2024 SUSTAINABILITY REPORT
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Increasing the Recycled Content of Our Other Raw Materials
Supply Chain
two wood decks to match the 25-year warranty of a deck built with Trex Enhance® decking. By replacing traditional wood decking, Trex helps reduce the demand for commercial forestry, supporting biodiversity and ecosystem health. Since January 1, 2023, all Trex composite deck boards sold for residential use come with limited warranties of 25, 35, or 50 years. Our proprietary shell technology protects against common weathering issues such as fading, staining, scratching, and mold. To ensure our products perform as promised, we rigorously test them both internally and externally during the design phase. We also obtain third-party verification to ensure compliance with International Building Code standards.
The impact has been transformative: dimensional variations have significantly decreased, manufacturing waste has been reduced, yield has improved, and product quality has reached new levels of consistency. Moreover, this innovation has enabled us to reallocate resources from manual inspections to proactive quality audits, fostering greater efficiency and driving continuous improvement. It has also opened the door to exploring many other in-line applications, paving the way for future advancements in our processes.
Trex aims to maintain a high-quality, resilient supply chain comprising partner companies that comply with all applicable environmental, labor, and human rights legislation. Our Vendor and Customer Code of Conduct and Ethics (Code) outlines our expectations for suppliers and customers. All suppliers must comply with these standards. We conduct risk assessments to determine the likelihood of vendors having difficulty in complying with our environmental, social, or quality standards. In cases where we assess there to be significant risks, we require new vendors to complete a virtual self-assessment of compliance with our Code. Self-assessments may be followed by operating facility tours and on-site audits. Trex sources the majority of its raw materials from suppliers located in the U.S. and Canada. We purchase specific components for Trex products from overseas vendors when necessary. When sourcing from outside North America, we contract with a third-party specialist firm to audit these companies, identify any code compliance issues, and ensure problems are remediated before they are onboarded.
Our wide range of high-performance, low-maintenance outdoor living products includes composite and aluminum railing kits and systems. We have taken another step forward in our commitment to circularity by increasing the recycled content of aluminum and PVC used in our railing products. In 2024, we increased the recycled content of our aluminum railing components to an average 78% compared to about 40% in 2023. We also use PVC for railing components and started incorporating recycled PVC, totaling 682,000 pounds in 2024. LOGO USAGE
Sustainability Certifications
Recycled and reclaimed materials used in Trex products position them as a preferred choice for customers seeking Leadership in Energy and Environment Design™ (LEED®) certification and International Code Council Evaluation Service (ICC-ES) validation. Our decking has been validated by ICC-ES as conforming to U.S. National Green Building Standards® for each category assessed. Use of Trex decking can add up to four points to a project on LEED® rating assessments.
Leveraging Technology to Maximize Yield
Designing Products That Last Longer and Use Fewer Materials
Technology is integral to optimizing production and ensuring outstanding product quality. In 2021, we introduced an advanced In-line Measuring System, fully deployed across all decking production lines by 2023. This cutting-edge system continuously monitors dimensional stability in real time.
Since launching our Transcend® product line in 2010, Trex has continued to innovate with products built to withstand weather and the test of time. Trex decks last at least twice as long as traditional wood decks. In fact, it would take a minimum of
MORE CIRCULAR RAILING We are proud to share that, through close collaboration with our suppliers, we have successfully increased the recycled content of the aluminum used in our railing products. The recycled aluminum content from our suppliers ranges from 30%-100%. Overall, the aluminum we purchase has an average recycled content of 78% by weight.
ABOUT LEED® AND ICC-ES
The U.S. Green Building Council’s LEED® green building program is the world’s most widely used and was created as a leadership standard defining best practices for healthy, high-performing green buildings. ICC-ES is a subsidiary of the International Code Council (ICC) that evaluates building products, materials, and systems and validates compliance with building codes and standards, including sustainable building standards.
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