Sustainability is one of our core operational strategies
At JWA, sustainability means recognizing and striving to enhance all forms of capital--human, natural, manufactured, and financial. While we must generate stakeholder value as a manufacturing company, we also believe we must contribute to the wellbeing of current and future generations. To that end, and under the leadership of a new senior management team, JWA has driven significant operational improvements through the effective implementation of Lean initiatives, a new ERP business system, and WIN (Principles of Organizational Change), all intended to Secure Our Future.
These efforts have helped us put in place a range of processes and systems that continually help us to conserve energy and natural resources; generate economic efficiency; improve safety and health for workers, communities and consumers; and reward employees socially and creatively.
More specifically, our sustainability efforts in 2010 alone have:
