Better Technology… Better For The Environment
 

	NichiProducts™ differ in several ways than other fiber cement products in the market today. Beginning with the raw materials, NichiProducts consist of over 60% post-consumer by-product and recycled materials.
	NichiProducts™ contain 55% fly ash, a post-consumer waste material generated at coal-burning, electric generating facilities; and by doing so, Nichiha annually diverts over 66,000 tons of fly ash from ending up in landfills.
	Using fly ash also improves our products performance characteristics; allowing for a stronger more durable exterior cladding that is lighter in weight and easier to handle and install.
	Pulp is also a material used in the composition of NichiProducts™. Nichiha uses over 3,000 tons annually of post-consumer newspaper waste that would normally end up in landfills.
	The Nichiha manufacturing facility in Macon, GA, includes an on-site water treatment plant. This facility not only recycles 95% of the water used in the manufacturing process, it treats the 5% water discharged back into the system.
	Using local material resources (90% of our materials are less than 200 miles from our facility), reduces the environmental impact and carbon emissions of long-haul transportation.

At Nichiha, our mission for over 50 years has been to utilize the natural resources entrusted to us with the utmost environmental diligence and which maximizes recyclability, all in an effort to reduce our world wide impact on the environment; while maintaining the highest product performance standards. This is the world wide environmental vision for Nichiha. We not only embrace this vision but continually seek ways to improve our processes that will further reduce our impact on the environment. The responsible and respectful stewardship of our natural resources has always been and will always continue to be at the forefront of our corporate objectives.