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Inogen WorldView® Conference 2013

EORM joins Inogen Environmental Alliance

Inogen® Insights August 2013

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“ESC leads Inogen Associates on Risk Studies in Asia”

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s the one of the leading EHS & Risk consultancies in Southeast Asian region, EnviroSolutions & Consulting (ESC) has strived to continuously develop its team and the quality of its professional services to its clients. As an important scope of its Industrial Permitting Advisory services, ESC has managed and delivered more than 30 Quantitative Risk Assessment (QRA) projects in Singapore over the past 5 years and gained significant recognition amongst local clients and government agencies.

Since December 2012, ESC has been working closely with SAVE, which is part of Oranjewoud Netherlands, a member of the Antea Group, beginning with the Jurong Rock Cavern (JRC) QRA project. Coming from a strong background in industrial process risk assessment with decades of technical and practical experience in the Netherlands, the SAVE team provided valuable expertise on this project. The JRC project, with a capital ... Continued on page 2 >

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theyou Black Sea Catchment” If would like to discuss any of “Sylvain Rouzeau, Page 4 or content of this Appointed to Inogen newsletter please do not Board of Directors” hesitate to contact us: “Delta-Simons named Page 5 - Paul Durkee, President & CEO Woodland Trust's [email protected] carbon partner” “EORM Joins the Inogen Environmental Alliance”

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“Maximizing Value for Global Divestment”

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“Inogen WorldView Conference 2013”

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“Inogen WorldView Page 9 Beyond Carbon Neutral”

The first stage of the Jurong Rock Cavern will see over 8km of underground tunnel being constructed.

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“In with the New”

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“Inogen Hosts Auto-Supplier Global Workshop”

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“President’s Message”

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s the summer holidays wind down in the northern hemisphere, I trust everyone had a great summer, but now it is time to get back to work! Inogen has been busy the past several months. We have a new associate – EORM, launched our new and improved website (www.inogenet.com) and have been busy planning our autumn WorldView event with OESA. EORM is a great addition to the Inogen family. They are based in San Jose, California USA and bring excellent consulting experience and many great clients to Inogen. Please read the article about EORM in this newsletter. Also, check out their website at www.eorm.com. Please check out our new website, it highlights some very

> Continued from page 1 investment of $950 million, is the first underground hydrocarbon storage facility in Southeast Asia. Located approximately 130m beneath the seabed in the Jurong Island region of Singapore, the massive rock cavern will store over 2 million cubic meters of liquid hydrocarbons and save up to 60 hectares of aboveground land area for the landscarce city state.

interesting and important projects and makes it easier to find our associate offices located around the world. On October 8 we will be having a WorldView conference in conjunction with OESA (Original Equipment Suppliers Association). OESA has asked Inogen to develop and present a one day seminar to their members in Troy, Michigan, USA. The seminar will focus on the EHS requirements and emerging regulations across the world that impact the Tier 1 and 2 suppliers to the world’s automotive industry. Please read the article regarding this conference in this issue of Insights.

Shanghai, China. The WorldView date is tentatively set for April 23, 2014. Look for information on the conference theme and speakers in future correspondence and on our website. Inogen is always striving to provide excellent in-country EHS and sustainability consultants. We are here to serve our collective clients around the world! Please let me know how we can help. - Paul Durkee [email protected]

If you are a member of OESA you can join us, if not you will have to wait until our Spring WorldView that will be held in

project in Singapore, the risk of underground oil explosion causing loss of containment, and subsequent above-ground damage could not be adequately assessed using standard QRA methodologies and models. Such standard models are designed based on empirical data and are built to cover a wide range of accident cases and hazardous installations. Conservative analysis using generic QRA

However, due to the unprecedented nature of this

models would produce consequence results many times larger than in reality, leading to mitigation measures or safety systems which are unnecessarily overdesigned. To overcome this challenge, the ESC-SAVE team employed advanced Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) modelling to simulate the underground explosion impacts, which is highly uncommon for QRAs in Singapore. In CFD modeling, the 3D geometric model of the structure (in this case, the rock cavern) is produced and utilised within the software. This additional input improves the robustness of the analysis ... Continued on page 3 >

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> Continued from page 1 & 2 and increases confidence in the results. The combined effort between ESC and SAVE was highly successful in introducing CFD modelling for QRA projects to the Singapore regulating authorities and received much positive feedback from these authorities. Building upon the JRC QRA project, ESC continued to engage SAVE to provide technical training for ESC’s QRA team through a comprehensive 3-months’ program. Together, the team collaborated on two ongoing QRAs for petrochemical process plants on Jurong Island, namely Evonik Oil Additives and Chevron Oronite. The training by SAVE has enhanced the ESC team’s technical capacity to meet the ... growing scale and demand for complexity for QRAs in Singapore. At the same time, ESC and SAVE have also launched a joint investment to explore new business development opportunities in both onshore and offshore risk assessment, harnessing ESC’s regional network and understanding of regional regulatory developments to introduce SAVE’s rich European technical expertise to new markets in the Asia-Pacific region.

“Inogen Member, Antea Group and Earth Observation in the Black Sea Catchment”

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he Black Sea Catchment is internationally known as one of the worst examples for ecologically unsustainability and poor resource management, which has led to severe environmental, social and economic problems. The European FP7-project enviroGRIDS aimed to gather, store, distribute, analyze, visualize and disseminate crucial information regarding the environment of the Black Sea catchment. A state of the art ‘Grid-enabled Spatial Data Infrastructure’ (G-SDI) was built as a component of the ‘Global Earth Observation System of Systems’ (GEOSS) targeting the needs of the ‘Commission on the Protection of the Black Sea Against Pollution’ (BSC) and the ‘International Commission for the Protection of the Danube River’ (ICPDR). With 30 partners distributed in 15 countries, the enviroGRIDS project has contributed to the GEOSS by promoting the use of web-based services to share and process large amounts of

- Ng Wai Ling EnviroSolutions & Consulting [email protected]

Sand bags line the banks of a river.

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key environmental information in the Black Sea catchment. The final meeting of the enviroGRIDS project, was held in Genève, Switzerland at the end of March 2013. During the last 4 years Antea Group (Business Unit Water) was responsible for the dissemination and training including case studies regarding flooding concerns both in Hungary and Ukraine. This included:  General multi-lingual project flyer and mouse pad

 Four newsletters and policy briefings

 Publications, conference website, multi-media for the public and the creation of a Virtual Training centre on-line

 Report on thematic workshops series

 Policy makers involvement report, report on EndConference and Project “AfterLife Plan” For more information: - Annelies Beel [email protected] www.anteagroup.be

“Sylvain Rouzeau, AnteaGroup, France Appointed to Inogen Board of Directors” Countries, to sweeping EHS services for private, multinational companies. Recently, he led collaboration with Inogen Partner Environmental Centre IFPA to provide complex due diligence services to Renault in Russia.

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ntea Group continues to contribute to the direction of Inogen Environmental Alliance as Sylvain Rouzeau of Antea Group, France, accepts appointment to the board of directors. Rouzeau fills the vacant board seat resulting from the departure of Bob Karls, International Director Environment, Antea Group, USA. Karls is stepping down after serving 12 years as one of the original directors of Inogen. Rouzeau brings international consulting experience, with a particular European perspective, to his new role. As International Manager of Antea Group in France for the last three years, he led teams in French overseas territories expanding work from hydrology and hydrogeology consulting for public facilities in French-speaking African

“Sylvain’s many years of serving clients’ EHS needs on a global scale, along with his ability to manage the logistics of providing international support in Africa, Asia, and the widespread French Territories, make him an ideal candidate to serve in this role,” affirms Karls. A water engineer with 19 years of experience, Rouzeau started his career in Poland with a twoyear contract providing water and sanitation consulting for a professional training center. Since then, he has held progressive engineering positions providing expertise on international commercial development projects. As Antea Group’s International Director – Environment and a founding member of Inogen, Karls maintains his commitment to advance global client and Inogen relationships. “Serving on the board of this great organization for 12 years has been a privilege,” says Karls. “I

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have been honored to work with so many great professionals from around the world who are our Inogen Associates and GlobalNet members.” Existing Inogen Board Member, Gary Wisniewski, Antea Group, USA, is succeeding Karls as Chairman of the Board. Rouzeau fills the member seat vacated by Wisniewski. Today, Inogen’s reach is unparalleled, with partners and providers on every populated continent, 4,300 staff, and projects completed in more than 120 countries. [email protected] [email protected]

“Inogen Associate named as Woodland Trust's official carbon footprinting partner”

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nogen Associate, DeltaSimons Environmental Consultants, based in the UK, have become the official sustainability, resource efficiency and carbon footprinting partner of the Woodland Trust – the UK’s leading woodland conservation charity championing native woods and trees with more than 500,000 members and supporters and 50,000 acres in its care. Delta-Simons has worked with the Woodland Trust for many years, promoting and purchasing Woodland Carbon for clients who are seeking to remove their carbon emissions through the planting of new woodland projects. Under the formal partnership, Delta-Simons now supports the Woodland Trust's new and existing corporate clients with their wider sustainability needs such as calculating carbon footprints, energy auditing, reducing waste generation and sustainable procurement strategies.

looking to register for the Woodland Carbon programme – not only as a means to remove carbon, but to also create new woodland with additional tangible benefits to ecology, biodiversity and local Dave Bloor, for the Woodland Trust, said: “With Delta-Simons as a partner we’re now able to offer credible support to our corporate clients on a broad range of sustainability and carbon management issues which really enhances our relationship with our clients and helps them achieve their own corporate responsibility or resource efficiency goal”

communities. Mitigating emissions through planting trees in the UK is a really strong marketing message for companies and also provides additional ecological and social benefits. “Companies listed on the main market of the London Stock Exchange now have to report their greenhouse gas emissions going forward and I think the Government is sending out a strong statement that British businesses need to think more about sustainability.” -Dan Ellis

Gareth Pickles, MD of DeltaSimons, said it was a proud moment for the company. “Partnering with the Woodland Trust is a huge endorsement for Delta-Simons and we hope to encourage more companies to mitigate their emissions through Woodland Carbon projects.” Mr Bloor said increasing numbers of businesses were

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“Further Expansion for INOGEN Environmental Alliance”

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nogen® is delighted to welcome its newest associate member to the Alliance, EORM (Environmental, Health, Safety & Sustainability Consulting) based in San Jose, California, USA. With this new addition, Inogen® now operates in over 120 countries, with over 4,330 staff worldwide, providing an enhanced global delivery platform compared to conventional multinational EHS consulting companies. Founded in 1990, EORM employs 170 world class EHS professionals who provide consulting support to EORM’s clients from five Western US offices with significant international support to our multinational clients provided via established partners. Joining the Alliance will provide EORM with a broader reach into international locations that are currently not being served. EORM optimizes EHS and sustainability for both

industrial/commercial and public sector clients. They provide a comprehensive range of strategic, management and technical consulting solutions, assessment, compliance, risk management, reporting, training, communication and more. Their consultants possess strong technical and business acumen, vast industry and regulatory agency experience, and proven dedication to client satisfaction in disciplines such as environmental consulting & engineering, industrial hygiene and safety, ergonomics, sustainability, emergency preparedness, management systems and more. With more than 500 clients worldwide, industry expertise extends from high technology and manufacturing, to healthcare & life sciences, business services, utilities, food & beverage, all sectors of government and more.

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Paul Durkee, President of Inogen® is thrilled with EORM joining the Alliance; “We look to bring organisations into the Alliance who can enhance the geographical coverage of Inogen and bring additional unique service offerings for our customers. EORM are aligned to our quality systems and the Inogen Global Practice Standards and bring with them a real depth of experience and innovation. We are delighted to welcome EORM to the Alliance and are confident their addition brings even more strength to the unique and impressive Inogen® client offering.” -Paul Durkee Inogen Environmental Alliance [email protected]

“Maximizing Value for Global Divestments”

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ockwood Holdings, Inc., looking to divest their advanced ceramics business group, CeramTec, contacted Antea Group for a strategic and accelerated evaluation of the EHS status at each of their 18 facilities across 10 countries. CeramTec manufactures highperformance ceramic materials that serve automotive, electronics, industrial and medical end-markets. Due to the global scope and aggressive schedule of the project, Antea Group engaged eight (8) Inogen Associates and Global Net Members to help complete the environmental assessments and compliance audits in Brazil, China, Czech Republic, Germany, Malaysia, Mexico, Poland, South Korea, United Kingdom and United States. Each Associate brought the necessary local expertise and regulatory knowledge to identify EHS issues of material impact to asset value. At project completion, facility-specific reports were combined into one summary report that served as a

turn-key document used by Rockwood’s legal teams and prospective buyers. In June, Rockwood announced its CeramTec sale agreement with Cinven, a European private equity firm for €1.49 Billion. The transaction is expected to close third quarter 2013. “This transaction fits into Rockwood's long term strategy to create shareholder value. The people at CeramTec have been extremely successful in managing this business and they are ready for this next step in their growth,” says Mike Piacentino, Director of Environment, Safety and Risk Management, Rockwood Specialties. “The safety and environmental aspects of this transaction went smoothly due in part to Antea Group’s responsiveness in organizing the global teams to execute the project. Rockwood likes to move quickly, but speed must be coupled with accuracy and completeness. Antea Group was successful in providing us with quality reports that were extremely useful to the process within a tight timeline." “Rockwood has been a great partner client of Antea Group for over 24 years,” says Gary Wisniewski, CEO Antea Group USA. “We are proud to be their go-to resource for global

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transaction support solutions and to be able to provide them with such efficient and seamless service through Inogen Environmental Alliance.” -Mike Piacentino Since project completion, Rockwood has awarded Antea Group a similar potential divestment project in Germany as a result of the responsiveness and high quality of work performed. About Rockwood Holdings, Inc. Rockwood Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: ROC) is a leading global specialty chemicals and advanced materials company. Rockwood has a worldwide employee base of approximately 10,300 people and annual net sales of approximately $3.5 billion in 2012. Rockwood focuses on global niche segments of the specialty chemicals, pigments and additives and advanced materials markets. For more information on Rockwood, please visit www.rocksp.com. -Chrissy Piechoski Antea Group [email protected]

“Inogen Environmental Alliance, Inc & denkstatt host a successful 21st Inogen WorldView Conference

“Inogen Environmental Alliance, Inc & denkstatt host a successful 21st Inogen WorldView Conference”

supply chain thinking in areas where the enterprise’s own capabilities have reached their limits. On 10th April 2013, Inogen Associate denkstatt hosted one of the most successful Inogen Worldview conferences yet in Vienna, Austria. The Ovalhalle at the MuseumsQuartier opened its doors to share best practice with an international audience on “Managing Sustainability issues in the Value Chain” Managing sustainability issues in the value chain has a long and ineffective history. The conference attracted high numbers of delegates and high calibre speakers on the day including Christoph Neumayer, Director General of Federation of Austrian Industries as the Keynote, who presented and discussed "Industry as the driving force of change". Rudi Sueys, Group Environment Manager, Water & Sustainable Sourcing, Coca-Cola Europe, showed new ways of integrating suppliers’ businesses into one’s own sustainability strategy in his presentation on " Water sustainability in the supply chain of Coca-Cola". It was an impressive example of achieving higher targets by an integrated

The difficulties in international project business were presented by Birgit Forstnig-Errath, Director Collective Action, Siemens AG. She has been responsible for regaining credibility for Siemens after the company was publicly affected by internal cases of bribe and corruption. It was interesting to hear about her personal experiences in the multi-billion infrastructure business and the very practical approaches she took, which were only feasible through collaboration with

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competitors and suppliers. "Creating a fair market due compliance and stakeholder dialogue" was the title of her presentation. Other speakers at the event were as follows: Eugenio Longo, Manager Sustainability and EU Affairs, Borealis AG "Environmental and Sustainable Management in the supply chain"

 Lucas Klooster, Sustainability and New Business, ABN AMRO Bank N.V. and Stéphane LeGentil, Director Center of Excellence Energy Solutions EMEA, Johnson ...

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Controls, Inc. "Working with stakeholders to create shared value in energy and finance"

 Ramon Arratia, European Sustainability Director, Interface Europe Ltd "Product Sustainability: Strategic product development to increase the sustainability value for the customer".

 Patricia Vangheluwe, Consumer & Environmental Affairs Director, PlasticsEurope Brussels "Future Outlook: A sustainable world in 2030? The contributions of the plastics value chain".

 Franz Hölzl, Sustainability Manager, SPAR Österreichische Warenhandels-AG "Integration of Sustainability: What is the impact of sustainability in the supply chain of the European food retailer Spar AG?"

Paul Durkee, the new President and CEO of Inogen said "We were delighted to host Inogen's 21st WorldView Conference with our local Associate denkstatt in the beautiful and inspiring surroundings of the Museumsquartier Vienna. The topics of the presentations were really thought provoking and delegate feedback from the event extremely positive. We look forward to hosting the next WorldView in 2014. Apparently Vienna, recently elected as one of the leading Smart Cities, proved to be a suitable place for starting discussions on new ideas, cooperations and businesses.

“Inogen WorldView Conference – ‘Beyond Carbon Neutral'

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elta-Simons, once again undertook a carbon footprinting and offsetting exercise for this year’s WorldView Conference in April 2013. The purpose of the exercise was for Inogen to mitigate the environmental impact of their annual global gathering of Associates and Clients. The latest Greenhouse Gas (GHG) conversion factors were used to calculate the total carbon dioxide equivalent (CO2eq) emissions. Using these factors it was estimated that a total of approximately 70 tonnes of CO2eq were associated with delegate travel to and from the conference. The total calculated emissions have been offset by 200% by Inogen, and therefore awarded the Delta-Simons ‘Beyond

Carbon Neutral' seal of approval. The emissions have been offset using a combination of ‘not-for-profit' verified renewable energy schemes in association with The CarbonNeutral Company and carbon sequestration in the form of UK afforestation in association with the Woodland Trust. -Roger Griffiths [email protected]

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taying ahead of the game in terms of client engagement, Inogen is proud to announce the launch of its new website and refreshed corporate identity. If you would like to discuss any of or content of this newsletter please do not hesitate to contact us: - Paul Durkee, President & CEO [email protected]

- Christian Plas Denkstatt [email protected]

www.inogenet.com

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Inogen® to host Auto-Supplier Global Workshop WELCOME TO

Troy, Michigan “Inogen to participate in Auto-Supplier Global Workshop”

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he Inogen Alliance, in association with the Original Equipment Suppliers Association (OESA), will be hosting the Second Annual Global EHS Workshop for OESA members, October 8, 2013, in Troy, Michigan. OESA has over 350 member companies, consisting primarily of Tier I and Tier II automotive manufacturing companies - supplying parts, components and automotive systems to Original Equipment Makers (OEMs).

on EHS solutions and best practices available to the global manufacturing industry. Expected topics include changes in air emissions (Brazil, EU, China), Machine Guarding regulations, Industrial Emissions Directive (EU), and EHS Management System Best Practices.

The May 2012 Global Workshop drew attendees from multiple OESA member companies, representing over 1000 manufacturing facilities around the world. The 2013 attendance target is 30+ OESA member companies. This event is currently limited to OESA member companies and Inogen Associates. - Jerry Hincka Antea Group USA [email protected]

Leaders from each Inogen company will participate in presentation, panel and roundtable discussions, focused

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WELCOME TO

Inogen® Associates around the world Angel Ambiental Brazil Antea Group Belgium Burkina Faso Chad Colombia France The Netherlands USA Delta-Simons Environmental Consultants UK Denkstatt Austria Bulgaria Hungary Romania Serbia Slovakia Spain

DGE Group Denmark Lithuania Sweden

EnviroSolutions & Consulting Hong Kong Indonesia Malaysia Singapore

Environmental Centre IFPA Russia EORM USA

FIRA The Netherlands Peter J Ramsay & Associates Australia

HPC Group Austria Bulgaria France Germany Greece Italy Poland Spain

For full details of all our offices visit www.inogenet.com

CONTACT INOGEN®: t. +1 651 697 5220

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