Environmental Health and Safety Policy

Environmental, Health and Safety Policy

Tosoh Quartz is committed to protect the health and safety of our employees and community. We will comply with all applicable regulatory EHS requirements and embrace continuous improvement. We will strive to have an incident and injury free workplace, conserve natural resources and reduce waste.

Environmental Management in The Worldwide Quartz Network

Tosoh Corporation, based in Japan, includes 132 companies. We are proud to represent Tosoh Corporation in Portland, Oregon, and model the best of both local and international environmental standards. Environmental programs and performance at Tosoh Corporation can be found at http://www.tosoh.com/Environment/.

Environmental Management System

The Tosoh Quartz environmental management system (EMS) is an active process and an integral part of our operations. Modeled after the ISO 14001 standard, our EMS drives continuous improvement through four key strategies:

Environmental performance metrics
Preventative and corrective action
Internal audit
Management review

Results

Tosoh Quartz in Portland, Oregon complies with all local and national environmental regulations, and operates with a relatively small environmental “footprint.”

We are not a significant source of carbon dioxide (CO2) or ozone-depleting compounds (ODC) due to glass blowing with clean-burning hydrogen and oxygen.
We operate below thresholds for United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Toxic Release Inventory (TRI) reporting and below thresholds for an Oregon Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) air contaminant discharge permit.
We are an Oregon DEQ conditionally exempt hazardous waste generator (i.e., less than 100 pounds generated in 2010).
We operate a clean facility with a no-exposure certification for industrial stormwater.

Environmental performance goes beyond regulatory compliance, however, and Tosoh Quartz has achieved results in areas such as energy conservation and resource reduction:

In 2007 we installed energy-efficient lighting, reducing electrical usage approximately 315,000 kWh per year.
In 2009 we improved packaging efficiency, reducing cardboard usage for a key product line by approximately 60%.
In 2010 we recycled 9,500 pounds of quartz.

Goals

Environmental goals for Tosoh Quartz include:

Facility energy efficiencies for 2011, reducing total energy consumption by 3% per year.
Participation in Portland General Electric’s wind energy at 20,800 kWh per month in 2011, with expected offsets in CO2 by 225,000 pounds per year.

Tosoh Quartz remains committed to continuous improvement, and we will continue to move forward with our environmental management system, partnering with customers, peers, and suppliers, and proudly representing Tosoh Corporation in the local and international community.

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