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AZEK
Building
Products
Heavily recycled content means
lighter environmental impact.
AZEK Building Products develops premium, low-maintenance
exterior building products. Available worldwide, the company’s
product lines include AZEK Deck, Rail, Trim, Moulding, Porch,
Pavers and Adhesives, as well as capped wood composite
decking and railing under the TimberTech name. AZEK Building
Products (https://azek.com/) is a division of The AZEK Company,
headquartered in Chicago. COURTESY OF AZEK BUILDING PRODUCTS
A S THE LOW IMPACT DEVELOPMENT (LID) water Rain guard. If you’re wondering where your old tires went, just look below your
management approach continues to become a norm,
projects involving retrofits include a difficult task:
applying LID practices to fully developed urban areas.
There’s no disagreement by ocials at the Living
stormwater runoff in 2017.
City Campus (LCC) at Kortright in feet, where more than 1.6 million became composite pavers to help control
Vaughn, Ontario. Operated by the “AZEK owns proprietary,
Toronto & Region Conservation state-of-the-art They’re an Eco-Leader because...
Authority (TRCA), LCC serves manufacturing that turns ■ AZEK Building Products’ proprietary, evolutionary manufacturing process
as an educational hub where recycled plastics into high- transforms recycled plastics into high-performance materials that manufacturers
people gather to learn research, can readily work with.
They’re an Eco-Leader because... demonstrate and become inspired performance materials, ■ The company has strengthened its commitment to reduce plastic and rubber
allowing us to accept
by technologies and practices
■ ASSA ABLOY ensures suppliers are audited for their practices, products are that help build sustainable city pollution every year, with its key product TimberTech on a path towards a 100
materials that most percent recycled core.
designed with efficiency in mind, and manufacturing sites are reviewing their regions. But implementing LID ■ AZEK Composite Pavers are made from up to 95 percent recycled materials. In
overall carbon footprints each year. This is done in addition to achievement of measures for stormwater runo manufacturers cannot 2017, 49 million gallon-sized containers and more than 1.6 million tires were used
industry standards such as ISO 14001. were dicult due to limited space work with.” to make the product.
■ Electrified solutions have been designed and delivered to use less energy around the facility. Bruce Stanhope, vice ■ AZEK Building Products decking saves more than 100,000 trees annually as a
and, in some cases, can be offered as a complete regenerative product— TRCA opted to test a variety of president of research and sustainable alternative to wood decks and house trim.
pulling no power from the grid. stormwater management methods
■ Exterior opening solutions offer superior protection against the within the campus parking lot, development, AZEK
transmission of heat and cold, providing efficiency, savings and overall load including the use of permeable Building Products examined, as well as good water quality.”
and footprint reduction. pavement. AZEK Permeable The Sustainable Technologies Evaluation Program (STEP), which
■ Door and accessory products have been GREENGUARD Gold certified, Pavers, made with up to 95 percent recycled tires and various plastics, is conducting studies on the use of permeable pavements, concurs
demonstrating low levels of chemical off-gassing—important for the health were installed in a 1,200-square-foot section of the parking area. with AZEK. “Not only are these permeable alternatives as strong as
of people inside the built environment. According to AZEK officials, ongoing tests have evaluated conventional types of pavement, but when properly installed and
■ As a way to support the greater demand for human health and product the pavers’ effectiveness for runoff and water quality control, maintained, they can last for over 20 years,” STEP notes. “[And] by
transparency, hundreds of ASSA ABLOY products offer information maintenance needs and how they endure Ontario’s climate. Two providing opportunities to inltrate stormwater, these technologies
regarding their environmental and human health impacts, in the form of years later, they have “shown excellent runo reduction, with the help to remove pollutants, replenish groundwater resources and
EPDs, HPDs and Declare labels. highest surface inltration rate of all the interlocking paver products reduce the risk of ooding and stream channel erosion.”
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