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New standard sends a message: ISO 14000 series creates formal environmental management plan.
Crain's Cleveland Business, May, 1997 by Schrimpf, Natalie
Rockwell Automation's electronics manufacturing facility in Twinsburg is on the vanguard of a new, voluntary environmental standard. The local operation of Milwaukee-based Rockwell Automation last October became one of the nation's first registrants of the ISO 14001 "environmental management systems" standard.
Similar to its cousin, the ISO 9000 family designating quality standards met by manufacturing operations, the new ISO 14000 series - ISO 14001 is the first standard - provides companies with a framework for controlling the impact they have on the environment by creating a formal environmental management system. Roger Hartel, vice president of Rockwell Automation's Quality Assurance, Control and Information Group in Twinsburg, said the certification sends a...
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