More than 100,000 New Yorkers flocked to the Big Apple’s annual NEW GREEN CITY event last week – and Pratt Industries was on hand to help educate residents and businesses alike about the benefits of recycling. Hank Levin, Pratt’s NYC General Manager Recycling Division, said the company’s aim was to show its commitment to partnering with the private and …
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Breast Cancer Awareness Month is the month of October. The disease does not discriminate – young/old, family history/no family history, woman/man. No race is excluded; no geographical location is less prone to it. Anyone can fall victim to this common cancer, although it is more common in women. Given that about 1 in 8 women in the …
New York City is not only America’s largest city, it’s also planning to become America’s greenest under an ambitious environmental strategy outlined by Mayor Mike Bloomberg in 2007 to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 30% by 2030. For the past 6 years, GrowNYC – a non-profit whose goal is to improve New York’s quality of …
Who knew you could build a house, a wardrobe or even a space ship out of corrugated boxes? Well a group of imaginative children on Staten Island, New York, did just that – thanks to a truckload of boxes donated by Pratt Industries. To read more, please visit: “Who Says Boxes Are Confining? Not Staten Island Children.“ Looking for …
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Pratt Industries believes in giving back to the cities and towns across America where our employees live and work…and we urge others to support charitable organizations in their communities as well. Just last week Pratt got to help another very worthy cause involving children. The company was a proud featured sponsor of the annual Back to …
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GRAND RAPIDS, MI – MSU Grandparents University is an opportunity for grandparents and grandchildren (ages 8-12) to come together for a three-day educational experience while spending time together on the MSU campus. Participants enjoy the college experience of living in the residence halls, attending classes across campus and sampling the many highlights of MSU. Grandparents University …
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Employees of Pratt Industries have been taking care of the people in the communities in which they live and work long before community outreach became part of the wider corporate concept of the Triple Bottom Line. Whether it’s helping victims of a natural disaster, an organization that promotes athletic programs for women or a group …
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There’s been a lot of concern in recent days about debris from the Japanese tsunami washing up on West Coast shores…but a far greater ocean-based threat according to marine biologists is the environmental disaster known as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. This Texas-sized quagmire, most of it discarded plastic, is produced by ocean currents and …
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Pratt Industries recently became a major partner in the fight against hunger in Belize by providing transportation and logistics for a load of 44,000lbs of food and hygiene supplies earmarked for children in the Central American country. The shipment contained over 285,000 meals that were packed locally in Atlanta and are to be distributed to …
Pratt Industries continued its rapid expansion in the Northeast last week, with the official opening of a new, $35 million box plant outside Allentown, Pa. Governor Tom Corbett and former Pittsburgh Steelers great Mel Blount were among those attending the celebration in Macungie. “I’m extremely proud that we now have more than 50 factories in the …