SEMARNAT Awards Vitro For Being A Leading Company In The Environmental Leadership Initiative For Competitiveness

Date: 1 December 2009

Source: VITRO

Date: 1 December 2009

San Pedro Garza García, Nuevo León, México, Novemeber 26, 2009 – Today the Secretary for the Environment and Natural Resources, Ing.

Juan Rafael Elvira Quesada, delivered to Ing. Hugo A. Lara, CEO for Vitro, an award for the Containers business unit’s participation in the “Environmental Leadership Initiative for Competitiveness” 2009.

During the event that took place in the Royal Pedregal Hotel located in Mexico City, Dr. Hernando Guerrero Cázares, Coordinator for the Secretary’s advisors reminded those present that “this program is supported by the pilot program developed jointly by SEMARNAT and the Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CCA) in which 146 companies participated with results that save 132 million pesos per year driven by better use of raw materials, the lowering of green house gas emissions into the atmosphere and the reduction in the discharge of contaminants into the water system”.

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