Technology/Communications Industry

Today’s technology and communications companies have a renewed focus on excelling in their core businesses, resulting in outsourced manufacturing operations and a shift toward product design and assembly. This shift has resulted in many companies reducing their environmental staffs and relying instead on outsourced mechanisms to solve environmental issues. Traditional environmental remediation services remain where companies hold liability for legacy sites. Added are new challenges associated with managing product life cycles and myriad manufacturers associated with those life cycles, involving such issues as product stewardship, sustainability, and global compliance and management. Global environmental policy and compliance are also growing challenges as companies internationally expand. As a result, the environmental management function has the potential to create significant business value if it is aligned with the organization’s overall business strategy.

Benefits of WESTON’s Services for the Technology and Communications Industries

• Improved corporate/organization image through development of a certified environmental management system and/or proactive approach to environmental issues.

• Increased competitiveness and/or market share by integrating customer environmental preferences into products and/or services.

• Reduced environmental management costs through development of systems to standardize and streamline procedures and processes, and/or outsourcing components of the environmental management function.