Harris Corporation Receives 2008 Most Valuable Pollution Prevention Award
October 22 2008 - 1:00PM
PR Newswire (US)
Major Reduction in Manufacturing Waste and Water Usage at Quincy
Transmitter Manufacturing Plant Establishes Harris as an
Environmental Leader QUINCY, Ill., Oct. 22 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/
-- Harris Corporation (NYSE: HRS), an international communications
and information technology company, announced that its Quincy,
Illinois, manufacturing facility has received a 2008 Most Valuable
Pollution Prevention (MVP2) award for its longstanding efforts in
pollution prevention and dedication to protecting people, property
and the environment. Harris was one of five companies or
organizations nationwide to receive this year's award, presented by
the National Pollution Prevention Roundtable (NPPR) in Washington,
D.C. Andy Edgar, senior manager of facilities and environmental
compliance, and Phil Timmons, director of Quincy operations,
accepted the award on behalf of Harris Broadcast Communications.
The NPPR honored Harris Broadcast's radio and television broadcast
transmitter manufacturing facility in Quincy for its major
reductions in waste, energy consumption and water usage. Harris
received the MVP2 Award based on several employee-empowered
pollution prevention projects, including a closed-loop water
cooling system that has reduced water usage in its product testing
process by nearly 21.6 million gallons per year. The company also
implemented several toxicity reduction projects to eliminate toxic
heavy metals and raw material impurities from the manufacturing
processes. The result is a 30-to-35 cubic yard reduction in waste
that equates to a 75 percent decrease in hazardous waste volumes
from its wastewater pretreatment operation, and a 50 percent
pretreatment chemical usage reduction. "Harris has clearly
demonstrated that pollution prevention is beneficial to both the
environment and the economy," said Jeffrey Burke, executive
director of NPPR. "Harris is being recognized for its leadership
and commitment to promoting a sustainable future." Harris has a
longstanding commitment to pollution prevention and protecting the
environment. For example, the company's Quincy operation has been a
four-time recipient of the Illinois Governor's Pollution Prevention
Award and has received a Community Green Award for its efforts in
recycling and waste volume reductions. The Quincy operation also
has received an Industrial Achievement Award form the Illinois
Association of Water Pollution Control Operators. The
long-standing, well-established pollution prevention programs are
based on a commitment that reaches from upper management across the
entire spectrum of employees. Harris employees around the world are
actively engaged in sustainability issues such as product
take-back, recycling, resource conservation and material
substitution. In 2007, Harris surpassed 1 million pounds of waste
diverted from the world's landfills. In addition, the effective use
of reclaimed ground water or surface water for landscape irrigation
at the company's Florida facilities reduced the need for potable
and ground water by more than 20.6 million gallons in 2007. "Harris
is committed to ensuring that it remains a responsible corporate
citizen of the communities we live in, and we are spearheading
these efforts through employee-driven campaigns," said Tim
Thorsteinson, president of Harris Broadcast Communications. "We
strive to be viewed as a company that is proactive in the community
and are committed to raising environmental awareness. This is
achieved by reducing pollution generated from our facilities and
minimizing our impact on the environment." Harris Broadcast
Communications offers products, systems and services that provide
interoperable workflow solutions that span the entire media
delivery chain. The Harris ONE(TM) solution brings together highly
integrated and cost-effective products that are ideal for emerging
media business models and for customers upgrading media operations
to digital and high-definition services. About Harris Corporation
Harris is an international communications and information
technology company serving government and commercial markets in
more than 150 countries. Headquartered in Melbourne, Florida, the
company has annual revenue of $5.3 billion and 16,000 employees -
including nearly 7,000 engineers and scientists. Harris is
dedicated to developing best-in-class assured communications(R)
products, systems, and services. Additional information about
Harris Corporation is available at http://www.harris.com/.
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