• Rohm and Haas's largest facility, in Deer Park, Texas, has maintained an aggressive energy management effort and continuously reduced its energy consumption each year since 1997. Energy consumption per pound of product at the site was 26.6 percent lower in 2003 than 1996, eliminating 76,700 tons per year of CO₂ and 1,200 tons per year of NO_x emissions.
  
  
• In 1999, the company began engaging its other production facilities in a parallel effort. In 2001 a corporate-wide metrics system was installed to track energy usage on a monthly basis, and a formal goal of year on year reductions (1 percent per pound of product) was implemented. Various efforts at the company's other facilities have included energy assessments, best practice implementation, and process improvements.
  
  

• Rohm and Haas’s energy-saving products include its DURAPLUS™ roofing system, made with Rhoplex® Emulsion Polymers for reflective roof coatings that can be applied to rubberized roofs to increase the roofing material’s life span while lowering the solar radiation to the roof; and SEA-NINE® 211, a biodegradable antifouling agent that prevents biological build-up on large ocean-going vessels, thereby reducing the ship’s drag and energy consumption.
  

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