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It might be obvious to many that the Hot Tub industry has not really been thought of as a GREEN industry before. The major reason being that most hot tub companies spray fiberglass and resins, use plastics and steel without much regard for the environment, except to follow EPA guidelines and call it a hot tub. Times have changed now and the “The California Energy Commission (CEC)” decided to set the trend. They created some of the most rigid standards in the USA that monitors energy efficiency. CEC recently revised a bill called “title 20″, which sets a standard amount of allowable energy used by a portable spa/hot tub. The amount of allowable energy per the new guidelines, was not met by 65% of hot tub manufacturers. These hot tubs failed an independent study done by California Polytechnic State University. Softub, a 20 year old company, was the only manufacturer to pass these new guidelines without having to make any changes to its manufacturing process.

I think that many of us can agree that the Hot Tub Manufacturing is generally not considered a GREEN industry. To put out their products, most Hot tub companies just spray fiberglass and resins, use plastics and steel without much regard for the environment, except to follow EPA guidelines. Well all that just change when “The California Energy Commission (CEC)” recently updated some of the most rigid standards in the USA that monitors energy efficiency. The CEC recently revised a bill called “title 20″, which sets a standard amount of allowable energy used by a portable spa/hot tub. These new guidelines were NOT met by 65% of hot tub manufacturers who failed an independent study done by California Polytechnic State University. Softub, on the other hand, was the ONLY manufacturer to pass these new guidelines without having to make any changes to its manufacturing process.