ADTRAN Highlights Best Practices for Corporate Sustainability at QuEST Forum
13 September 2016 - 6:28AM
Business Wire
Keynote will detail a sustainability blueprint
for environmental stewardship
ADTRAN®, Inc., (NASDAQ:ADTN), a leading provider of
next-generation open networking solutions, announced today that
Mike Foliano, senior vice president of operations, will present a
case study on how ADTRAN has addressed the environmental impact of
its products’ lifecycles from design, through build, to deployment.
Delivered during a keynote address as part of the QuEST Forum
Service Provider Summit, Foliano will articulate how ADTRAN’s
environmental stewardship program creates positive and long-term
improvement within the company, its suppliers, manufacturing
partners, distribution network and end customers. Summit attendees
will learn from Foliano’s insight how they can better utilize
Earth’s natural resources to create a more environmentally
sustainable and conscious industry while improving profitability
across the information and communication technology (ICT)
industry.
What: Keynote Presentation: "ADTRAN's Sustainability
Journey," by Mike Foliano, Senior Vice President of Operations,
ADTRAN Where: QuEST Service Provider Summit, Nashville, Tennessee
When: 9:30 am CST, September 13, 2016 Abstract: Creating
sustainability practices starts on the product creation drawing
board, as products can be designed to use a lower amount of energy
to operate, which can lead to a cost savings over time and lower
the environmental impact of the device over its life span.
Continuously improving upon the extraction and utilization of
natural resources through fair labor practices also plays a
critical role in sustainability. While it may seem costly, these
practices can improve profitability for companies that seek to
become more environmentally viable.
“Over the past 10 years, ADTRAN has created corporate
transparency to be more green and support key environmental saving
initiatives by creating products that have a lower environmental
footprint; reducing energy and water consumption in our business;
pursuing an aggressive policy of recycling materials; and providing
sustainability awareness throughout the company,” said Foliano. “It
is vital that companies around the world become better corporate
citizens and have clear sustainability objectives in place to
ensure that their corporate growth does not harm the generations of
the future. For ADTRAN, implementing these procedures is about
doing the right thing—not only as a technology provider, but as a
global company—as these types of changes affect the entire
planet.”
QuEST Forum is a global association of companies dedicated to
impacting the quality and sustainability of products and services
in the ICT industry. ADTRAN is a charter member of QuEST Forum and
is a key participant in the forum’s strategic initiatives. The
Service Providers Summit provides an opportunity for ICT service
providers and their suppliers to come together and collaborate on
best practices and discuss issues that they are facing in the ICT
industry. Foliano’s keynote aims to provide more insight into the
vital importance of lessening a company’s overall environmental
impact and footprint and how other companies can follow suit to
become more environmentally aware.
“QuEST Forum provides an opportunity for the ICT industry to
come together and discuss new ways of both furthering ICT industry
standards and ethical sustainability practices.
In addition, we recently launched an online self-assessor
capability (QuEST Assessor) to help organizations go from a
cold start, to a comprehensive view of their
current status and a clear path for improvement. We are
pleased ADTRAN continues to play a vital role in helping to improve
upon those standards and practices,” said Fraser Pajak, CEO of
QuEST Forum. “As a charter member of QuEST Forum, ADTRAN has
contributed standards improvements in our TL 9000 certification,
which benchmarks ICT industry specific standards, as well as shapes
the direction of standards for sustainability practices for the ICT
industry. By sharing the strategies it utilizes for proper
sustainability practices, ADTRAN’s leadership is actively
contributing to the improvement of the industry as a whole.”
About ADTRAN
ADTRAN, Inc. is a leading global provider of networking and
communications equipment. ADTRAN’s products enable voice, data,
video and Internet communications across a variety of network
infrastructures. ADTRAN solutions are currently in use by service
providers, private enterprises, government organizations, and
millions of individual users worldwide. For more information,
please visit www.adtran.com.
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