If you ever saw pink fiberglas insulation, you probably saw some of Owens Corning's most famous product. When CEO Mike Thaman reivewed the Pickens Plan to reduce America's dependancy on foreign petroleum, he discovered a significant piece was missing: energy efficiency in both residential and commercial buildings consume 40 percent of energy in America.
That was something Thaman knew his company could help improve.
According to Frank O'Brien-Bernini, vice president and chief sustainabilty office for Owens Corning, of the 126 million homes in the US there's 80 million that are underinsulated.
"All buildings need a 30 to 50 percent more insulation increase depending on when they were built. Then you can offset 28 percent of the foreign fuel that we import today,” O’Brien-Bernini said in the Toledo Free Press . “That’s the opportunity in this. That all directly translates to greenhouse gas. We talk about 40 percent of the energy in the states; it’s about 43 percent of the greenhouse gas emissions in the United States come from operating buildings — that’s more than transportation, more than industry.”
Owens Corning began in Toledo in 1938. It invented and produces several products, such as fiberglass insulation, reinforcements, and shingles.
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