CertainTeed Marks Sustainability Improvements at Georgia Facility
Saint-Gobain North America, through its building products subsidiary CertainTeed LLC, announced the opening of its newest CertainTeed Architectural facility in Conyers, Georgia. The plant will be co-located with finishing partner Quality Powder Coating (QPC), allowing Saint-Gobain to drastically reduce the distance its products must travel to finalize production, reducing its CO2 emissions by over 50 million pounds per year.
The announcement comes as the company continues to implement its global Grow and Impact strategy, which includes ambitious environmental sustainability goals, such as achieving carbon neutrality by 2050. A sister site to CertainTeed Architectural’s existing facility in nearby Norcross, the Conyers site will produce CertainTeed’s High Profile SeriesTM, Terminus, and HeartFelt® lines. Currently, the Norcross facility ships its products to QPC’s location in Dallas, Texas for coating and finishing. By co-locating CertainTeed and QPC together in Conyers later this year, Saint-Gobain will save over 211,000 truck miles per year, which equates to a reduction of over 50 million pounds of CO2 emissions annually.