Dow Plans Program for Carbon-Neutral Silicones in Building Façades
This carbon-offset program can help decrease the environmental impact of buildings and achieve better green building certification ratings.
Dow recently announced its plan for a 2022 launch of what the company calls the world’s first commercially available carbon-neutrality program for silicone materials used for structural glazing, insulating glass, and weather sealing. Selected DOWSIL™ materials will include PAS 2060-certified carbon certificates from Dow’s backward-integrated siloxane productions and carbon reduction investments. This carbon-offset program can help decrease the environmental impact of buildings and achieve better green building certification ratings.
“The commercial introduction of our carbon-neutrality program for DOWSIL™ Silicones for building facades represents a true evolution in silicone carbon-neutrality,” said Markus Plettau, Dow’s global segment leader for building facades. “Aligned with the industry efforts towards developing net-carbon-zero buildings to reduce CO2 emissions, Dow is leading the way in decreasing the embodied carbon present in construction materials.”