Correct Building Products® Takes Governor’s Carbon Challenge

Company Furthers Commitment to Reduce Greenhouse Gases

BIDDEFORD, Maine. (April 22, 2007) – Correct Building Products, LLC announced today that they will participate in the State of Maine’s Governor’s Carbon Challenge (see editors’ notes). Maine-based Correct Building Products, maker of CorrectDeck composite building products, joins with over 50 groups in a statewide effort to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and to manufacture sustainable, recyclable building products for residential and light commercial use.

Energy usage at the Biddeford manufacturing plant is down 20 percent due to a light fixture replacement project, even with one additional line running. Water usage is down 30 percent with the change to a central vacuum system. The plant’s boiler is fueled by natural gas, a notably efficient fuel. Waste disposal is down from five to two times a week due to the in-house recycling program.

“In addition to the changes at our plant, we’re doing our best to alter our in-house processes, too, said Martin Grohman, president of Correct Building Products. ”We’re working hard to promote recycling and to reduce the usage of unsustainably-harvested tropical hardwoods,” To aid in future recycling, all CorrectDeck products are printed with their resource content. The products are also all free of polyvinyl chloride and can be safely incinerated.

In addition to recycling and reprocessing all manufacturing scrap at the factory, Correct Building Products has implemented a pilot program to collect jobsite scrap, which can also be made into new decking. “Composite decking is quite recyclable – it contains no thermosetting materials and is rot-resistant,” added Grohman. “In fact, recycling of composites is routinely done.”

Correct Building Products, LLC has won awards from and is affiliated with other organizations committed to preserving and protecting the environment:

• Two-time winner of Maine’s Governor’s Waste Reduction Award
• Member: Maine Made & Green Program
• Member: Corporate Conservation Council of Maine
• Supporter: USGBC & LEED programs
• Supporter: The Nature Conservancy

Editors’ Notes:
In 2001, the New England Governors and Eastern Canadian Premiers signed an agreement to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to 1990 levels by 2010 and to 10% below those levels by 2020, with the goal of an overall 75% to 80% decrease from 2003 levels. In 2003, Maine became the first state to enact these goals into statute, directing the state’s Department of Environmental Protection to develop agreements with businesses and non-profit organizations to accomplish these goals.