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Air Products executive honoured with Akira Inoue Award |
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Dec 12, 2005 at 07:43 PM |
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Air Products vice president and general manager of its
Electronics Division, Jerry Ermentrout has been honored with the 2005 Akira
Inoue Award from SEMI. The Akira Inoue Award, presented at SEMICON Japan in
December, recognizes outstanding achievement in environmental, health and
safety (EH&S) performance in the semiconductor industry.
"Under Jerry Ermentrout's leadership, Air Products'
Electronics Division has achieved industry-leading status in environmental,
health and safety performance while growing roughly three times in size," said
Stanley Myers, president and CEO of SEMI.
"Through his visionary business model, Jerry has established himself as
a capable, responsible steward of the environment and demonstrated that
companies can achieve outstanding financial performance while simultaneously
protecting the health and safety of employees, customers and neighbours."
Air Products' achievements cited by the Akira Inoue Award
committee in the selection of Ermentrout include: Attainment of the lowest US OSHA recordable injury rate among
member companies of the American Chemistry Council from 2000 to 2003 - at
roughly half of the industry average, Implementation of a division-wide Basic
Safety Process (BSP) which identifies hazardous situations to prevent
accidents, Provision of turnkey operation of hazardous materials handling at
customer sites, minimizing the potential for customers to come into contact
with potentially harmful substances resulting in an average 93 percent
reduction in incidents per container change since 1998.
Ermentrou also oversaw an annual reduction of 8.2 million
pounds of hazardous wastes and an additional 20 million pounds of raw material
and process gases at the world's largest specialty gas manufacturing facility.
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