Employee Q&A: Sustainability, Asphalt, and Meeting Our 2030 Goals
Employee Q&A: Sustainability, Asphalt, and Meeting Our 2030 Goals
Ozma Lane, Senior Scientist II
Ozma Lane，高級科學家 II
Our people making a difference is a series featured throughout Owens Corning's 2023 Sustainability Report.
歐文斯·康寧的《我們的員工有所作爲》系列報道 2023 年可持續發展報告。
NORTHAMPTON, MA / ACCESSWIRE / May 16, 2024 / With a background in polymer chemistry, Ozma Lane could have pursued a career in academia. Luckily for us, though, she brought her talents to Owens Corning nearly six years ago, first developing improvements to our shingle materials and more recently as part of our Asphalt team. Working at our Science & Technology Center in Granville, Ozma is focused on ensuring that we are making sustainability gains while still meeting the high product standards that have made Owens Corning a market leader.
馬薩諸塞州北安普敦/ACCESSWIRE/2024 年 5 月 16 日/憑藉聚合物化學背景，奧茲瑪·萊恩本可以在學術界從事職業生涯。但幸運的是，她在將近六年前將自己的才華帶到了歐文斯·康寧，她首先對我們的瓦片材料進行了改進，最近又加入了我們的瀝青團隊。Ozma在格蘭維爾的科學技術中心工作，專注於確保我們在可持續發展方面取得進展，同時仍符合使歐文斯·康寧成爲市場領導者的高產品標準。
On the importance of sustainability in asphalt
論瀝青可持續發展的重要性
Within the Asphalt team, at least a portion of every scientist's work is focused on sustainability. The initial reason I was brought into this role was to evaluate ways for us to meet our 2030 sustainability goals, finding more sustainable materials to lower our embodied carbon footprint. Asphalt has an impact on the embodied carbon of our shingle product. Any change we can make to reduce the carbon content of our asphalt can help us meet our 2030 goals for reducing greenhouse gas emissions. This is a project for the long term - this is not a sprint - but we're seeing a lot of opportunities on different timescales.
在 Asphalt 團隊中，每位科學家的工作中至少有一部分側重於可持續發展。我被聘爲這個職位的最初原因是評估我們實現2030年可持續發展目標的方法，尋找更可持續的材料來降低我們的隱含碳足跡。瀝青會影響我們瓦片產品的內含碳。我們爲減少瀝青的碳含量所能做的任何改變都可以幫助我們實現2030年減少溫室氣體排放的目標。這是一個長期的項目——這不是衝刺——但我們在不同的時間範圍內看到了很多機會。
On the importance of collaboration at Owens Corning
論歐文斯康寧合作的重要性
The connections we have with our colleagues on different products and in different groups means that I can find something useful, even if it's not what I was originally looking for as an application. That lets us find opportunities for innovation more quickly because we're applying each new idea or material to a broader field of products.
我們與同事在不同產品和不同群體上的聯繫意味着我可以找到一些有用的東西，即使它不是我最初想要的應用程序。這使我們能夠更快地找到創新機會，因爲我們將每一個新想法或材料應用於更廣泛的產品領域。
That is something that you see in a company that has a very cooperative culture. People want to help each other and that's a real strength that lets us evolve and communicate a lot more quickly. The willingness to cooperate and be supportive of each other lets us make more use of each other's strengths when people of working with that goal in mind.
在一傢俱有非常合作文化的公司中，你會看到這一點。人們希望互相幫助，這是一種真正的力量，可以讓我們更快地發展和溝通。合作和互相支持的意願使我們在人們懷着這個目標工作時，能夠更多地利用彼此的優勢。
On choosing Owens Corning as a career
關於選擇歐文斯·康寧作爲職業生涯
If you had told me in grad school that I would really dig a job where sometimes I was in head-to-toe PPE and steel-toed boots and working in a shingle factory for 10 or 12 hours at a time - and that I would like it- I would assume you were joking. But I would expect to spend my career in building materials because it's a very real business. I want to reduce emissions and impact climate change through the work I do. That's a pretty awesome responsibility, and it means I can make an impact in a way that I couldn't if I was in a different career.
如果你在研究生時告訴我，我真的想找一份工作，有時我穿着從頭到腳的個人防護裝備和鋼頭靴，在瓦廠工作 10 或 12 個小時 —— 而且我會喜歡的 —— 我想你是在開玩笑。但我希望我的職業生涯能在建築材料領域度過，因爲這是一項非常真實的業務。我想通過我所做的工作減少排放並影響氣候變化。這是一項非常了不起的責任，這意味着我能夠以一種在不同的職業生涯中無法實現的方式產生影響。
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