2021 Owens Corning Sustainability Report | Expanding Our Product Handprint | Product Innovation & Stewardship | 97 PRODUCT INNOVATION Products That Make a Material Difference Owens Corning’s commitment to sustainability drives innovation across all three of our businesses. The result is a portfolio of products that help make the world a better place. The following examples represent some of our recent successes. Pure Safety ® insulation We have expanded the reach of this high-performance insulation, the only building material to offer Asthma Allergy Free certification. This product offers an incremental reduction of dust in the material. PAROC ® Natura insulation This line of stone wool insulation uses low-carbon melting technology, green electricity, recycled waste materials, and new technologies to reduce the amount of virgin raw material used and offer a product with very low CO 2 emissions. The remaining emissions are compensated by reducing global CO 2 e emissions through the purchase of offsets in a Verified Emissions Reduction Scheme. The new product line, which is certified as carbon-neutral by a third-party, offers durable insulation for the building industry and became available in Finland, Norway, and Sweden at the beginning of 2021. Net-positive: When a product is saving more energy in use than it took to produce it. Legacy FOAMULAR ® becomes net-positive in approximately 3.4 years. New FOAMULAR ® NGX™ becomes net-positive in about 7 months. As we work toward our 2030 sustainability goals, we can point to the progress we have already made in increasing the sustainability of our products. These examples demonstrate the effectiveness of our approach to product sustainability evaluation as part of our innovation process. Insulation Innovations PINK Next Gen™ Fiberglas™ insulation Launched in 2021, PINK Next Gen™ Fiberglas™ insulation features a number of innovations that increase our overall product handprint. The trade association NAIMA estimates that insulation saves 12 times the energy required to manufacture it within the first year of its use, and PINK Next Gen™ Fiberglas™ insulation offers even greater sustainability advantages, including the highest certified recycled content in the industry. In addition, it is certified made with 100% renewable electricity through the use of power purchase agreements, and it has earned Underwriter Laboratories GREENGUARD ® Gold certification for low volatile organic compounds. (See page 107 for more about our products that are certified as made with renewable electricity.) FOAMULAR ® NGX™ insulation As an important step toward our goal to combat climate change, in 2020 Owens Corning introduced a new product line: FOAMULAR ® NGX™ (Next Generation Extruded). The proprietary blowing agent in this new line of extruded polystyrene (XPS) foam products is optimized to demonstrate a greater than 80% reduction in embodied carbon compared to legacy FOAMULAR ® insulation products. The investment in developing a product that meets and exceeds the stringent regulations going into effect in 2021 and 2022 reflects Owens Corning’s commitment to offering building materials that merge the highest levels of performance and sustainability. The first project built with PINK Next Gen™ Fiberglas™ insulation was a specially adapted smart home that was designed for a severely wounded U.S. military veteran and his family. Owens Corning donated these materials as part of our partnership with the Gary Sinise Foundation. Learn more in the Community Engagement chapter of this report. Photo: FOAMULAR ® NGX™ insulation being installed.