Twist Bioscience Achieves LEED Certification for Sustainable Operations and Maintenance
September 12 2024 - 8:00AM
Business Wire
Wilsonville, OR facility LEED v4.1 Operations +
Maintenance certified
Twist Bioscience Corporation (NASDAQ: TWST), a company enabling
customers to succeed through its offering of high-quality synthetic
DNA using its silicon platform, today announced that the U.S. Green
Building Council (USGBC) awarded the company’s Wilsonville, OR
facility LEED certification, meeting sustainability standards for
its building, operations and maintenance.
“We founded Twist to improve health and sustainability, and
every day we work toward that mission by providing our customers
with products to enable them to build a better world,” said Emily
M. Leproust, Ph.D., CEO and co-founder of Twist Bioscience. “Last
year we quantified the carbon footprint of making a gene using the
Twist platform and found that our approach is the equivalent of
driving 0.092 miles (0.15km) compared to 59 miles (95km) using a
96-well plate approach1. By achieving LEED certification for our
Wilsonville site where we manufacture our genes and synbio
products, we can provide our customers with DNA made using fewer
chemical reagents in a facility that upholds the LEED standards of
sustainability.”
LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) is a
globally recognized green building rating system that provides a
framework for healthy, highly efficient, and cost-saving green
buildings. The LEED v4.1 Operations + Maintenance (O+M)
certification applies to existing buildings that are undergoing
improvement work or little to no construction. Certified buildings
meet requirements for location and transportation; sustainable
sites; water efficiency; energy and atmosphere; materials and
resources; indoor environmental quality; and innovation.
To order Twist products, click here. To learn more about
corporate responsibility efforts at Twist, click here.
1Calculated Twist internal data using Dr. Oligo benchmark
January 2021. Comparison calculated using the EPA Greenhouse Gas
Equivalencies Calculator.
About Twist Bioscience Corporation
Twist Bioscience is a leading and rapidly growing synthetic
biology and genomics company that has developed a disruptive DNA
synthesis platform to industrialize the engineering of biology. The
core of the platform is a proprietary technology that pioneers a
new method of manufacturing synthetic DNA by “writing” DNA on a
silicon chip. Twist is leveraging its unique technology to
manufacture a broad range of synthetic DNA-based products,
including synthetic genes, tools for next-generation sequencing
(NGS) preparation, and antibody libraries for drug discovery and
development. Twist is also pursuing longer-term opportunities in
digital data storage in DNA and biologics drug discovery. Twist
makes products for use across many industries including healthcare,
industrial chemicals, agriculture and academic research.
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