Since the 1970s, Eastman’s energy policy has balanced the need for affordable energy supplies with the need to reduce the amount of energy needed to make our products. During the past year, we reduced our overall energy intensity by 6 percent compared to 2009, saving 3 million MMBtu.

Eastman’s integrated manufacturing process results in highly efficient operations, allowing waste heat from one chemical process to be used for heat within a different chemical process. Compared to sites that lack comprehensive integration of processes and energy systems, Eastman’s integrated sites provide:

• Greater opportunity to beneficially use materials
• Better use of thermal energy that would otherwise be discharged into the environment
• Reduction in long-distance transportation of materials
• Significantly smaller emissions across the supply chain  

We are working to expand the limits of innovation while developing new manufacturing processes that further reduce energy intensity and ensure our energy-related emissions are as clean as possible. More than $35 million will be invested in implementing more energy efficient manufacturing processes during 2010 and 2011.