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FUN FACT: If every U.S. home built before 1960 installed Fullback Insulated Siding, we would save over 1 million barrels of oil, 5 million tons of coal, and 800 million Mcf of natural gas EVERY YEAR! |
Life Cycle Analysis
Progressive Foam Technologies, Inc. has been actively pursuing strategies to reduce our environmental impact and increase the sustainability of our products and operations.
We have conducted a Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) in order to better understand how to improve our products. An LCA is a method for identifying the environmental impacts of a product, process or activity over its entire lifespan, including extraction and processing of raw materials, manufacturing, transportation and distribution, use, reuse, maintenance, recycling and final disposal.
To provide full transparency, we have submitted this data to the Building for Economic and Environmental Sustainability (BEES) software, a program designed by the National Institute of Standards and Technology(NIST) to compare building products on a life cycle basis. The Fullback® LCA has passed peer review and has been published.
In addition, we have conducted energy modeling with the National Association of Home Builder’s (NAHB) Research Center to determine the effect our product has on energy savings. The information and graphics contained in this document are based on the data from BEES and our energy modeling.
Overall Environmental Impact
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Test Reports: LCA Summary: Overview of LCA results for Insulated Vinyl Siding LCA Full Report: LCA results for Insulated Vinyl Siding (36 pgs) |