Our Commitment to Sustainability

At Duratherm, we are continuously identifying, prioritizing, implementing, and monitoring all opportunities to improve our operational efficiencies in order to reduce our carbon footprint. We are committed to strengthening our role as a concerned corporate citizen of our community.

The logistics of sustainability is an important effort, with a payoff at the end. In the rush of day-to-day business, our effort at sustainability has been one of the most fulfilling and satisfying aspects of our business. It helps our employees, our leadership team and our clients. It enhances every project and enriches the communities we serve. Sustainability means better business. It brings the highest technologies into our production and management systems. It also increases awareness of our company’s impact and increases efficiencies.

Our aim to reduce our waste to zero, carbon neutrality, automation, and enormous energy cost savings all have given us a competitive advantage that grows every year. And in many cases, our commitment to sustainability has increased our customers’ satisfaction. We assist them in achieving the ratings and credits to qualify for tax savings and other benefits through our knowledge of lumber sourcing, certifications and LEED standards.

• Durabrique – a compressed log of wood from waste products that is an excellent, clean-burning briquette for wood stoves and wood boilers. In the case of Duratherm itself, the Durabrique initiative supplements the building's traditional heating systems, reducing the use of heating oil by 10,000 gallons a year.
• Company-wide composting and recycling
• Using low-VOC finish products, minimizing the use of solvents
• High-efficiency, variable-speed compressors that sense the demand for air,
  reducing overall compressor use by 50 percent
• Installation of energy-efficient T-8 fixtures
• A state-of-the-art technology finish room incorporating SolarWall® technology to provide clean, pre-heated air from the sun