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Environmentally Friendly Initiatives to Shrink Manufacturing Costs

November 15, 2012

DATE: Tuesday, November 20, 2012

TIME: 9:15 a.m. EST

Join us for a master class in effective design, implementation and operation of environment-friendly initiatives in a meaningful and cost-effective way.

This live and interactive session will show you how to combine sustainability excellence and cost reduction targets to better focus your environmental performance initiatives.

What will you learn?

Activate environmental performance while reducing costs
Maximise efficiencies with waste, treatment and recovery initiatives
Sustain seamless and comparable quality of service in multiple locations
Set sustainability excellence and cost reduction targets (case study examples)

Featuring case study examples... including Renault's Morrocco Greenfield award winning plant.

Speaker:
Yves Thelier, Deputy VP Sales, Veolia Environnement Industries, Veolia Environnement

Full Agenda: http://bit.ly/PTwpoY

Registration: http://bit.ly/SmONmV

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