WINCHESTER, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Apr 14, 2025--
For the 15 th year in a row, Trex Company [NYSE:TREX], the world’s largest manufacturer of high-performance, low-maintenance composite decking and railing, and a leading brand of outdoor living products, has been named Green Builder Media’s “ Sustainable Brand Leader ” in the decking category. The Company’s new Trex Select® decking was also selected by Green Builder editors as one of the 50 most “ Sustainable Products of the Year,” further reinforcing Trex’s leadership and strong preference among eco-conscious architects, builders and contractors.
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“It is incredibly rewarding and affirming to have our products regularly recognized by green building experts and trade professionals who actively seek out high-quality, eco-friendly products for their projects,” said Adam Zambanini, EVP and COO for Trex Company. “Sustainability is no longer a ‘nice to have’ but a meaningful requirement among increasingly eco-conscious consumers. We are pleased to offer Performance-Engineered™ products that not only outperform and outlast wood but also deliver premium aesthetics and a sustainable option for builders and homeowners looking to reduce their environmental impact.”
Sustainable Products of the Year
Each year, the editorial team at Green Builder Media, North America’s leading media group focused on green building and responsible growth, reviews hundreds of building products designed to make homes more resilient, intelligent, effective, healthy and sustainable. The 50 most noteworthy innovations make up its annual “ Sustainable Products of the Year ” listing. Capturing a coveted spot on this year’s list, Trex Select decking was praised for its sustainable composition, refined aesthetics and enhanced performance.
The industry’s first mid-tier composite decking offering to feature heat-mitigation, Select is engineered with Trex’s proprietary SunComfortable™ IR technology. This advanced formulation reflects the sun and keeps the surface cooler* than other composite decking offerings of a similar color without heat mitigation.
“Over the past several years, Trex has unveiled innovations that have solidified its position as the leader at both the premium and entry levels of the composite decking category,” noted Zambanini. “With the launch of our newest Select deck boards, we’ve completed a strategic trifecta and are the only brand in the industry to offer heat-mitigating products ranging from a retail price of $2.00/ft to $6.50/ft.in our product portfolio.”
Joining the existing Trex Select ® colors of Saddle and Pebble Grey are three new SunComfortable shades that feature lighter hues and a new graining pattern with subtle streaking and refined embossing:
In keeping with the sustainable legacy of the entire Trex decking portfolio, the new Trex Select offerings are made from up to 95% recycled and reclaimed content and engineered with a proprietary, high-traffic formulation and integrated shell that resists stains, scratches and mold 1 to ensure long-lasting durability and aesthetics. The boards won’t rot, warp, crack or splinter 1 like wood, and upkeep is hassle-free. No sanding, staining or sealing is ever needed, and spills wash off easily with eco-friendly soap and water. 1
Further enhancing its appeal, Trex Select decking is rated for W.U.I. (Wild Urban Interface) fire compliance, and is fully submersible, making it ideal for marine applications. All Select decking is backed by a 35-year Limited Residential and Fade & Stain Warranty and a 10-year Limited Commercial Warranty. 1
Sustainable Brand Leader
In addition to being honored for one of the most “Sustainable Products of the Year,” Trex also retained its status as the “ Sustainable Brand Leader ” in the decking category for the 15 th consecutive year. Trex is the only brand in the building industry to win top honors in its category every year since the program started in 2010.
“Achieving this recognition year after year is a testament to our ongoing commitment to making our products and processes as sustainable as possible,” Zambanini added. “Trex was ‘green’ long before it was on-trend and we are proud to lead the way in creating positive change in the world through continuous innovation.”
To determine the industry’s most sustainable brands, Green Builder Media merges macro market trends with the micro user-specific results of its annual Reader’s Choice Survey. Scores are based on online and social brand sentiment, the number of positive mentions about a brand in correlation with others in the same category, and a survey of eco-minded building professionals. Based on these combined factors, the program recognizes the most sustainable, innovative and highest performing brands in the green building industry.
Green Builder Media is North America’s leading media group focused on green building and responsible growth. The complete results of the 2025 Readers’ Choice Survey and Brand Index are published in the March/April issue of Green Builder magazine.
For more information about Trex’s high-performance, eco-friendly products, visit Trex.com.
* Trex ® SunComfortable™ products with heat-mitigating technology are designed to be cooler than most other composite decking products of a similar color. Although engineered to be more comfortable, they can still get hot to the touch when direct sunlight and high temperatures converge for extended periods of time. On such days, care should be taken.
1 For full details see the Trex Decking Fascia and Cladding Limited Warranty athttps://www.trex.com/customer-support/trex-owners/warranty/
About Trex Company
For more than 30 years, Trex Company [NYSE: TREX] has invented, reinvented and defined the composite decking category. Today, the Company is the world’s #1 brand of sustainably made, wood-alternative decking and residential railing, and a leader in high performance, low-maintenance outdoor living products. The undisputed global leader, Trex boasts the industry’s strongest distribution network with products sold through more than 6,700 retail outlets across six continents. Through strategic licensing agreements, the Company offers a comprehensive outdoor living portfolio that includes deck drainage, flashing tapes, LED lighting, outdoor kitchen components, pergolas, spiral stairs, fencing, lattice, cornhole and outdoor furniture – all marketed under the Trex ® brand. Based in Winchester, Va., Trex earned top honors in this year’s Environment + Energy (E+E) Leader Awards. Trex ® composite decking was not only named Product of the Year but also the Judges’ Choice Winner as the top-scoring entry in the Consumer + Residential category. Trex is proud to have been named America’s Most Trusted ® Outdoor Decking * 5 Years in a Row (2021-2025). The Company was also included on the Barron’s list of the 100 Most Sustainable U.S. Companies (2024 and 2025), named one of America’s Most Responsible Companies 2024 by Newsweek and ranked as one of the 100 Best ESG Companies by Investor’s Business Daily. For more information, visit Trex.com. You may also follow Trex on Facebook (trexcompany), Instagram (trexcompany), X (Trex_Company), LinkedIn (trex-company), TikTok (trexcompany), Pinterest (trexcompany) and Houzz (trex-company-inc), or view product and demonstration videos on the brand’s YouTube channel (TheTrexCo).
*2021-2025 DISCLAIMER: Trex received the highest numerical score in the proprietary Lifestory Research 2021-2025 America’s Most Trusted ® Outdoor Decking studies. Study results are based on the experiences and perceptions of people surveyed. Your experiences may vary. Visitwww.lifestoryresearch.com.
Trex Select™ Decking Lauded by Green Building Community as One of the Top “Sustainable Products of the Year”
Trex Select™ Decking Lauded by Green Building Community as One of the Top “Sustainable Products of the Year”
WASHINGTON (AP) — Secretary of State Marco Rubio suggested Sunday that the United States would not govern Venezuela day-to-day other than enforcing an existing “oil quarantine” on the country, a turnaround after President Donald Trump has insisted that the U.S. would be running Venezuela following its ouster of leader Nicolás Maduro.
Rubio's statements seemed designed to temper concerns that the assertive action to achieve regime change in Venezuela might lead the U.S. into another prolonged foreign intervention or failed attempt at nation-building.
They stood in contrast to Trump’s broad but vague claims that the U.S. would at least temporarily “run” the oil-rich nation, comments that suggested some sort of governing structure under which Caracas would be controlled by Washington.
Rubio offered a more nuanced take, saying the U.S. would continue to enforce an oil quarantine that was already in place on sanctioned tankers before Maduro was removed from power early Saturday and use that leverage as a means to press policy changes in Venezuela.
“And so that’s the sort of control the president is pointing to when he says that," Rubio said on CBS’ “Face the Nation.” "We continue with that quarantine, and we expect to see that there will be changes, not just in the way the oil industry is run for the benefit of the people, but also so that they stop the drug trafficking.”
The blockade on sanctioned oil tankers — some of which have been seized by the U.S. — “remains in place, and that’s a tremendous amount of leverage that will continue to be in place until we see changes that not just further the national interest of the United States, which is number one, but also that lead to a better future for the people of Venezuela,” he added.
Leaders in Venezuela have so far pushed back, calling on the Trump administration to release Maduro.
Even before the operation that nabbed Maduro, experts questioned the legality of aspects of the Trump administration’s pressure campaign on Maduro, including the deadly bombing of boats accused of trafficking drugs that some scholars said stretched the boundaries of international law.
Cuba on Sunday night announced that 32 Cuban security officers were killed in the U.S. operation in Venezuela, which Trump acknowledged: “You know, a lot of Cubans were killed yesterday.”
“There was a lot of death on the other side," Trump said aboard Air Force One as he flew back to Washington from his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida. "No death on our side.”
The president's vow, repeated more than half a dozen times at a Florida news conference on Saturday, sparked concerns among some Democrats. It also drew unease from parts of his own Republican coalition, including an “America First” base that is opposed to foreign interventions, and from observers who recalled past nation-building efforts in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Rubio dismissed such criticism, saying Trump’s intent had been misunderstood.
“The whole foreign policy apparatus thinks everything is Libya, everything is Iraq, everything is Afghanistan,” Rubio said. "This is not the Middle East. And our mission here is very different. This is the Western Hemisphere.”
He also suggested the U.S. would give Maduro’s subordinates now in charge time to govern, saying, “We’re going to judge everything by what they do.” Though he did not rule out boots on the ground in Venezuela, Rubio said the U.S., which has built up its presence in the region, was already capable of stopping alleged drug boats and sanctioned tankers.
A day earlier, Trump had told reporters, “We’re going to run the country until such time as we can do a safe, proper and judicious transition.” He later pointed to his national security team with him, including Rubio and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, and said it would be done for a period of time by “the people that are standing right behind me. We’re gonna be running it, we’re gonna be bringing it back."
Despite Rubio's seeking to tamp down that notion, Trump reiterated Sunday that the U.S. would control Venezuela, saying, “We’re going to run everything."
“We’re going to run it, fix it,” he said Sunday. He added, "We’ll have elections at the right time” but didn't say when that might be.
A middle-of-the-night operation extracted Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, from their home in a military base in the capital city of Caracas — an act Maduro’s government called “imperialist.” The couple faces U.S. charges of participating in a narco-terrorism conspiracy.
The dramatic seizure capped an intensive Trump administration pressure campaign on Venezuela’s autocratic leader and months of secret planning, resulting in the most assertive American action to achieve regime change since the 2003 invasion of Iraq. Legal experts raised questions about the lawfulness of the operation, which was done without congressional approval.
Venezuela’s vice president, Delcy Rodríguez, has called Maduro the country’s rightful leader, even as her nation’s high court named her interim president. So did Defense Minister Vladimir Padrino López, who sai the country's armed forces “categorically reject the cowardly kidnapping" and will “maintain internal order and peace.”
Asked about Rodríguez comments in which she stands by Maduro, Trump said, “I don’t think it’s pushback" and suggested her calling what occurred a kidnapping of Maduro wasn't "a bad term.”
Maduro is due to make his first appearance Monday in Manhattan's federal court.
He and other Venezuelan officials were indicted in 2020 on narco-terrorism conspiracy charges, and the Justice Department released a new indictment Saturday of Maduro and his wife that painted his administration as a “corrupt, illegitimate government” fueled by a drug-trafficking operation that flooded the U.S with cocaine. The U.S. government does not recognize Maduro as the country’s leader.
Venezuela’s government kept operating as usual over the weekend as ministers remained in their posts.
The capital was unusually quiet Sunday with few vehicles moving around and convenience stores, gas stations and other businesses closed.
Maduro’s son, lawmaker Nicolás Ernesto Guerra, has not appeared in public since the attack. On Saturday, he posted on Instagram a government statement repudiating the capture of his father and stepmother.
The country’s incoming National Assembly is set to be sworn in at the legislative palace in Caracas. The unicameral assembly will remain under control of the ruling party.
Under Venezuelan law, Rodríguez would take over from Maduro. Rodriguez stressed during a Saturday appearance on state television that she did not plan to assume power, before Venezuela’s high court ordered that she assume the interim role.
Trump told The Atlantic in an interview Sunday that Rodríguez could “pay a very big price” if she doesn’t do what he thinks is right for Venezuela. Speaking to reporters later, Trump said Rodríguez is “cooperating” but reiterated the threat. He said he wanted her to provide “total access,” from major oil operations to basic infrastructure like roads, so all can be rebuilt.
His warning contrasted with his comments about Rodríguez on Saturday when he said Rubio had spoken with her and she was willing to do what the U.S. thinks is needed to improve the standard of living in Venezuela.
Garcia Cano reported from Caracas, Venezuela. Associated Press writers Darlene Superville aboard Air Force One and Jorge Rueda in Caracas, Venezuela, contributed to this report.
Protestors hold a banner stating "Trump Must Go Now" as they gather outside the UN Plaza during a demonstration against the U.S. bombing of Venezuela and seizure of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, in San Francisco on Saturday, Jan. 3, 2026. (Yalonda M. James/San Francisco Chronicle via AP)
Government supporters burn a U.S. flag in Caracas, Venezuela, Saturday, Jan. 3, 2026, after U.S. President Donald Trump announced that U.S. forces had captured Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)
National Guard armored vehicles block an avenue leading to Miraflores presidential palace in Caracas, Venezuela, Saturday, Jan. 3, 2026. (AP Photo/Cristian Hernandez)
Destroyed containers lay at La Guaira port after explosions were heard in Venezuela, Saturday, Jan. 3, 2026. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)
Smoke rises from Fort Tiuna, the main military garrison in Caracas, Venezuela, after multiple explosions were heard and aircraft swept through the area, Saturday, Jan. 3, 2026. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)
Men watch smoke rising from a dock after explosions were heard at La Guaira port, Venezuela, Saturday, Jan. 3, 2026. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)
Supporters of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro embrace in downtown Caracas, Venezuela, Saturday, Jan. 3, 2026, after U.S. President Donald Trump announced that Maduro had been captured and flown out of the country. (AP Photo/Cristian Hernandez)
