<p style="text-align: center;"><img src="/ueditor/php/upload/image/20250812/1754965020558122.png" title="1754965020558122.png" alt="1.png"/></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Earlier this year, Gates received the 2025 Environmental Initiative SEAL Awards for its innovative Chain-to-Belt initiative. With it, Gates is redefining industry standards by offering synchronous belts as a superior alternative to traditional roller chains. Gates is proud to be recognized as one of the winners of the prestigious SEAL Awards, which celebrates global leaders in Sustainability, Environmental Achievement, and Leadership. This honor highlights the company’s commitment to impactful environmental initiatives that drive lasting positive change and positions Gates among other leading global organizations.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Matt Harney, chairperson and founder of the SEAL Awards said, “2025 represents our ninth SEAL Business Sustainability Award event. This year’s award recipients follow a 9-year trendline of greater impact materiality and deeper granularity. Across all industries and geographies, companies are going deep and granular—into materials, chemistry, processes, R&amp;D, supply chains and more—to generate sustainability improvements.” Industrial operations have historically relied on numerous roller chain drives, creating multiple opportunities for conversion to belt drives. Gates is on a mission to replace roller chain systems with their cutting-edge synchronous belt technology. To prove this initiative is both highly viable and impactful, they conducted a third-party comprehensive analysis comparing the environmental impact of the Gates Poly Chain GT Carbon belts to traditional roller chain systems. The study found that the Gates belt driven systems have a potential reduction of 90 percent in CO2 equivalent emissions or more over a 10-year period compared to roller chain systems.</span></p>