Ray Lizotte, Texas Instruments Incorporated, June 2004
Ray Lizotte has taught several modules of the TUR Planner course every year since it was developed in 1992, and has contributed to nearly every major TUR educational conference for the past decade. Since 2001 he has served as President of the NBEN, the Northeast Business Environmental Network, where he coordinates monthly information exchange meetings and facilitates technology transfer among member companies. Ray is an expert on national and international environmental policy issues and regularly provides input to international policy focus group based on his real world experience.
All of these contributions are in addition to the TUR projects he has implemented at Texas Instruments (TI) Sensors and Controls Division in Attleboro, Massachusetts. Since 1987, Ray has fostered a team-based approach to TUR, to reduce TI's reliance on trichloroethylene, a toxic chemical, from 850 tons a year in 1985 to less than two tons. Other victories include eliminating over 2 million pounds of anhydrous ammonia, and cutting its use of cyanide compounds from 35,000 pounds in 1996 to just 5,000 in 2000, for which TI received the Massachusetts Governor's Award for Excellence in TUR. Currently, as the TI Attleboro facility is transitioning from manufacturing to product development, Ray is promoting environmental sustainability through product redesign.
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