OAI’s Corporate Headquarters is responsible for the sales and marketing of all products except industrial microscopes and surgical products. During 2004, OAI continued to expand its environmental activities. OAI’s Irving (Dallas), Texas facility began the establishment of an Environmental Management System based on ISO 14001, including the tracking of the facility’s recycling activities and natural resource usage for the first time. Further, the Irving (Dallas), Texas facility, which contains the distribution, repair, service, customer training, technical support, and compliance functions of OAI’s Diagnostic Systems Group as well as some customer service and repair functions for medical products, continues to grow its recycling efforts, including the recycling of equipment, components and computer hardware. OAI’s Scientific Equipment Group increased its line of microscopes and objectives containing lead-free optics with the introduction of the CX2, IX2 and UIS2 products into the North American market. Hauppauge, New York Distribution Center (occupied primarily by OAI’s Scientific Equipment Group and OAI’s affiliate, Olympus Imaging America Inc. (“OIMA”)) continues to seek new ways of increasing its environmental activities. Among them is the transition to making product repairs with lead-free solder. OIMA has also implemented new software relating to its service order system, which has enabled it to reduce service order paper use by 40%. In addition, OAI maintained its focus on reducing waste in other ways, including the continued reduction of Styrofoam packing materials and the recycling of cardboard packing materials. Reduction of service order paper use by 40% Recycled cardboard New packaging material (recycled paper), which alleviated the use of styrofoam peanuts.