Entering into 21st century, sustainable development is the target that all walks of life are pursuing, and the construction industry is no exception. Columbia Green Technologies is a global leader in the green roof market and is committed to providing customers with green roofs and green comfort spaces. Recently, they decided to choose DuPont™ Styrofoam™ Brand XPS as the material for green infrastructure construction to reduce carbon emissions and align with sustainability vision.



Styrofoam™ Brand XPS has been around for 80 years as a sustainable building product. Its XPS foam board technology meets thermal insulation, moisture resistance, air, and steam performance requirements, so it is also widely used. Installing its XPS helps reduce thermal bridges and improve energy efficiency and save billions of dollars in energy each year in millions of buildings around the world. So XPS produced by DuPont™ Brand meets the requirement of Columbia Green. Using XPS foam, Columbia Green’s green roofs help solve a lot of problems caused by some cities’ aging infrastructure, such as flooding, heat island effect and energy waste.



The use of XPS itself is a way to save resources, but now many people still think that XPS foam, as one of EPS foam, also causes great pollution to the environment. How to refute this view? XPS recycling project proves that XPS is totally recyclable. If XPS waste and leftover material are collected together to be put into reuse, the parlance of XPS pollution is invalid. The method of dealing with waste XPS and leftover materials depends on the XPS compactor. In this domain, INTCO Recycling is the one of top recycling experts. INTCO provides GREENMAX XPS compactor to realize the process of compressing large-volume XPS into high-density blocks, which is applied in new products such as household decoration, etc. Besides, INTCO Recycling also purchases back compacted blocks for its own producing lines of frames goods.



Nowadays the whole industrial chain of XPS has become more and more mature. From producing, putting into use to recycling, XPS is no doubt suitable for green sustainable development. XPS recycling is making a great contribution to the whole global circular economy. The good prospects of XPS recycling are worth expecting.