Renewal by Andersen Environmental Policy

Renewal by Andersen has a tradition of commitment to the environment, and exceeding our customer’s present needs without compromising the health of our planet and future generations. We have the credentials to back it up too. Renewal by Andersen is proud to be the first manufacturer of replacement window to be awarded Green Seal Certification for Environmental Stewardship.

Green Seal, a national nonprofit organization that looks out for the health of American consumers and our environment, estimates that Americans could cut up to 2.5 percent of our collective energy consumption if we all had RBA quality windows. To put the energy saving potential into more quantifiable terms, that’s approximately 200 gallons of oil worth of savings for each U.S. household!

So how do we do it? We start with a manufacturing process that was designed for minimal environmental impact. Since the 1970s, before it was even cool, Andersen Corporation has been using reclaimed wood fibers from their manufacturing process to develop revolutionary new environmentally friendly materials. All that experimentation culminated in our revolutionary Fibrex material. The patented blend of 40% reclaimed wood and 60% thermoplastic polymers have insulating properties far superior to regular wooden frames.

Once we accomplished that feat the energy savings started kicking in with a vengeance! Poor performing windows and doors have historically been a weak link in home insulation, accounting for up to 40% of a home’s heat loss in the winter and even more heat gain in the summer. Combined with our High Performance Low-E4 glass, and our professional installation services, we have helped homeowners increase energy efficiency by 64% in the winter, and 48% in the summer as compared with ordinary dual pane glass.

To top it all off we build our windows to last. We are so confident that our products will last that we provide our customers with one of the strongest transferable limited warranties in the business, because we want your Renewal Windows to be around for decades to come.