Natural Capital
Natural Capital: Managing our resources and operations to minimize environmental impact.
L.B. Foster Company’s Environmental, Health, and Safety (“EHS”) policy sets the expectations under which we manufacture, market, and distribute products in a manner that protects our employees, business, community, customers, and the environment.
We operate production plants, offices, warehouses, and yard facilities in three countries (U.S., Canada, and the UK) which provide innovative technologies and products to various marketplaces. Our physical footprint, which contributes to our environmental footprint, includes ~15 production plants, another ~15 facilities (offices, warehouses, yards, R&D centers) as well as sales, service, and delivery vehicles. In most instances, our operations are not energy, carbon, water, or waste intensive; however, we do have general permits for environmental compliance. When manufacturing and delivering products to serve our customers, we consume energy and resources which are a source of emissions, effluents, and waste.
Our environmental footprint is based on the following:
- Fuels we consume in production, heating our plants and buildings, and mobilizing our fleet of sales, service, and delivery vehicles;
- Electricity we draw from the local utility’s energy grid;
- Air we emit from our production facilities;
- Water we discharge from plant operations and from office environments; and
- Waste generated and disposed from plant operations and from office environments.