wildlife sanctuary at Carrollton headquarters by 2010:	This goal is no longer being pursued
Obtain regulatory approvals for site remediation at legacy locations:	Remediation work substantially completed at four sites that await agency approvals, remediation criteria are being negotiated with agency at one remaining site