James P. Rogers
President and CEO

The Future Matters
As the world’s view on sustainability broadens, expectations for environmental and social responsibility increase. From our beginnings in Kingsport as a manufacturer of photographic chemicals from renewable natural resources, our leadership in developing and adopting the chemical industry’s Responsible Care® initiative, and our current track record of developing practical solutions to today’s problems, Eastman has embraced its responsibility to sustainable development.

For us, the way we do business is by balancing environmental protection, social responsibility and economic growth now and in the future. It’s also the way we define sustainability.  More

Mark J. Costa
Executive Vice President

The Key to Delivering Solutions
Eastman is a company focused on delivering solutions our customers need using insights and innovative approaches we develop. We believe sustainability is foundational to our continued successful innovation efforts and is, in fact, the key to solving future problems for our customers and our world.

Because we are a manufacturer of chemicals, fibers, and plastics, sustainability is important to both the process and the product. We’ve had a unique success with IntegRex™ -- a process and product innovation for producing PET plastic. It resulted from our insight to drive cost efficiencies and environmental sensitivities for how we produce this product and others.  More

Theresa K. Lee
Chief Officer HSES

The Foundation for Sustainability
At Eastman Chemical Company, when we talk about health, safety, the environment and security (HSES), it’s not about the numbers that we report, but about the people both inside our plants and outside in our surrounding communities. That’s why we take our role as a Responsible Care® company very seriously.

In the past year, we’ve had many positive stories to tell about our company, including our continued strong performance in health, safety, security and environmental stewardship. Our safety performance continues to be among the best in our industry, as we experienced fewer recordable injuries, fewer serious injuries and fewer significant incidents in 2008.  More