TPi January 2011

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Alcoa launches fifth annual Worldwide Month of Service

need. This is the outcome by which we ultimately measure our success.”

Month of Service is the centrepiece of year-round volunteer efforts by Alcoa employees, who in 2009 gave 650,000 hours of service to 9,000 charitable organisations – the equivalent of 325 people working full-time. Their time was matched with $4mn in Alcoa volunteer grants. More than 6,000 Alcoa employees in 12 countries across Europe took part in Month of Service. In Russia, 2,500 ‘Alcoans’ worked on environmental restoration projects and assisted the underserved. Alcoa Spain worked alongside 150 local non-profit organisations, restoring waterways and planting 1,000 trees. In France, employees promoted sustainability by hosting biodiversity workshops, cleaning rivers and recycling. Alcoa Switzerland employees served meals to those in need and provided skills development at a women’s shelter.

Alcoa employees prepared to set a new volunteering record in October, during the company’s annual Worldwide Month of Service, with more than one-third of Alcoa’s global workforce ready to give their time, talent and hands-on support to strengthen local communities. Throughout October 23,000 Alcoa employees volunteered in close to 700 service events across 24 countries. The projects addressed the needs of local communities where Alcoa operates, from strengthening literacy and STEM (science, technology, engineering andmathematics) skills, to bolstering capacity of community service organisations, to improving the natural environment through tree planting and recycling. Employees’ collective efforts supported the work of 1,600 non- profit organisations.

mobilises employees to make a positive impact in their local communities. More than 190,000 people across Alcoa and thebroader communityhaveparticipated in Month of Service volunteer events since its inception in 2006. “At Alcoa, community service is a core value, and our employees continually look to give back in ways that are both meaningful and sustainable,” said Alcoa chairman and CEO Klaus Kleinfeld. “Month of Service was organised five years ago to demonstrate Alcoa’s commitment to its people, the causes that are important to them and the needs of the local communities where we do business. Working with outstanding non-profit partners throughout the world, we have grown our Month of Service activities each year, reflecting the passion and persistence of our people and enabling us to help more people in

Alcoa Inc – USA www.alcoa.com

Celebrating its fifth year, Alcoa’s Month of Service is a company-wide event that

60 years at YCT The birthday celebrations at Yorkshire Copper Tube continue as the company launches its latest edition of Tube Talk. Following the success of its first specially extended Tube Talk in April 2010, the company completes its journey through 60 years of manufacturing at its Kirkby plant with another four additional pages of nostalgia.

The latest edition of Tube Talk can be obtained by emailing tubetalk@icgonline.co.uk or by calling +44 1772 679383.

All of Yorkshire’s copper tubes carry the British Kitemark, and the company’s quality management system is BS EN 9001 approved.

Yorkshire Copper Tube – UK info@yct.com www.yct.com

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