OWENS CORNING SHOWS IMPROVEMENTS IN SUSTAINABILITY REPORT

publication date: Jul 31, 2008

Owens Corning is on track to meeting its sustainability goals, according to its recently released sustainability report.

The company, which manufactures building materials and glass fiber reinforcements, is committed to greening its processes and products by improving its operations to reduce the company’s impact on the environment, offering green products with improved life-cycle impacts, and promoting energy efficiency in its buildings.

The report states that the company met its goals for 2012 in the area of reducing particulate matter and water and nitrogen oxides. Areas that still need improvement are volatile compounds and greenhouse gas emissions, but according to the report, they are on track. The report also includes information on social impacts the company has made in its communities.

"We define sustainability as meeting the needs of the present without compromising the world that we leave to the future," said Mike Thaman, Owens Corning’s chairman and CEO.
In 2007, Owens Corning named long-time employee Frank O’Brien-Bernini to the newly created position of chief sustainability officer.

“This report accurately reflects our achievements, while also showing both ourselves and the outside world areas where we can do better,” O’Brien-Bernini said.

The report can be downloaded at www.owenscorning.com/sustainability. Hard copies of the report, printed with soy-based ink on recycled paper and produced through wind-generated energy, are also available.