What's Ahead in 2013

In 2012 we successfully fine-tuned our approach to our DfE program.  As we see increasing customer requests and wins associated with our work in sustainability, it will be critical to deploy this program as part of our routine process in 2013, and we expect to identify many sustainability-related opportunities and design products that deliver benefits to our customers, to our organization and to the environment.

2013 will be focused on ingraining the DfE and sustainability philosophies into our business processes and business culture. To achieve this, we will:

• continue to deploy the DfE Mentor program
• capture case studies and best practices for successful incorporation of sustainability attributes into our products
• deploy data collection on environmental indicators for new products
• formalize the governance and planning cycles for the pillar
• engage key industry verticals that have sustainability as a priority to identify synergies between Brady’s efforts and that of its customers
• engage PDC, our newest acquisition, in sustainability efforts in the health care industry