Our commitment to practice sustainability
ACME Panel is a family-owned company with a mission to build a sustainable future. By reducing our carbon footprint as a manufacturer and helping our customers reduce theirs, ACME Panel is the cleaner, more efficient structural insulated panel choice.
We will:
- Provide a product that helps reduce the carbon footprint of any construction project
- Help building owners reduce their total energy use
- Practice conservation in materials and energy usage to reduce pollution and consumption in the office and the factory
- Create our own energy for manufacturing and operations with solar panels
- Deliver our SIPs using bio-diesel for fuel when available
- Make environmental concerns an integral part of design, purchasing, practical decision-making, and operations
- Provide resources and training to staff to enable adoption of environmentally sound practices
- Regularly review the implementation of our sustainability goals to continually improve the environmental practices of the company
- Conduct an annual assessment of ACME Panel's adherence to our own policy and set annual improvement goals
Our daily business practices:
- Create building designs that reduce waste and conserve energy
- Recycle in the office: mixed paper products, cans, plastics, glass, office supplies, ink cartridges, and computer and electrical equipment
- Recycle in the factory: OSB, EPS
- Promote conservation by providing a kitchen: use plates and silverware instead of paper products and plastic utensils
- Turn off equipment when not in use
- Promote biking, walking, & car-pooling
- Buy local, green supplies
- Use compact fluorescent light bulbs and TCLP-compliant low mercury fluorescent lights
- Use renewable energy sources: solar power and bio-diesel
- Our factory is recycled, our furniture is re-used, even our staff are re-inventing themselves
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