15 Copyright 2012 Boart Longyear All rights reserved W aterBased Paints Salt Lake City USA Mississauga Canada and W uxi China T ransitioned from solventbased to water based paints for the painting of all percussive drilling products and diamond bits in the Companys Mississauga Canada Salt Lake City SLC USA and W uxi China manufacturing facilities The use of water based paints has reduced paintrelated emission of volatile organic compounds VOC by approximately 33 26 tonnes annually Equivalent to the emissions of 200000 vehicle kilometers HVLP Spray Guns SLC Mississauga W uxi and Drilling Services Shops Implemented use of high volume low pressure paint spray guns at SLC W uxi and Mississauga for painting of percussive drill products Eliminated about 40 of paint and paint thinner solvent use and associated VOC emissions of 21 tonnes Equivalent to the emissions of 160000 vehicle kilometers Mississauga Heat T reat Furnace Installed a higheffciency electric induction heating coil system at the Mississauga facility reducing annual natural gas consumption by 31 million m 3 with a concurrent reduction of 7000 tonnes of CO 2e Greenhouse Gas emissions Equivalent to taking 1200 passenger vehicles permanently of f the roads