Delphi Celebrates Environmental Successes

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Delphi Celebrates Environmental Successes

MICHIGAN, TROY, Apr. 18 -/E-Wire/-- A leader in innovative product technology, Delphi Automotive Systems (NYSE: DPH) is making other innovative advances: new technologies and processes aimed at protecting the environment, its employees and local communities. With Earth Day drawing near, Delphi is celebrating a number of successful environment-friendly processes and activities.

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"Delphi is fully committed to preserving the environment by reducing waste and pollutants, conserving resources and recycling materials at every stage of the product life cycle," said Glenn Howarth, director, Delphi environmental services. "As Earth Day approaches we like to reflect on our past successes in this area while we continue to look for new ways to reduce our impact upon our environment every day."

Last year Delphi environmental and energy initiatives have helped our global operations to reduce more than 1,100 tons of raw materials used and 8.9 million gallons of water consumption, as well as resulted in more than 8,000 tons of material recycled or re-used. An additional 5,000 tons of waste was eliminated from disposal last year and more than 5,000 tons of air emissions were reduced or avoided.

Examples of new Delphi environmental accomplishments within the past year include:

* Delphi Packard Electric Systems developed an automotive wiring recycling process in Europe that results in saving approximately 400 metric tons of PVC scrap to landfills annually. In the past, all scrap from the production of automotive wiring harnesses was shredded to reclaim the copper content of the wires. The residue was a mix of all the plastic content of a harness including the PVC insulation, which makes up to 65 percent of the plastic content. This residue had to be land filled or incinerated, since there was no known, feasible way to recycle it. Delphi's process separates PVC from scrapped automotive wiring harnesses and treats it in a way that it can be reused in the same application. This new process can be extended to harness scrap of end-of-life vehicles for additional environmental savings.

* Facilities operating in the Ohio region have initiated an improved scrap management program that has resulted in the open market bidding of almost 23,000 tons of material. This program has also improved operations at the Delphi Harrison Thermal Systems' Moraine, Ohio, facility, where various types of metal chips were scrapped and mixed together, thereby rendering it as waste. As a result of ISO 14001 implementation, and through pollution prevention teams at the facility, a process for separating the metal byproduct by type was developed, thus preventing it from becoming waste material.

* A Delphi Saginaw Steering Systems' facility is utilizing a new, high quality wastewater treatment system, which allows 100 percent of the treated liquid to be reused in cooling towers. This initiative has resulted in reduction of 1.8 million gallons of water from the city supply system.

* Delphi Delco Electronics Systems was able to transform a 10-year-old machine with limited technology, low transfer efficiencies, and high costs into a more efficient, environmentally friendly piece of equipment. The introduction of new painting technologies led to a 66 percent decrease in raw material usage as well as reductions in water usage. It also reduced the amount of hazardous waste generated by 115 tons that was sent off site for treatment and disposal.

* A Delphi Energy & Chassis Systems' facility proved itself as an industry leader with the implementation of a new primer process. In the past all manufacturers of bonded drum brake shoes utilized an adhesive primer that consisted of approximately 70 percent solvent. The plant developed a water- based adhesive primer that has a much lower health, safety and environmental impact than the solvent-based material currently used by other manufacturers. The new water-based material is more robust than the solvent material and requires less complex equipment, less chemical adjustment, and results in the reduction of more than 50 tons of volatile organic compound (VOC) emissions per year.

* Delphi Interior Systems' Vandalia, Ohio facility developed a process in which the waste that was created in the steering wheel manufacturing process is 100 percent recycled, while also better utilizing other scrap material in the plant. The process reduced the overall volume and cost of waste disposal by utilizing plastic regrind as raw material and by using materials that can be recycled. In addition, the new process helped the facility avoid over 45 tons of land filled material.

For more information about Delphi Automotive Systems, visit Delphi's Virtual Press Room at http://www.delphiauto.com/vpr.

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