New cool roof for reduced energy consumption

06 Jan 2025

We have replaced the roof of our Port San Antonio laboratory in Texas with an energy-efficient cool roof to maintain the building’s required temperature.

This site serves as the primary chemistry laboratory where we perform extensive physical and chemical testing, predominantly on automotive fluids. It also houses our Carnot Emissions Services group, which conducts emissions certification testing on off-highway engines to meet various governmental standards in North America, Europe and China.

The cool roof is expected to reduce the building’s energy consumption by 200 MWh each year. Another benefit of the cool roof is that its white coating provides a highly reflective surface, perfect for bifacial solar panels, which we plan to integrate in the future as they generate electricity from both sides.