tailieunhanh - Cleaner Production

With differing views on future developments,companies, especially largeinternationalcompanies, are positioning themselves to take advantage of emerging environmental trends. Among Japanese companies visited, the panel observed an acute interest in using the environmental advantages of their products and processes to enhance their com-petitive position in the market. In the northern European countries visited, the panel saw what could be interpreted as primarily aprotectionist posture; that is, the development of practices and policies to enhance the well-being of EU countries, that could act as barriers to outsiders. In the ., the panel found a high degree of environmental awareness among the. | x Cleaner Production Available online at -Journal of _ Qeaner Production ELSEVIER Journal of Cleaner Production 13 2005 1-17 locate jclepro Environmentally benign manufacturing Observations from Japan Europe and the United States Timothy Gutowskia Cynthia Murphy b David Allen c Diana Bauerd Bert Brase Thomas Piwonkaf Paul Sheng g John Sutherland h Deborah Thurstoni Egon Wolffj a Massachusetts Institute of Technology Department of Mechanical Engineering 77 Massachusetts Avenue Room 35-234 Cambridge MA 02139 USA b University of Texas at Austin Center for Energy and Environmental Resources R7100 10100 Burnet Road Building 133 Austin TX 78758 USA c University of Texas at Austin Department of Chemical Engineering Austin TX 78712-1062 USA d USEPA Headquarters Ariel Rios Building 1200 Pennsylvania Avenue . Washington . 20460 USA e Georgia Institute of Technology Systems Realization Laboratory Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering Atlanta GA 30332-0405 USA f University of Alabama MCTC 106 Bevill Building. 7th Avenue . Box 870201 Tuscaloosa AL 35487-0201 USA g McKinsey Company Inc. 111 Congress Avenue Suite 2100 Austin TX 78701 USA h Michigan Technological University Department of Mechanical Engineering 1400 Townsend Dr. Houghton MI 49931 USA i University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign 117 Transportation B MC 238 104 s. Maihews Urbana IL 61801 USA j Bradley University 413-D College of Engineering Environment Sustainability and Innovation 1501 W. Bradley Avenue Peoria IL 61625 USA Received 14 August 2002 accepted 12 October 2003 Abstract A recent international panel study Gutowski T Murphy C Allen D Bauer D Bras B Piwonka T Sheng P Sutherland J Thurston D Wolff E. WTEC Panel Report on Environmentally Benign Manufacturing EBM 2000 on the web at http itri. ebm and http ebm finds Environmentally Benign Manufacturing EBM emerging as a significant competitive dimension between companies. With differing .