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In winning four Silver Awards, Synthetech is receiving more awards thanany other facility. "Synthetech should be commended for their work," said JoeAcker, SOCMA president. "Our panel of judges found them to be an impressiveexample for the rest of the industry. Synthetech shows they are committed toperformance excellence and to improving the quality of life in theircommunity. We hope that other companies will see the progress Synthetech hasmade and will use them as an example for their own programs. We applaudSynthetech and hope they continue these efforts."
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"Our commitment to environmental, health, safety, and security is drivenby our culture and these SOCMA awards provide visibility for actions which arestandard procedure at Synthetech every day," said Synthetech President andCOO, Dr. Greg Hahn. "We are especially proud of the on-going hard work by ouremployees to ensure a safe and secure environment for our facilities andcommunity."
SOCMA, the leading international trade association representing the customand specialty chemical industry, recognized Synthetech at its Annual Dinnerduring a special awards ceremony on December 10th in New York City.
SOCMA members manufacture thousands of products annually. Frompharmaceuticals to cosmetics, soaps to plastics, and all kinds of industrialand construction products, SOCMA members produce the building blocks formaterials that save lives, ensure our food supply is safe and abundant, andenable the manufacture of literally thousands of other products. VisitSOCMA's online press room at http://www.socma.com.
ChemStewards(R) is SOCMA's flagship environmental, health, safety andsecurity (EHS&S) continuous performance improvement program. ChemStewards wascreated from industry's commitment to reducing the environmental footprintleft by member facilities. Industry created ChemStewards to meet the uniqueneeds of the batch, custom, and specialty chemical industry. As a mandatoryrequirement for SOCMA members engaged in the manufacturing or handling ofsynthetic and organic chemicals, ChemStewards is helping participants reachfor superior EHS&S performance through the program's Core Principles. Tolearn more visit http://www.chemstewards.com.
Synthetech, Inc. is a fine chemicals company specializing in organicsynthesis, biocatalysis and chiral technologies. Synthetech develops andmanufactures amino acid derivatives, specialty amino acids, peptide fragments,proprietary custom chiral intermediates and specialty resins, primarily forthe pharmaceutical industry. Synthetech's products support the development andmanufacture of therapeutic peptides and peptidomimetic small molecule drugs atevery stage of a customer's clinical development pipeline, and are used indrugs for the treatment of AIDS, cancer, cardiovascular and other diseases.As part of the Awards process, Synthetech outlined its efforts to: -- Reduce waste; -- Use resources as efficiently as possible; -- Engage stakeholders and their community continually and effectively; -- Promote the concept of product stewardship throughout a product's lifecycle. Product stewardship is the responsible management of EHS&S issues such as safe transport, storage, use and disposal.
SOURCE Synthetech, Inc.
