The Timken Company Receives Ohio Governor's Award for Outstanding Achievement in Pollution Prevention
17 December 1997
The Timken Company Receives Ohio Governor's Award for Outstanding Achievement in Pollution Prevention
CANTON, Ohio, Dec. 17 -- The Timken Company is
one of seven companies that today received Ohio Governor George V. Voinovich's
annual award for Outstanding Achievement in pollution prevention. The award
is presented annually to those companies, organizations and individuals who
have made exceptional efforts in reducing pollution through source reduction
and recycling waste. Timken is a leadership member of Ohio Prevention First,
a voluntary planning initiative that urges Ohio companies to incorporate
pollution prevention and waste minimization into their operations.
"The Timken Company was practicing pollution prevention even before the
Environmental Protection Agency came into existence," said Larry R. Brown,
vice president and general counsel. "It is a great honor to be recognized by
Governor Voinovich for our more recent achievements in pollution prevention.
We plan to continue our long-standing commitment to the environment and to
being a good neighbor in the communities where we have manufacturing
operations."
The environmental projects recognized for this award demonstrate Timken's
commitment to pollution prevention and waste minimization. Descriptions of
the significant environmental projects are as follows:
* With the installation of two acid recovery systems, built in Canton in
1989 and Wooster in 1995, Timken began recycling spent pickle liquor, a listed
hazardous waste. The recovered acid is sent back to the pickling operation
for reuse. This eliminated the need to neutralize, stabilize and dispose of
the 63 million pounds of pickle liquor annually and also significantly reduced
the amount of raw sulfuric acid used. The by-product of the recycling process
is a salable product used in fertilizer, magnetic recording tape and water
treatment chemicals.
* Timken voluntarily committed to achieve the U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency's 33/50 goals of reducing releases of specific chemicals by
33 percent in 1992 and 50 percent in 1995. The company exceeded these goals
by reducing the release of several targeted chemicals by 85 percent two years
ahead of schedule. Releases were reduced by recycling 50 percent of all
electric arc furnace (EAF) dust, a hazardous waste, generated by the Harrison
Steel Plant into its steelmaking process and sending the remaining 50 percent
of Harrison's EAF dust and all of that generated at the Faircrest Steel Plant
to a reclaimer for high temperature metals recovery. Also included was the
elimination of 1,1,1 Trichloroethane (TCE).
* The company accomplished its corporate goal of eliminating its ozone-
depleting chemicals in its manufacturing processes by not only discontinuing
the use of TCE, but also by replacing a freon cleaner with an alkaline
cleaner.
Timken's environmental projects recognized today as outstanding
achievements in pollution prevention have reduced annual hazardous releases by
more than 4.1 million pounds and solid waste by more than 32 million pounds.
The capital cost of the projects was in millions of dollars, confirming
Timken's commitment to pollution and waste minimization.
"One of The Timken Company's primary goals is to continuously improve its
environmental performance," said Mr. Brown. "It has been our experience that
minimizing waste and preventing pollution can benefit the environment and also
be good business."
The Timken Company is a leading international manufacturer of highly
engineered bearings and alloy steels. The company employs some 19,000
associates worldwide and reported 1996 sales of about U.S. $2.4 billion.
SOURCE The Timken Company
