Across the globe, enterprises are awakening to the ways that their operations impact the environment in various areas over time. This awareness is especially heightened in the IT sector, as companies investigate and deploy initiatives that promote energy efficiency and sustainable business practices.
 
Simply put, a “green” initiative is a policy or process designed to sustain natural capital rather than deplete it.  This can also be expressed as living off profits rather than living off capital.  These initiatives reduce consumption of non-renewable resources, minimize pollution and waste, and create healthy, productive environments. Green initiatives also are fast becoming a minimum requirement for doing business with global enterprise customers along the entire supply chain.

Panduit embraces green thinking as both a value and a responsible business practice. Green initiatives permeate every aspect of our business, from using recycled, locally purchased materials whenever practical to developing product and solution offerings that enable energy efficiency and promote environmentally sustainable business strategies. 

Our company-wide commitment has resulted in the long-standing deployment of programs throughout our global facilities that use energy efficiently, reduce energy consumption, and minimize our ecological footprint.
Knowing that we are respecting communities around the world is the greatest return on green investment.

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Panduit recently earned the prestigious Oracle 2009 “Enable the Eco-Enterprise” Award, which recognizes Panduit’s ongoing implementation of innovative, sustainable business practices that leverage Oracle solutions.  Other highlights include:

Panduit’s Environmental Policy (English and Spanish)

Panduit’s 2008/9 Corporate Environmental Objectives, backed by a mature and effective Environmental Management System (EMS) that includes planning, training, measurement, reporting and review.

Since 1999 Panduit has been monitoring and internally reporting greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions at all U.S. facilities.

Since 2008 Panduit has been voluntarily reporting GHG emissions to the Illinois EPA and U.S. EPA, and has reduced absolute GHG by 25% against our baseline year of 2000.

Our new World Headquarters building is expected to achieve LEED NC 2.2 Gold certification, and will function as an active “green” proof of concept that integrates and aligns all critical building systems under a single, unified, intelligent infrastructure to maximize sustainability, global collaboration and innovation. For this project our global partner ecosystem including Cisco, EMC, Emerson, IBM, Lutron, and Rockwell helped ensure integration across a range of technologies and building systems.

Panduit recently achieved certification as having met Canon's Green Procurement Standards, after Canon’s review of Panduit’s design for environment and manufacturing environmental controls. This designation enables Canon to deploy all Panduit products across all global Canon facilities.

Panduit Singapore PTE, Ltd. achieved certification as a member of the Sony Green Partner Program, after completing rigorous audit procedures by Sony. By meeting Green Partner standards, Panduit (and its distributors) are pre-approved to supply products manufactured in our Singapore facility to Sony and its global subcontractors.

PANDUIT is committed to being a good corporate neighbor by engaging in global long-term sustainability initiatives that protect, replenish, and restore the communities in which we live and operate. Our mission is to design facilities and products for the present generation without compromising the ability of the future generations to meet their needs.

From a manufacturing perspective, orienting products to be green means addressing the environmental impact of manufacturing, packing, and shipping processes. Several green initiatives guide our manufacturing strategies, including RoHS, WEEE, and ISO 14001.

From a product perspective, energy conservation and efficiency in the data center is the primary green concern with power and cooling issues continuously top-of-mind. PANDUIT high-density, flexible physical layer solutions maximize space utilization and optimize energy use.

Sustainability boils down to business strategy with a long view, and green process initiatives align with and support our goal of being the world’s lowest cost, highest quality manufacturer of networking and electrical solutions.

The goals of green facilities planning are to realize energy savings, reduce construction pollution, and provide a healthy workplace. The PANDUIT Connected Building Solution takes all of these goals into account to achieve operational efficiencies.

PANDUIT training programs reinforce environmentally friendly business practices.

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