At Kaydon, we continue to take proactive steps to evaluate and reduce the impact of all our products on the environment. Using independent third-party reviews of our operations, we've developed key environmental performance metrics in response to our customers' needs.

Our annual Environmental Health & Safety Performance Report helps our customers pursue environmental improvements in their product and supply chains.

We're proud of the environmental improvements we've made, including:

• Substantially reducing water usage, even as production has trended up.
• Decreasing hazardous waste generation rates, even as production has increased. The use of solvents known or suspected to be carcinogenic is prohibited in our facilities.
• Increasing the amount of coolant we recycle and improving our procedures for reducing waste and capturing materials for beneficial reuse.
• Recovering and recycling as much scrap metal as possible (recently, we recycled almost 3 million pounds).