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Active Step, Active Kid is a program aimed to promote the healthy life of associates by walking to raise funds for the 3rd Adream Center in China. Each participant set the goal of walking at least 5,000 steps per day which is tracked through a digital platform. In total, 8,031 Danaher associates, friends and family joined and donated more than 47,687 times each day. Associates walked a total of 568,616,400 steps and successfully raised RMB 184,075.24 toward the Adream Center.

The Government of India has made a commitment to clean up the Ganja River. The India Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) has set new wastewater discharge standards to help accelerate the construction of new municipal wastewater treatment plants. The TrojanUV3000Plus™ is currently being installed at the Varanasi Sewage Treatment Plant in Uttar Pradesh, India to disinfect 120 MLD (5,000 m3/hr) of wastewater before it discharges into the river. UV has significant cost, safety and environmental benefits compared to chemical (chlorine) disinfection and has been proven effective in thousands of installations globally.

Videojet Technologies, a global leader in coding, marking and variable data printing solutions, has been recognized by the National Association for Business Resources (NABR) as one of the 2017 Best and Brightest Companies to Work For®. The competition identifies and recognizes companies that deliver exceptional human resource practices and an impressive commitment to their employees.

At Danaher, the importance of Diversity & Inclusion is anchored in one of our core values: The Best Team Wins. To achieve our goal of winning as the best team, we once again partnered with the Society of Women Engineers (SWE) to attract, recruit, and engage a diverse talent base to help us better serve our customers. This year from October 25-27, associates from our operating companies participated at the SWE national meeting in Austin, Texas. The team worked tirelessly to expand our future funnel of talented, high performing associate engineers by representing Danaher and our operating companies.

Pantone, a wholly owned subsidiary of X-Rite, Incorporated, and provider of professional color language standards and digital solutions, announced PANTONE 18-3838, Ultra Violet, as the Pantone Color of the Year for 2018. A dramatically provocative and thoughtful purple shade, PANTONE 18-3838 Ultra Violet communicates originality, ingenuity, and visionary thinking that points us towards the future.