Product | Pre-consumer recycled content | Post-consumer recycled content |
DeisgnRail® & Feeney Trellis aluminum extrusions | 50% | |
Turnbuckles, End Fittings & Threaded Terminals | 25% | 75% |
1/8” Quick-Connect® Fittings | 45% | 55% |
3/16” & 1/4” Quick-Connect® Fittings | 50% | 50% |
Stainless Steel Nut Washers | 40% | 60% |
Stainless Steel Decorative End Caps and Beveled Washers | 35% | 65% |
CableRail Components and Architectural Rods | 96.7% |
Long Use Cycles
Our products are durable and have long use cycles, which reduces replacement costs and maximizes material usage efficiency.
Low Maintenance
Our products are very low maintenance and require no treatments, stains, solvents, varnishes or preservatives that may contain contaminating chemicals.
Durability
Our aluminum products are strong, yet lightweight, using less raw material and allowing easier handling and lower shipping costs.
Energy Efficient
Our Feeney Trellis kits, as well as CableRail cable assemblies, can be used to create energy-saving trellis and landscape shading panels and partitions that support cooling foliage in the summer, yet allow maximum sunlight and warmth during the dormant winter months.
Solar Facility
On January 19, 2011, our manufacturing facility in Oakland, California, switched on a new 380 panel (over 5,000 square foot) photovoltaic solar array that can produce as much as 90 kilowatts direct current (DC) of clean, sun-generated electricity. It’s enough “juice” to potentially offset the facility’s entire energy needs.
Fully Automated
Our Oakland plant utilizes a fully automated, computerized machining center programmed to continue running and producing high-precision parts after hours during non-peak electric usage periods and without the need of lighting or technicians.
Little Waste
The powder-coating facility we use in Tekamah, Nebraska, features a new, state-of-the-art powder-coating line that emits no V.O.C.s or heavy metal waste, uses a non-chromium pre-treatment wash, and reclaims 93% of the wastewater via a reverse-osmosis membrane filtration system.
Recycling
We have an ongoing company recycling program that includes paper, cardboard, cans, bottles and all residual metal machining shavings.
Green Shipping
Our outgoing shipments use heavy duty cardboard boxes that can be reused or recycled, and our packing peanuts are made from biodegradable, non-toxic cornstarch that quickly dissolves in water and can be reused or composed. They are even FDA approved.
To discuss how our products can help you earn LEED points for your upcoming projects,
please give us a call at 1-800-888-2418.
*Pre‐consumer materials are generated by manufacturers and processors, and may consist of scrap, trimmings and other by‐products never used in the consumer market.
*Post‐consumer material is an end product that has completed its life cycle as a consumer item and would otherwise have been disposed of as a solid waste. “Post‐consumer materials” indicates the product was made with these materials recycled by residents and other businesses.