Environmental Policy Statement
Quanex Building Products Corporation (“Quanex” or the “Company”) is committed in all respects to acting in an environmentally responsible manner and playing its part contributing to a more sustainable world through its people, operations and products. The Company is committed to sustainability excellence and continual improvement in its environmental performance through the goals set out in its sustainability roadmap and reporting its progress externally on an annual basis.
Our sustainability program is overseen by our Board of Directors and Sustainability Leadership Council. The VP Operations Excellence has overall accountability to the CEO on the Company’s environmental performance with support from the VP Global EHS for ensuring compliance with local environmental laws/regulations and a VP Global Sustainability for keeping this policy up to date and providing direction on its sustainability strategy. Each division President is responsible for the environmental performance within their business, including providing effective leadership, allocating requisite resources and ensuring the requirements of this policy are met, along with the achievement of companywide goals and maintenance of effective environmental management systems.
Achieving excellence in our environmental performance is a collective responsibility and leaders at all levels are expected to engage their teams to identify opportunities for improvement and recognize good practices. Every Quanex employee is responsible for following the Company’s environmental procedures and reporting any environmental incidents to their line manager/supervisor. All Quanex businesses commit to:
- Applying best available techniques to prevent pollution, protect the natural world, promote circularity and comply with all environmental laws, regulations, permits and other standards applicable to their products and operations
- Allocating sufficient resources to ensure the effective implementation of this policy
- Procuring raw materials, components and packaging from responsible and sustainable sources, as well as working with their supply chain partners to minimise their impacts across the value chain
- Consulting stakeholders on environmental issues to identify priorities for action
- Embedding sustainability and lifecycle thinking into product development processes to create new products and services with improved environmental performance in their manufacture and/or in use
- Providing information on the environmental impacts of products and collaborate with their customers to help them meet their sustainability requirements and goals
- Addressing the carbon footprint of their operations by optimizing their use of energy through energy efficiency actions, sourcing renewable electricity and deploying renewable energy technologies
- Minimising their impact on water resources by implementing water efficient practices, prioritising areas of highest use and/or regions with high risk of water scarcity
- Reusing, recovering and/or recycling hazardous and non-hazardous wastes in their production processes
- Raising environmental awareness among their workforce through information, training and education to encourage their contribution to a more sustainable future
- Identifying and managing the environmental risks and opportunities associated with all major business decisions, including due diligence during acquisitions and divestments
- Maintaining data collection systems to track the environmental performance of products and operations to enable the Company to report its progress publicly.
We strive to manage our business in a way that minimizes our environmental footprint, and we employ a Quanex-wide Vice President of Global Sustainability to help guide our efforts in this regard.
Our PVC extrusion business recycles almost all of its own scrap vinyl and has repurchased and recycled scrap from its customers for many years. Recently, our cabinets business has partnered with several third parties to recycle or repurpose much of the sawdust and wood chip waste that results from our manufacturing process, often as animal bedding. Waste sawdust is also used as a renewable energy biofuel to fire our drying kilns. Throughout the business, we look for similar opportunities to avoid contributing waste to already-overburdened landfills and waste disposal sites, and we utilize continuous improvement and six-sigma techniques to help improve quality and reduce waste both at our own facilities and those of our customers and suppliers.
We believe that access to safe water and sanitation is a fundamental human right. As such, we take steps to reduce our water usage and waste outflows to minimize the impact of our operations on any water sources or freshwater ecosystems that may be near our facilities, and we expect the same of our suppliers.
Another important avenue to protect our environment is the reduction or elimination of waste, especially hazardous waste. Our locations are committed to continuous improvement in reducing waste through recycling programs, improved manufacturing processes and using waste products as alternative fuels.
Quanex’s current sustainability goals are detailed below. These goals are under review following the Company’s purchase of the Tyman business in 2024 and will be updated with the release of a new 10-year sustainability strategy for the combined business, expected for release later in 2025.
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15% Reduction:
Non-Renewable Electricity
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10% Reduction:
Non-Hazardous Waste
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35% Reduction:
Carbon Fuels Usage
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10% Reduction:
Hazardous Waste
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20% Reduction:
Natural Gas Usage
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20% Reduction:
Water Usage
Following the acquisition of the Tyman business in August 2024, Quanex has harmonized its approach to the identification and assessment of climate-related risks and opportunities impacting its business.
Updated disclosures for the new Quanex business on climate-related risks and opportunities can be found here in our Climate-Related Financial Risk Report. This report meets the requirements set out in California’s Senate Bill (SB) 261 (Stern, Stats. 2023, ch. 383, codified in Health and Safety Code section 38533). Our reporting, on a consolidated basis, covers all our operating entities worldwide and is aligned to the TCFD reporting framework.
Under the leadership of our VP Global EHS and our internal legal team, and with the participation of auditors from many levels of the organization, we maintain a robust internal audit program. We conduct multiple on-site audits every year, with audit locations determined annually by the VP of Global EHS in conjunction with the legal team. We use standardized audit protocols that ensure our facilities meet a consistent set of standards regardless of their location. Upon completion of each audit, any required corrective actions are developed in conjunction with the plant’s leadership team. We then utilize our online task alert system to ensure that all corrective actions are completed in a timely manner. Finally, our VP Global EHS verifies completion of all tasks within the prescribed time period.
We strive to develop products that have positive environmental impacts in use and in terms of how they are formulated. Across our businesses, we develop products that are specifically designed to improve energy efficiency in buildings. Many of our vinyl extrusions and insulating glass spacer products, for example, exhibit world-class performance in energy efficiency and are used around the world in LEED-certified and other energy-efficient buildings.
Our dedication to sustaining the environment is evident at all levels of our business, and we will continue to strengthen those efforts in the future. Around the world, we will work to seize available opportunities to reduce our environmental impact and to continue our development of products and technologies that are energy-efficient and with lower environmental impacts.
Information on this page was last updated: 01/08/2026