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Indiana Ft. Wayne (3) Chongqing (3)
Iowa Red Oak (3) Shanghai (2)
Kentucky Florence (1),(3) Czech Republic Ceska Lipa (2),(3)
Michigan Holland (3) France Rouen
Missouri St. Joseph (2),(3) Sarreguemines (3)
North Carolina Kernersville (3) Germany Hannover (3)
Ohio Toledo (3) Krautscheid (3)
Oregon Canby (2),(3) Zwickau (2),(3)
Portland (2),(3) Korea Gumi (2),(3)
South Carolina Florence (3) Mexico Celaya
Oconee (3) Cienega de Flores (1)
Texas San Antonio (3) Escobedo
Wisconsin Milwaukee (4) Flores
Garcia
San Pedro (1),(4)
Tlalnepantla (1),(4)
Torreon
Spain Burgos
Guadamar del Segura
Guadalajara (1)
Ibi (3)
Sweden Hultsfred
Corporate
Wisconsin Milwaukee (4) China Dalian (1),(4)
Mexico Monterrey (1),(4)
Singapore Singapore (1),(4)
Slovak Republic Bratislava (1),(4)
(1) Leased facility
(2) Includes both leased and owned facilities
(3) Includes both administrative and manufacturing facilities
(4) Administrative facility only
In addition to the above listing, which identifies large properties (greater than 25,000 square feet), there are approximately 560
Building Efficiency branch offices and other administrative offices located in major cities throughout the world. These offices
are primarily leased facilities and vary in size in proportion to the volume of business in the particular locality.
ITEM 3 LEGAL PROCEEDINGS
As noted in Item 1, liabilities potentially arise globally under various environmental laws and worker safety laws for activities
that are not in compliance with such laws and for the cleanup of sites where Company-related substances have been released into
the environment.
Currently, the Company is responding to allegations that it is responsible for performing environmental remediation, or for the
repayment of costs spent by governmental entities or others performing remediation, at approximately 35 sites in the United States.
Many of these sites are landfills used by the Company in the past for the disposal of waste materials; others are secondary lead
smelters and lead recycling sites where the Company returned lead-containing materials for recycling; a few involve the cleanup
of Company manufacturing facilities; and the remaining fall into miscellaneous categories. The Company may face similar claims