Labcon has taken some significant steps to address the concerns we share with our end users about packaging and product waste.

• We have embraced the concepts of Sustainable Development* as a part of our corporate mission.
• We have formed an operations team to look at our company from top to bottom and assess what good environmental and social practices we have and what needs to change.
• We have formed partnerships with end user companies that share our vision of Sustainable Development to better understand what we can do to reduce or eliminate the negative effects of what we take, what we make, and what we waste.
• We have also committed to developing products that look toward Sustainable Development for their inspiration at the same time that they achieve the high performance characteristics that you need.

When we developed our patented cardboard racks for 15 and 50mL tubes in 1994 we didn't have the term Sustainable Development to use so we came up with Earth Friendly¨. Now Earth Friendly¨ is a registered trade mark of Labcon, North America and incorporates all we know about Sustainability. Our next steps are to continue to innovate products with reduced consumption like the Pagoda¨ pipet tip reloading system, the first of its kind. You will begin seeing these products carry the Sustainable Solutions label in the near future as we strive to bring you more intelligent product systems to help build a sustainable future.

*Sustainability was defined in 1987 by the Brundtland Commission as "Meeting the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs." Sustainable Development means that we must look at the total economic ecology associated with developing and marketing any product or service. Developing products that use less materials is only viable if those products can be produced without hazardous chemicals or processes.