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Designing for efficiency, quality and environmental sustainability
Our products are long lived and highly reliable. Stated simply, they turn energy into useful work and we are passionate about reducing our products’ energy use. The result is innovative, energy efficient technologies that help reduce our customers’ environmental footprints.
Since 1997, UTC has invested more than $26 billion in customer- and company-funded research and development (R&D), $3.6 billion in 2007 alone. United Technologies Research Center (UTRC) develops technologies that help us deliver high performance products that are energy efficient, quiet and safe. In 2007, 40 percent of UTRC’s R&D funding was invested in projects that directly benefit the environment. In September 2007, UTRC signed a five-year, $5 million agreement with Tsinghua University in Beijing, China, to help create the technologies needed for the world’s next generation, high-performance buildings.
UTC Power was chosen as an official supplier partner to the Clinton Climate Initiative, and its PureCycle geothermal power system was one of R&D magazine’s 100 most technologically significant products of 2007. EcoPower engine wash, developed by Pratt & Whitney Global Service Partners, uses atomized, purified water to keep engines running smoothly without any detergents or solvents. Clean engines are more fuel efficient. If all airlines used this engine washing system, it would save 3.2 million metric tons of CO2 from being emitted into the atmosphere and save airlines more than $850 million in fuel costs each year. In 2007, UTC Fire & Security acquired Finland-based Marioff Corporation Oy which manufactures HI-FOG, a high-pressure water mist system with specially designed nozzles to release fine mist micro-droplets instead of heavy streams of water. The result is a system requiring much less water than traditional sprinkler systems.
In 2007, UTC put cross functional teams in place to ensure compliance with the European Union REACH (Registration, Evaluation, Authorization and Restriction of Chemicals) legislation on chemical management. These activities build on our voluntary efforts to eliminate materials of concern from our products.
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