Meeting Significant Global Challenges Through Innovation

Today’s world confronts a multitude of considerable challenges. The issues these challenges raise for businesses and consumers confound prioritization and often demand responses that unfold over decades. For example, we must cooperate and invest in ways that allow us to:

• Maximize energy efficiency
• Assure viable, renewable energy sources for the future
• Minimize environmental damage and improve air and water quality
• Extract scarce resources for use by the broadest possible populations
• Create appropriate infrastructure and services to raise living standards throughout the developing world
• Protect the safety, security and quality of food and medicine wherever produced, stored, distributed and consumed
• Deliver healthcare effectively to an aging and expanding populace
• Collect and disburse industrial knowledge to respond to the shrinking base of experienced workers in the developed world and the expansion of commerce in emerging economies
• Ensure that ubiquitous telecommunication and data networks remain on, all the time and everywhere
• Apply technologies that help create safe environments for people at work and at home

Because of our company’s longstanding leadership in the markets and regions we serve, and through strong customer and industry relationships, Emerson businesses work on the leading edge of these issues. More so, we live our commitment to address challenges of this nature head-on, and contribute to their solutions. A sampling of our efforts across Emerson’s business platforms include:

Process Management
Emerson enables process industries, such as oil and gas, refining, alternative fuels, mining, power, water, pharmaceutical, food and beverage, and pulp and paper to operate plants and equipment with greater precision and safety as well as less energy and fewer emissions. To achieve this, Emerson’s highly innovative PlantWeb™ technologies offer advanced, intelligent instrumentation and controls; digital automation architectures; and interactive wireless devices and systems; all enhanced by software, services and solutions.

For example, Liquified Natural Gas (LNG) is becoming an energy source of choice in many areas of the world. The processes of extracting, condensing, transporting and then converting LNG back to gas require expertise and technology that Emerson provides. We are also helping process and distribute clean and safe water to growing, developing populations. Our customers rely on us to optimize precise, reliable production of medicines that fight and manage disease. We help process and package foods and beverages consumed around the world; and we’re helping to mine and process commodities elemental to global manufacturing.

Through the installation of Ovation™ brand power plant controls, Emerson enables thermal efficiency gains that help global customers reduce CO2 emissions by over 20 million tons per year. Additionally, Emerson technologies support oil and gas production and transmission pipelines with broad functionality, including highly accurate measurements that detect and prevent emissions and help reduce environmental damage.

Network Power
From the power grid to the power chip, Emerson provides infrastructure equipment and solutions to meet the needs of data centers, telecommunications and other business networks around the world. Power to these networks must be clean, reliable and always on. Emerson’s innovative offering includes high efficiency power conversion devices for servers and critical electronic systems; innovative reliable power and backup power technologies; uninterruptable power supplies; precision cooling equipment; and comprehensive services and solutions.

In the telecommunications industry, delivering bandwidth and highly reliable power is essential. To meet changing consumer and business needs, telecom networks, and the services and technologies that support them, are often deployed and managed locally to allow delivery of new voice, video and Internet applications and services closer to customers. Business adds further complexity to “always on” connectivity as global and mobile communications support a virtual workforce and customer base. Emerson is involved in the solution.

Data centers alone consume nearly 2 percent of electricity in the United States and double in size every 24 months as they house increasingly powerful servers, generating more heat and creating greater power and cooling needs. For these critical sites that primarily serve data processors, network and telecommunications providers, Emerson supplies comprehensive energy management and reliability technology. These solutions, based on innovative products such as the Liebert XD™ extreme density precision cooling equipment, optimize use of space and conserve energy. Application of these Emerson approaches eliminates more than 10 million tons of CO2 each year in data centers alone.

Climate Technologies
Emerson’s broad involvement in heating, cooling and refrigeration applications across the world helps meet demands for higher living standards, improved food handling approaches and above all, energy efficiency. Residential and commercial air conditioning, heating and refrigeration industries rely on Emerson’s innovative climate control technologies, services and integrated solutions for indoor comfort, energy efficiency, and food safety.

Emerson works closely with customers, industry associations and governments to effectively implement new, stricter efficiency standards. The company then helps satisfy these standards with approaches that range from creating new generations of compression technology to shifting to the use of environmentally friendly chlorine-free R-410A refrigerant. Emerson technology is also vital to safety and quality along the food production chain, from processing to transportation and storage, and we help supermarkets around the world monitor and manage energy use and ensure that systems are operating properly. Our programmable thermostats offer better environmental and comfort control.

A prime example of Emerson’s importance to the industry involves the energy saved by Emerson Copeland Scroll Compressor air conditioning technology. Emerson’s installed base of scroll compressors reduces North American CO2 emissions by nearly 15 million tons per year.

Industrial Automation
Emerson maintains a strong legacy in designing and producing energy-efficient motors and drives as well as specialized, efficient technologies for materials joining, mechanical power transmission, and other applications for the world’s manufacturing economy.

We also provide generators and critical couplings for drive trains for the leading manufacturers of windmills in important geographies, including China. On the job site, variable-speed, hybrid motors help deliver energy efficiency and increased productivity to the construction and industrial infrastructure, from mobile compressors to multi-story cranes.

During the past five years, Emerson has delivered more than 700,000 AC drives that minimize energy consumption by fans, pumps, compressors, conveyors and mixers and underscore Emerson’s role in making the industrial world more productive and efficient. These drives prevent release of nearly 2 million tons of CO2 annually.

Appliance and Tools
Emerson serves the quality needs of professional contractors with tool technologies and improves residential convenience and comfort through products such as garbage disposers, storage and organizing systems and energy-responsible appliance controls.

Emerson also offers mobile healthcare information technology to improve the delivery and safety of medical services in the hospital setting. The RIDGID plumbing line provides workers throughout the world with reliable and efficient means to build safe and reliable infrastructure. Further contributions include advancing technology and producing energy-efficient electric motors for applications ranging from consumer appliances to large industrial systems.

Emerson’s InSinkErator® brand garbage disposers offer an energy-efficient and environmentally friendly way to manage household food waste, reducing global CO2 generation by more than 3 million tons per year.