SALT LAKE CITY, July 30 /EMWNews/ -- The Boeing Company

(NYSE: BA) today announced that its Fabrication manufacturing facility in

Salt Lake City, Utah, has been awarded an ISO 14001 environmental

management system certification from Det Norske Veritas, an accredited

certification body of quality, environmental and safety management systems.

ISO 14001 confirms Boeing's Salt Lake City facility has a certified system

in place to monitor, manage and continuously improve its environmental

management system.



    Boeing's Salt Lake City facility, which comprises a 267,000 square-foot

site on 18 acres, is a center of excellence for complex machined parts. The

site has a longstanding environmental management system and works with the

local community to protect and improve the quality of the environment

around the facility.



    The system includes plant-wide efforts to reduce energy use, reduce the

amount of material sent to landfills by improving the cardboard recycling

program and implementing a program for plastics by purchasing a baler to

compact the materials for recycling. In addition, the Salt Lake City

facility is reducing air emissions and improving operational controls to

eliminate spills into soil and water.



    "We see this certification as an important milestone in our efforts to

reduce environmental impacts and preserve precious resources. Working

together, we will continue to make progress towards our goal, which

ultimately will make this a much more environmentally efficient workplace

for all of our employees and the surrounding community," Carbon said.



    The international standards, first published in 1996 in Switzerland by

the International Organization for Standardization, are designed to assist

companies in developing, implementing and maintaining an effective

environmental management system.



    Boeing Commercial Airplanes fabrication and assembly locations in

Portland, Ore., and Everett, Wash., already are certified to the ISO 14001

standard.



    The Boeing Company is committed to pioneering environmentally

progressive technology and relentlessly reducing its environmental

footprint. Since the introduction of the first Boeing jetliner, airplane

emissions of carbon dioxide have been reduced by around 70 percent and the

noise footprints have been reduced by approximately 90 percent. Boeing

targets improving fuel efficiency and reducing carbon dioxide emissions of

each new generation of commercial airplane by at least 15 percent compared

to the airplanes they replace. Boeing has committed to extend ISO 14001

certification to all major manufacturing sites by the end of the year, and

has set aggressive targets to improve by 25 percent solid waste recycling

rates, energy efficiency and reduction of greenhouse gas emissions

intensity at its major manufacturing facilities by 2012, with a comparable

goal for hazardous waste reduction. For more information, visit the

company's 2008 environment report at http://www.boeing.com/environment.