PITTSBURGH--(BUSINESS WIRE)--FOAMGLAS® cellular glass insulation, manufactured by Pittsburgh Corning Corporation, has been selected as one of BuildingGreen.com’s Top-10 products of the year by the editors of Environmental Building News and the GreenSpec® directory. This ninth annual award recognizes the most innovative and exciting green building products added to the GreenSpec® Directory during the past year or covered in Environmental Building News. BuildingGreen.com was founded 25 years ago and is an independent publishing company providing unbiased green building information resources such as the GreenSpec® Directory, LEEDuser web tool and more. Advertising and/or payment from manufacturers is not accepted by the organization. FOAMGLAS® insulation is 100% glass, made primarily from silica sand along with smaller amounts of limestone, soda and some trace minerals. The production process is also free of harmful blowing agents, and the material’s high compressive strength (without creep or deformation) and resistance to water and water vapor make it for a better option than extruded polystyrene (XPS), for example, which contains the brominated flame retardant HBCD and is produced with HFC blowing agents that have a high global warming potential. FOAMGLAS® insulation is noncombustible (without using flame retardants), resistant to corrosion in any environment, resistant to termites and rodents, dimensionally stable and has a high compressive strength.
