CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- National Gypsum Company, the second largest producer of gypsum wallboard in the U.S., went live this week with a "Green Site" that provides information on its plants, product content and certifications.
The website, www.ngc-green.com, includes an interactive map that enables users to locate the company's wallboard, interior finishing product, cement backerboard and paper plants in the U.S. and Canada, as well as its research centers, gypsum mines and quarries. By selecting the sites and rolling the cursor over locations, builders interested in localizing their use of products can determine whether their projects are within 500 miles of a National Gypsum facility.
Another key section of the site focuses on company products. Users can pull up a list of the product lines and view summaries of each product including its features, applications and information on recycled content and certifications.
National Gypsum's facilities map.
The site also lists raw materials sourcing for the wallboard, interior finishing products, cement backerboard plants. Information on post-consumer and post-industrial, pre-consumer recycled content of materials used at each plant also is available.
Other features include a gallery of green building projects that were constructed with company products, and industry and green building resources that include links to the Gypsum Association and its site on sustainability.
The privately held National Gypsum Company operates almost 50 plants, mines, quarries and support facilities in the U.S. and Canada. The company has 17 plants for gypsum wallboard; it's the firm's primary product and National Gypsum has about a quarter of the market share.
National Gypsum also has seven interior finishing product plants, four that make cement backerboard and three that make paper. The company's eight mines and quarries include the world's largest gypsum quarry, which is near Halifax, Nova Scotia.
Images courtesy of National Gypsum.
