Awards and Recognition for Sustainability
The following awards are representative of those received in 2004 in recognition of Alcan’s sustainability commitment.
Corporate Knights
Corporate Knights is the world’s first mass market magazine with an explicit focus on corporate social responsibility. Its aim is to enhance transparency in ways that identify those companies that are leading – or lagging – in the charge to a better world. Corporate Knights ranks companies annually on their corporate social responsibility performance based on input from a number of leading socially responsible investment research firms. Corporate Knights ranked Alcan as third out of Canada’s Best 50 Corporate Citizens and awarded Alcan the recognition of Best International Corporate Citizen in 2004.
Innovative Environmental Program Award
This award is presented every year to a company committed to protecting the environment and contributing to solutions that promote the disposal of plastics in the waste stream. Alcan Composites USA Inc. received the 2004 Innovative Environmental Program Award from the International Association of Plastics Distributors (IAPD) in recognition of its outstanding corporate recycling practices. IAPD officials highlighted the excellent job Alcan Composites is doing at integrating EHS into its daily business. Recycling programs at the company’s Benton, Kentucky facility incorporate plastics, aluminum, wood pallets, oils and solvents. Employees also recycle aluminum consumer products and donate the proceeds to Habitat for Humanity.
Deafness Research Foundation
Corporate Leadership Award
Alcan has received the 2005 Corporate Leadership Award from the Deafness Research Foundation. This is an international recognition of Alcan’s global approach to noise abatement and for the quality of its Hearing Conservation Program.
GLOBE Awards for Environmental Excellence
In May 2005, Alcan was awarded a GLOBE Award for Environmental Excellence under the Corporate Competitiveness Category. The GLOBE Awards, considered the most recognized and respected Canadian awards of their kind, are presented to extraordinary companies and industry groups that have embraced sustainable business strategies and turned them into competitive advantages in the marketplace. Alcan was recognized for its proven record of environmental stewardship that has materially contributed to economic competitiveness through a commitment to environmental excellence.