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.
Quanex recognizes the importance of contributing positively to a more sustainable future. During 2025, as part of the integration of the Tyman business, we reviewed and updated our ambitions, goals and plans with a new 10-year sustainability roadmap out to 2035. Our roadmap covers three pillars on products and people.
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Our new sustainability goals include:
- Reducing our operational carbon footprint (Scope 1 and 2 emissions) by 48.5% by 2030 (1.5C aligned pathway) and 62% by 2035 vs a 2022 baseline
- Reducing the carbon impacts of our purchased raw materials (Scope 3 emissions) by 28.3% by 2030 (Well Below 2C pathway) and 40% by 2035 vs a 2022 baseline
- Growing revenues of products with sustainable attributes Year-on-Year
- Eliminating single-use plastic packaging around our products by 2030
- Zero Waste to Landfill by 2030.
Sustainability performance metrics can be found here and revenues from our products with sustainability attributes here. Our carbon-related targets will be submitted to the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi) for validation in 2026.
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.
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. Note: since the publication of this report in January 2026 with data covering the period 2022-2024, we have improved the quality of the data disclosed as part of our preparations to submit our carbon targets to the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi) for validation. Updated metrics can be found here.
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