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How can Rigidized® Metals Support Your Sustainability Goals?
Architecture
Compared to many other materials, metals have relatively low embodied energy. Perhaps more importantly, properly specified metal materials can reflect solar radiation, making buildings more efficient, as well as making urban environments, and the planet as a whole, cooler. Health and safety are also supported by proper metal material selection. Low life cycle costs are the result of specifying materials that will last the useful life of the building, without requiring replacement or significant amount of maintenance.
Material Handling Equipment
Low friction surfaces can make goods flow more easily improving the efficiency of operations. Less metal can be used by adding an engineered surface design to a base material specification. Durability of these surfaces can be engineered as well, reducing the frequency at which you need to replace material handling components.
Transportation and Automotive
The weight reduction advantages of engineered metal surfaces can improve the efficiency of vehicles traveling by land, sea or air. Further, metal components can contribute to engine or battery performance, promoting their efficiency as well.
Food Service Equipment
Hygienic food contact surfaces can be optimized. Efficiency in refrigeration and dispensing food products at the manufacturing and consumer levels can be improved as well.
Heat Exchangers & HVAC Equipment
Enhanced surface tubing allows heat exchanges to operate more efficiently, using less energy and potentially less material to build a heat exchanger in the first place. We can help you optimize the amount of heat you move for the amount of resources employed in the process.
Batteries
Electrode surfaces in battery applications can be optimized by metal surface design that improve their efficiency, allowing them to charge more rapidly and extend the interval between charges.
Rigidized® Metals products are covered by EPD and HPD documents that have been third-party verified, in accordance with LEED Version 4, as well as other environmental bodies. A Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) report is available upon request. Learn more here.
Click here to request a consultation with a Rigidized® Metals expert who can help you find opportunities to make your product or project more sustainable.