How we make it greener Cascadia Clip®

Raw materials acquisition

The Cascadia Clip® is manufactured in North America, using resins and fiberglass rovings from domestic and foreign suppliers. These chemically inert materials are combined through pultrusion, creating a thermoset fiberglass that won't creep, sag, or decay over its 200-year modelled service life.

Transportation

The Cascadia Clip® is nested in its packaging, maximizing the volume of the standard shipping boxes and minimizing wasted space when shipping. Standard wooden pallets received from various vendors are reused for outbound orders, reducing the amount of new materials needed for product shipping.

Additional environmental information

Installation and maintenance
The clip system is mounted to a building's exterior using handheld power tools, which are expected to produce negligible impacts. Once installed, the Cascadia Clip® produces no additional impacts over the use phase, since it is expected to last the life of the building, requiring no replacements or maintenance.

Disposal
The Cascadia Clip® reaches the end of its useful life when a building's exterior is replaced or demolished. While the clip system can be reused, or its rail components recycled, it is most likely to be sent with demolition waste to a landfill. However, transportation to a landfill (100 miles) and the landfilling of fiberglass and steel only generates 0.59% more impacts on top of the cradle-to-gate global warming potential.