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For more information contact: For immediate release: Michael B. Loughery, CertainTeed July 18, 2012 (610) 341-7328 [email protected] www.certainteed.com/pressroom

CertainTeed Partners with Michigan Distributor to Expand Vinyl Siding Recycling Progra m

(Valley Forge, Pa.) – Through a strong commitment to environmental responsibility, CertainTeed Corporation and Eikenhout, Inc. have partnered to expand vinyl siding recycling efforts at each of the Michigan distributor’s seven locations. In conjunction with a regional recycler, the new program offers contractors easy, environmentally friendly options for disposal of vinyl siding. Each location now features a large recycling container, and for large construction projects, job-site containers are available upon request at no cost to contractors.

“Through our partnerships with building product distributors, we are taking back and recycling as much vinyl as possible, ultimately diverting these materials from being landfilled,” says Brian Kirn, manager of product marketing for the CertainTeed Siding Products Group. “We are contributing to a greener tomorrow and fulfilling our commitment of reducing environmental impact over the entire life cycle of our siding products.”

Eikenhout has been recycling vinyl siding since 1996 at their corporate headquarters in Grand Rapids. However, management wanted to broaden the program. By partnering with CertainTeed, they were able to expand their recycling capacity to all company locations, including Lansing, Mt. Pleasant, Holland, Traverse City, Saginaw and Petosky. Each recycling partnership forged by CertainTeed meets stringent quality guidelines. Recycled materials, including scraps from job sites, vinyl siding distributors and other post consumer sources, are integrated into the manufacturing process and verified by a third party auditor on a quarterly basis. News Release Eikenhout Recycling Program – Page 2 of 3

“CertainTeed provides everything it can to promote a greener vinyl industry, and it is our mutual goal to collect all the vinyl siding waste rather than have it go to a landfill,” says Aaron Sprague, director of marketing for Eikenhout. “Now, any money garnered from recycling will go towards promoting the recycling program to our customers.”

Eikenhout joins CertainTeed’s network of more than 200 vinyl siding recycling centers throughout the United States. Additionally, CertainTeed has streamlined its operations to reduce carbon emissions and reprocess all vinyl scrap, resulting in near-zero waste manufacturing facilities. The majority of the company’s product lines contain recycled content. In fact, CertainTeed® CedarBoards™ Double 6-inch Clapboard Insulated Vinyl Siding contains the highest recycled content of any vinyl siding product on the market today.

As the North American leader in siding products, CertainTeed offers Freedom of Choice™ that no other manufacturer can provide, with the most comprehensive spectrum of profiles and colors of polymer shakes, fiber cement siding, insulated siding, vinyl siding and trim for finishing touches. The company actively pursues strategies to reduce environmental impact and is the first siding manufacturer to issue and publish third-party validated life cycle assessments (LCA) for its vinyl and fiber cement siding product lines. The LCA carefully examines all environmental impacts—from raw materials and manufacturing, to transportation and use, to disposal and/or recycling—gaining an accurate view of true product sustainability. As a result, CertainTeed is the only siding manufacturer to qualify for double credits according to the LEED product transparency credit. For more information, visit www.certainteed.com/freedomofchoice.

About Eikenhout, Inc. Eikenhout Inc. is a full service distributor of roofing, siding, windows, doors and decks. What began in 1894 as a roofing supplier has grown into the largest independently owned distributor in West Michigan. Today, Eikenhout has seven locations throughout Michigan and treats every customer as a most important asset by providing materials, knowledge and service that reflects a priority in helping them succeed. For more information, visit www.eikenhout.com or call 616- 459-4523. News Release Eikenhout Recycling Program – Page 2 of 3

About CertainTeed Through the responsible development of innovative and sustainable building products, CertainTe ed, headquartered in Valley Forge, Pa., has helped shape the building products industry f or more than 100 years. Founded in 1904 as General Roofing Manufacturing Company, t he firm's slogan "Quality Made Certain, Satisfaction Guaranteed," quickly inspired the na me CertainTeed. Today, CertainTeed® is North America’s leading brand of exterior and i nterior building products, including roofing, siding, fence, decking, railing, trim, foundati ons, pipe, insulation, gypsum, ceilings and access covers.

A subsidiary of Saint-Gobain, the world’s largest building products company, CertainTeed and its affiliates have more than 6,000 employees and more than 65 manufacturing facilities throughout the United States and Canada. Recognized as a 2009 and 2010 ENERGY STAR Partner of the Year by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, CertainTeed earned the 2011 and 2012 ENERGY STAR Sustained Excellence Award, the highest level of recognition for outstanding contributions to protecting the environment through energy efficiency. The group had total sales of approximately $3.2 billion in 2011. www.certainteed.com ###