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Corian® Design Sustainability Commitment

Corian® Design offers a broad portfolio of innovative, sustainable materials to help you create aesthetically pleasing, on-trend designs for a range of commercial and residential spaces, while helping to protect people and the planet. When you choose a Corian® Design material — Corian® Solid Surface or Corian® Quartz — you’re choosing a material that is both beautiful to behold and harmonious with the health of humans and the environment. Corian® Design takes a three-pronged approach in our commitment to sustainability:

  • Enabling a circular economy
  • Promoting transparency
  • Minimizing our environmental impact

Corian® Design Sustainability Commitment

Corian® Design offers a broad portfolio of innovative, sustainable materials to help you create aesthetically pleasing, on-trend designs for a range of commercial and residential spaces, while helping to protect people and the planet. When you choose a Corian® Design material — Corian® Solid Surface or Corian® Quartz — you’re choosing a material that is both beautiful to behold and harmonious with the health of humans and the environment. Corian® Design takes a three-pronged approach in our commitment to sustainability:

  • Enabling a circular economy
  • Promoting transparency
  • Minimizing our environmental impact

Select Corian® Solid Surface colors contain at least 6% and as much as 14% recycled material and are certified by Scientific Certification Systems (SCS) for stated recycled content. Corian®️ Design continues to produce new products with recycled content such as the recently launched collections of Corian® Solid Surface Terrains (includes Stonique, Excavage, Archeologic, and Pebble Lane) and Terrazzos (includes Peppered Terrazzo and Laguna Terrazzo). These on-trend aesthetics provide the high-performance benefits of Solid Surface combined with the desired recycled content to meet the growing needs of providing sustainable products and solutions to the construction market space. 

Corian® Design is continuously innovating to reduce waste and deliver solutions that incorporate postconsumer and post-industrial recycled content into our product offering, to achieve sustainable design without sacrificing durability or beauty.


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Corian® Design materials are NSF certified, UL certified as mold resistant and do not contain bisphenol A (BPA)—all certifications that align with the American Institute of Architects (AIA) Materials Pledge. Corian® Design materials have also received important independent certifications for environmental performance, including: GREENGUARD Gold, National Green Building Standard™ (NGBS) Green Certified™, and Living Building Challenge (LBC) Red List Free. Corian® Design materials offer high performance and environmental benefits that may help your project earn points for various certifications, such as:

  • U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) LEED® Building Rating System
  • International WELL Building Institute™ WELL Standard™
  • International Living Future Institute™ Living Building Challenge 4.0
  • BREEAM
  • Green Building Initiative (GBI) Green Globes®
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Corian® Design is committed to using innovation expertise to reduce the environmental impact of its products and operations. Here are some of the ways we do this:

  • Suppliers and raw materials are chosen responsibly, using pigments free of heavy metals and toxins.
  • Pre-consumer waste in manufacturing is reduced and recycled into new products, eliminating it going to landfill since 2011.
  • The process water used at our Corian® Quartz facility is recycled.
  • 100% of the electricity used to make our products in our North American facilities comes from renewable energy sources.

In addition, Corian® Design products have Product-Specific Type III Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs), giving you the most credible, independently verified information about the life cycle environmental impact of each, and Health Product Declarations (HPDs) that provide information about human and environmental health. In a drive toward zero sample waste, we’ve updated our sample program to help keep materials out of the landfill by facilitating the return of unused samples for recycling. We’ve also introduced the Corian® Design Visualizer, a digital approach to viewing the stunning array of Corian® Design aesthetics in your own space. Check out the Corian® Design Visualizer app on either the App Store or Google Play. These solutions enable a flexible and sustainable buying experience while reducing sample waste.

A Connection to Corporate DuPont Sustainability Leadership

At DuPont, our most significant impact as an innovation leader is rooted in our experience and ability to deploy scientific solutions that catalyze a more sustainable world. This is demonstrated by our commitment to find and develop the discoveries that will make the world thrive in a safer and more sustainable way— which requires careful choices at every step of the process. As a member of many environmental organizations, we’re working in partnership with other industry leaders to reduce our environmental footprint throughout the entire supply chain. DuPont has been a member of U.S. Green Building Council since 1999. Right now, we’re establishing new partnerships and seeking collaborations across industries to review, develop and champion the science and practices that will define what it means to be safer. We are shaping our innovation agenda and processes to help achieve our 2030 Sustainability Goals.

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