“O ru Inveemnsstt Pay Off –
for Employees, Customers,
and the Environment”
profitable, but also safer. “The employees
see that their employer doesn’t only talk
about safety in training,” says Dr. Susan
W. Graham, who has been the Managing
Director of ELANTAS PDG since 2004.
“Our safety culture is lived by everyone
here.” And this has paid off. Although so-
phisticated chemical substances are pro-
cessed, the number of occupational accidents
with lost work time has steadily
decreased.
The Success Is Not a Coincidence
From 2005 to 2012 alone, ALTANA invested
35 million dollars to modernize the
site. A total of 11 million dollars were earmarked
for a new blending facility,
the largest single investment to date in an
ELANTAS company. The employees at
the plant manufacture insulating resins for
Dr. Susan W. Graham, Managing Director of ELANTAS PDG
Successful Modernization
When ALTANA acquired The P. D. George
Company in St. Louis, U.S., in 1996, all of
the participants knew that the new subsidiary
had great potential but that extensive
investments had to be made. The
facilities
at the over 80-year-old site were
antiquated and did not meet ALTANA’s
standards.
Today the company is one of the Group’s
model enterprises, supplying the ELANTAS
division with a wide range of products
in the NAFTA region. The products insulate
live electrical wires and protect, for ex-
ample, motors, circuit boards and sensors
from vibrations and heat.
The investments that have been made not
only make the work at the plants more
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