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EHS Guidelines: General Manufacturing

This collection of Industry-Sector Environmental, Health, and Safety (EHS) Guidelines includes sub-sectors in general manufacturing, offering guidance on managing related environmental, occupational, and community risks. Technical guidance is available for a range of industries involved in raw material extraction, processing, and manufacturing of metals, building materials, ceramics, glass, and consumer goods, as well as electronics, textiles, and leather finishing.

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The EHS Guidelines for Smelting & Refining cover information relevant to base metal smelting and refining of lead, zinc, copper, nickel, and aluminum.

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The EHS Guidelines for Cement and Lime Manufacturing include information relevant to cement and lime manufacturing processes and plants.

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The EHS Guidelines for Ceramic Tile and Sanitary Ware Manufacturing include information relevant to ceramic tile and sanitary ware manufacturing projects and facilities.

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The EHS Guidelines for Construction Materials Extraction include information relevant to extraction activities for aggregates, limestone, slates, sand, gravel, clay, gypsum, feldspar, silica sands, and quartzite, as well as dimension stone. These guidelines address stand-alone projects and extraction activities supporting construction, civil works, and cement projects. They are applicable to both complex extraction schemes and small operations.

The EHS Guidelines for Foundries include information relevant to foundry projects and facilities casting ferrous (iron and steel) and nonferrous (primarily aluminum, copper, zinc, lead, tin, nickel, magnesium, and titanium) metals. These guidelines address sand casting, including the preparation and regeneration of molding sand, and the high- and low-pressure die casting of aluminum, zinc, and magnesium. This document also includes consideration of Disamatic (DISA) technology.

The EHS Guidelines for Glass Manufacturing include information relevant to glass manufacturing facilities.

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The EHS Guidelines for Integrated Steel Mills include information relevant to the manufacture of pig iron and raw or low-alloy steel from iron ore and iron-based alloys. It is applicable to the manufacture of metallurgical coke; primary iron and steel production in Blast and Basic Oxygen furnaces; scrap metal recycling in the electric arc furnace process; the production of semifinished products; and hot and cold rolling activities.

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The EHS Guidelines for Metal, Plastic, and Rubber Products Manufacturing address material processing operations common to multiple industries engaged in the manufacture of metal, plastic, and rubber products.

The EHS Guidelines for Printing include information relevant to printing facilities and the main printing technologies including lithography/offset, gravure/rotogravure, flexography, screen, and letterpress printing.

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The EHS Guidelines for Semiconductors and Other Electronics Manufacturing include information relevant to semiconductors and other electronics manufacturing projects and facilities.

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The EHS Guidelines for Tanning and Leather Finishing include information relevant to tanning and leather finishing projects and facilities, and specifically to operations related to preliminary treatment of the raw hide, tanning processes, post-tanning processes, and finished products manufacturing.

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The EHS Guidelines for Textile Manufacturing include information relevant to textile manufacturing projects and facilities for natural fibers, synthetic fibers (made entirely from chemicals), and regenerated fibers (made from natural materials by processing these materials to form a fiber structure).