Bigger Home Benefits  Flying High  At the Top Home Again Thanks, Alcoans! Planning Ahead Protecting the Blue Danube  Driving Down Problems Upgrading Spanish Smelters Jaz Rana,  Exeter, United Kingdom Alcoa Aluminio is playing a vital role in two large-scale  airport expansions in Brazil, including the Guararapes International Airport. Alcoa Home Exteriors (AHE) and Dow Building Materials introduced Structure  Premium Insulated Siding for residential customers. In addition to low maintenance, the product offers superior strength and durability, increased noise reduction and water resistance, and energy savings. AHE also added Ventura Hidden Vent Soffit to its premium line of soffits and fascia. It delivers up to 50% more ventilation than other hidden-vent panels  and better ventilation than standard soffit. Alcoa Aluminio is playing  a vital role in two large-scale airport expansions in Brazil. The Itapissuma plant devel- oped aluminum profiles  and coating to meet specifi- cations for the Guararapes International expansion. At Congonhas Airport, a new arrivals and departures building was made with Alcoa Façade Systems. Alcoa’s Unit System technol- ogy made it possible to prefabricate panels and install them during the few hours available as the  airport continued to operate.  As part of Alcoa’s program  to plant ten million trees, employees at Alcoa’s  Hannover, Germany, site planted trees with the help of a pachyderm named Sayang. The main tree was placed near the elephant exhibit at the Zoo of Hannover. Sayang apparently was thankful – she lent her trunk to help water it.  Alcoa, Toyota Motor, and  BP were named the world’s best in the first annual  Global 100 Most Sustainable Corporations . The listing, developed by Innovest and Corporate Knights, ranks companies by how well they meet “the triple bottom line,” a measure of value that bal- ances environmental, social, and economic impacts.  Red wolves were native to North Carolina, but experts believe that fewer than 500  of them now exist world- wide. Alcoa Foundation awarded the Rowan Nature and Learning Center near Badin (NC) a grant to con- struct a red wolf habitat as part of a renovation project at the Center. Badin is home to Yadkin-Alcoa Power  Generating and Alcoa  Badin Works.  Alcoa partnered with Landsvirkjun, Iceland’s national power company, to work with an advisory  group to develop methods to measure sustainable perform- ance at Alcoa’s new Fjar aál aluminum smelter and the related hydropower facility. The group comprises more than 30 stakeholders repre- senting diverse environmental, social, and economic perspec- tives, including project supporters and those opposed. To eliminate ergonomic  concerns, Alcoa Engineered Products in Lafayette (IN) improved its method of hang- ing driveshaft tubes for heat treatment. The new process uses chains and tools to hold the tubes in place, eliminating the need to twist strong  wires by hand. Production also improved because the stronger connection means that fewer tubes fall into the pit, reducing the need to drain the pit to retrieve them.  Alcoa is investing in technol- ogy and environmental improvements at three of its smelters in northern Spain.  At Avilés, the Company is making innovation and tech- nology improvements that will enable the plant to meet European Union environmen- tal standards effective in 2007. At La Coruña and  the San Ciprián smelter and alumina refinery, Alcoa  is implementing the terms  of a voluntary agreement with the regional government to improve emissions.  Alcoa Foundation and Alcoa Europe donated funds to the International Commission for the Protection of the Danube River (ICPDR) to support the Transnational Monitoring System, a water management network that tracks sub- stances across country boundaries in the Danube River Basin. The funds pur- chased technical equipment for the Romanian Waters Department on the Crisuri River in Romania. The ICPDR facilitates coopera- tion between the European Commission and all the Danube Basin countries.  19