Caterpillar's 2016 Sustainability Report

Caterpillar Inc. published its 2016 Sustainability Report, highlighting the company’s focus for more than 90 years on building better – better lives, better communities and, ultimately, a better world. Titled “Building Better,” the report showcases how Caterpillar customers use the company’s equipment to develop infrastructure, energy and natural resource assets that improve living standards and make sustainable progress around the world.

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Caterpillar Advanced Cabin Filtration Promotes Operator Health and Safety
The Caterpillar Advanced Cabin Filtration (ACF) system has been designed to promote optimal air quality and operator health, as well as to comply with increasingly strict global regulations on safe exposure limits of airborne contaminants and particulates.

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The Sustainability of Additive Manufacturing at Solar Turbines
Click here to read about how Solar Turbines has used Additive Manufacturing to produce and repair production components in-house.
Replacing conventional casting with these technologies allows Solar Turbines to develop and test components more quickly, produce components less expensively and repair components that would otherwise be scrapped.

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Slag Recycling Reduces Landfill Waste at Caterpillar Mapleton Foundry
The Mapleton Foundry generates anywhere from 2,000 to 4,000 tons of slag annually – a by-product from the iron melting process.

Learn more about how Mapleton has developed a cost-effective slag recycling process with the assistance of Veolia Environmental Services.

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Caterpillar Utilizes Simulation to Reduce Paint Waste

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Caterpillar Test Vehicle Washing Helps Save Water
Learn more about how the facility in Qingzhou, China, identified a key opportunity to significantly reduce water consumption by redesigning the vehicle washing processes.

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Caterpillar's Solar Installations in India Help Drive Renewable Energy Goal
Our Hosur, India plant recently installed 150 kilowatt solar panels on its roof.

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Caterpillar's Real-Time Energy Data Helps Drive Results
Seeing is believing. That maxim has proven to be true at Caterpillar China Machinery Components Co. Operator Station Facility in Wuxi, China.

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Caterpillar's Women in Leadership Initiative
Inclusion drives business results, and Caterpillar knows that when it focuses on having the best talent – including a more gender-balanced workforce – everyone benefits.

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Caterpillar | Improving Safety Through Culture
With over 1,000 employees across three shifts, injuries have been significantly reduced at Solar Turbines’ Turbomachinery Operations in Southern California.

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Caterpillar's Community Impact
Our success contributes to the social stability of regions around the world. Caterpillar and our employees focus on contributing time and resources to promoting the health and welfare of communities in which we work and live. We conduct our business in a manner that respects human rights individually.

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