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The Ecolink Products Group is a 100% owned Canadian company headquartered in Vancouver, BC. Ecolink’s state of the art manufacturing and production facility is located in Richmond, BC.
Ecolink offers more than 30 years experience bringing highly engineered solutions to the construction and flooring industry. Ecolink's "Quick Cure Technology" fast reacting adhesives, foams and sealants allow customers to see results. Our engineering helps our customers be more successful.
Environmental Benefits
At Ecolink We Are Addressing The Challenges Of Climate Change
Impact: The issues surrounding
green house gas emissions are well documented. A typical individual
traveling to work about 18,000 miles per year creates 8 tonnes of green
house gas emissions. A typical family in the northern part of North
America can create as much as 69 tonnes of green house gas emissions
from heating their home. An energy efficient retail business uses an
estimated 1,800 tonnes of CO2 emissions attributable to the store
operations and its products. Emissions from the products these families
and business use represents a substantial portion this amount.
Emissions estimates include those related manufacturing and material
inputs, shipping and distribution.
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Carbon Credits
Carbon Negative Footprint (NCF)
Ecolink has made a commitment to be Carbon Negative, that is, Ecolink’s manufacturing process will produce products that neutralize greenhouse gas emissions associated with its own production but the production of others by producing products with a negative carbon footprint (NCF).
At Ecolink we determined that the most cost-effective emission reduction opportunity available for our Company was to create NCF products. Therefore we have joined international efforts to reduce climate change by adopting the market supply approach. This approach allows emission offsets as a compliance option for regulated emitters and a voluntary option for non-regulated emitters. The market supply approach has been widely supported by governments and stakeholders and provides a cost-effective way to achieve climate change objectives. The ability to sell offsets provides an incentive for Ecolink to innovate and continue to develop products that will reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Ecolink realizes that without the adoption of a market supply approach this would not be possible.
Ecolink has adopted new management practices that will monitor carbon credits created as well new control systems to allow Ecolink to verify emission reductions from its new technology.
Companies and individuals interested in offsetting their consumption of hydrocarbon fuels; such as gasoline, heating fuel, or even hydrocarbon based electricity, can now purchase carbon credits from Ecolink that will be used to develop Ecolink’s line of NCF products These carbon credits are the product of a documented and formalized quantification of each of Ecolink’s NCF products, Ecolink’s improved technology and practices will offer Ecolink the ability to quantify reductions in green house gas emission from production of Ecolink’s NCF products.
The renewable energy raw materials that Ecolink has chosen to include in its NCF products absorb carbon dioxide during their growing cycle, thereby reducing greenhouse gas accumulations in the atmosphere. More importantly the overall biospheric effect is that carbon dioxide is removed from the atmosphere when these renewable resource raw material resources are used in the production of our carbon negative products while carbon dioxide is added to the atmosphere when fossil petroleum is used in the production of urethane polyols. Ecolink estimates approximately an 1100% reduction in the release of carbon dioxide when renewable resource raw materials are used.
Ecolink’s NCF products will bear the NCF insignia. Products will be evaluated and labelled with the amount of tonnes of CO2 equivalent green house gas emissions that each product offsets. Even through the purchase and retirement of a single tonne of green house gas emission reductions companies can offset higher levels of green house gas emissions from their consumption of hydrocarbon-based energy.
In order to assess the benefit and sustainability to the environment of Ecolink’s NCF products, including the environmental impact of Ecolink’s processes, Ecolink has used Life Cycle Inventories and Life Cycle Assessments approach which tracks energy consumption from the products from cradle to gate (inception to when it leaves our factory).
Ecolink realizes it is very important that the quantification of GHG emission reductions has been done in conformance with accepted standards and methods. Therefore, all Ecolink GHG emission reductions from its NCF labelled products follow such standards. For transparency to its purchasers, Ecolink will compute emission reductions and costs from each of its products using such standards and will verify the quantification documentation used to create the GHG emission reductions from each product.
Currently, Ecolink is the only generator of high quality, product based offsets in Canada. As an advanced industrial nation with a high standard of living we use a lot of energy to produce and transport the products that build our country. This has a vast climate impact. So we're setting out to change this by enabling the consumers to purchase NCF products. It is Ecolink’s intent through the development and sale of NCF products to become a partner of individuals and businesses as they offset their green house gas emissions.
For more information see our press releases.
