Cytec’s Approach to Sustainable Development

Cytec practices Sustainable Development by focusing on its People, Products, and the Environment. We believe that our employees’ safety at work is a critical measure of successful continued operation and growth.  To support sustainable development principles, our products must be safer and more environmentally friendly.  We need to do more than reduce our impact.  We are committed to improving the environment by reducing emissions and waste and using fewer resources such as energy, and have established company-wide metrics to track our progress. We believe that chemical manufacturers should be able to do business with minimal impact on the environment and society…and Cytec is working toward this goal.

One way to consistently make progress is to make sure the systems and processes that lead us toward sustainable development practices are in place.  The next step is ensuring employees follow these processes, so we have continued to:

• Certify sites to the Cytec SHE Management system, which requires that we identify and act in areas where we can improve safety, health, environmental and security performance.  More than 85% of our manufacturing / R&D sites, as well as our Headquarters, have already implemented the ACC RC14001 program.  All US manufacturing sites completed certification by the end of 2007, and 80% of the manufacturing / R&D sites outside the US have implemented the system as of year end 2008.  All manufacturing sites worldwide will be certified by the end of 2009.
   
• Collaborate on an industry-wide effort to share best environmental practices across the chemical industry.  Cytec is a member of The Center for Sustainable Technology Practices Educational Group, part of The American Institute of Chemical Engineers’ Institute for Sustainability.  Our participation helps promote the use of sustainable tools, models and practices across the chemical industry as well as within Cytec.