reducing, reusing, and recycling

Going green isn’t just a fad, it’s a near-future necessity. In fact, when shopping for products for your home, an increasing number of homebuyers are searching for product suppliers who are making energy-efficiency a priority.

 At Pacific Architectural Building Products, we know that energy efficiency is directly related to utility bills. We also understand that the windows and doors of a home directly impacts the environment within. Therefore, as the country's leading supplier of U.S. manufactured exterior windows and doors, we're on the front line of defense all year 'round - responsibly supplying beautiful exterior solutions that stand up to the elements which threaten to effect your budget.

 Likewise, as you aim to use household resources wisely, Pacific Architectural Building Products is committed to being a conscientious partner - helping you to have easy access to the essential data and details you need to make informed, cost-effective choices for your family when it comes to the U.S. manufacturer’s leading solutions, now available in Australia.

Effectively reducing and reusing waste in manufacturing processes and recycling material reduces the need for “virgin” (i.e., never-before-used) raw materials, a goal that often makes both environmental and economic sense.

The challenge is to eliminate as much waste as possible while productively reusing the waste that cannot be eliminated, thereby reducing our costs and the amount of material sent to landfills. Processes can be changed to more efficiently use raw materials, thereby reducing the by products left over as waste. Products can be engineered to use manufacturing waste and waste from finished products – wood, paper, plastics, etc.

For example:

• Pacific’s wood products’ supplier plants are designed to use almost all the wood purchased as raw material. Wood that is not manufactured into I-Joists or laminated beams typically ends up in plywood or chipped and shipped to paper mills as raw material for their products. Sawdust and plytrim is either used in particleboard or burned for fuel. Bark is either burned on-site in boilers or veneer drying system, sold for fuel at other mills or sold for landscape materials. Most of the ash generated from burning of wood fuels ends up as an agricultural soil amendment. Very little of the original raw material ends up in a landfill.

1,900,000 acre manufacturing plant. Our window manufacturer’s parent company sustainably manages 1.9 million acres of timberland. They are the largest millwork producer in the U.S. and the second largest timber company. But their size is only a small part of the story. They plant 7 million new trees every single year. So 100 years from now, our forests will have more trees – and bigger trees – than today.

As a proud part of this family-owned, environmentally-committed company, Sierra Pacific is the only window company that maintains continuous quality control from the moment their tree seeds are planted until their beautiful timber windows are produced, approved and delivered to you.