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Thomas Swan - Responsible Care
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RESPONSIBLE CARE
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As a company that is intimately involved in the handling,
production, shipment and disposal of chemicals, we take considerable
care to ensure that our activities are managed and monitored in a
responsible way. Environmental responsibility has been a recurrent
theme throughout our history – the business was founded in 1926 by
recycling industrial waste (slag from the local steel industry).
More recently the core products from the 1970’s, such as
CASAMID curing agents for coatings, used water-based
technology to replace more polluting solvents. Our polyurethane
materials are similar, some using water instead of solvents. Pepton,
which is a key rubber additive manufactured at Consett, is a major
energy saver for the rubber industry, allowing rubber to be
processed much more efficiently.
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We have established ourselves as UK leader in the application of environmental management systems and were one of the first recipients of the International Standards ISO 14001 award for environmental management.
Thomas Swan is also a long standing signatory of the
Chemical Industries Association’s Responsible Care programme and was the first company in the world to gain external verification of its Responsible Care management system.
Logo supplied by the CIA (Chemical Industries Association)
http://www.cia.org.uk/newsite/index.asp
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