(Boeing: Salt Lake City) -- The Boeing Co. fabrication manufacturing facility in Salt Lake City, has been awarded an ISO 14001 environmental management system certification from Det Norske Veritas, an accredited certification body of quality, environmental, and safety management systems. ISO 14001 confirms Boeing's Salt Lake City facility has a certified system in place to monitor, manage, and continuously improve its environmental management system.

Boeing’s Salt Lake City facility, which comprises a 267,000 square-foot site on 18 acres, is a provider of complex machined parts. The site has a longstanding environmental management system and works with the local community to protect and improve the quality of the environment around the facility.

The system includes plantwide efforts to reduce energy use, reduce the amount of material sent to landfills by improving the cardboard recycling program, and implementing a program for plastics by purchasing a baler to compact the materials for recycling. In addition, the Salt Lake City facility is reducing air emissions and improving operational controls to eliminate spills into soil and water.

“We see this certification as an important milestone in our efforts to reduce environmental impacts and preserve precious resources,” says David Carbon, director of Boeing Salt Lake City. “Working together, we will continue to make progress toward our goal, which ultimately will make this a much more environmentally efficient workplace for all of our employees and the surrounding community.”

For more information, visit www.boeing.com/news/releases/2008/q3/080730a_nr.html.

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