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 90% of our manufacturing / R&D sites, as well as our Headquarters, have already implemented our SHE Management System, which incorporates ISO 14001 (environment), RC14001, security, product stewardship, emergency response, and value chain management requirements, and has just recently included OHSAS 18001 (occupational safety). In 2009, all but three facilities successfully implemented the SHE Management System. The remaining sites will complete the implementation of their systems in 2010.

• Expand the use of our internally-developed iSUSTAIN™ Green Chemistry Index, based on the Twelve Principles of Green Chemistry¹, throughout our R&D organization and outside of Cytec through the development of a public Web-based version of the Index. The iSUSTAIN Green Chemistry Index is a tool to generate a sustainability-based score for chemical products and processes. It contains a set of sustainability metrics based on the Twelve Principles of Green Chemistry* and takes into account such factors as waste generation, energy usage, health and environmental impact of raw materials and products, safety of processing steps, and others.

www.isustain.com

¹ As detailed in Paul T. Anastas, John C. Warner, “Green Chemistry: Theory and Practice,” Oxford University Press, U.S.A, 1998

• 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.