Question 1

1. What are Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs)?

Accepted Answer

EPD is an international system for calculating a product’s environmental impact over its life cycle.

Question 2

2. Why are EPDs important?

Accepted Answer

An EPD will show where in the value chain a product has its greatest environmental impact and where it is most beneficial to make efforts to minimise that impact.

Question 3

3. How are EPDs created?

Accepted Answer

Through a comprehensive analysis that maps the environmental impact of a product through its entire value chain, from raw materials to waste management.

Question 4

4. What more specifically do EPDs show?

Accepted Answer

The EPDs show climate-affecting emissions, acidification, eutrophication and impact on the ozone layer as well as resource depletion and energy, fuel and water consumption and waste.

Question 5

5. What are some of the challenges in creating EPDs?

Accepted Answer

The main challenge at this point is to collect the required data. Not every company has internal ready-made structures for this. It can be a challenge, for example, for Camfil to get data from some of our subcontractors. To create these ‘EPD structures’ is an investment that costs time, effort and money. However, as more companies implement these structures, data collection will become less of a challenge.

Question 6

6. Who benefits from EPDs?

Accepted Answer

Everyone benefits when we create EPDs. We benefit from knowing where our products have the greatest environmental impact, which helps us minimise that impact. Our subcontractors and our customers benefit in the same way. As do the planet and people in general when more environmentally sustainable products are available on the market.

Question 7

7. Who is asking for Camfil to have EPDs?

Accepted Answer

The demand for our EPDs comes, for example, from manufacturers of air handling units and real estate companies that want to be able to see and analyse the entire environmental impact of their products and/or operations.

Question 8

8. How are EPDs accredited?

Accepted Answer

The data is compiled in an EPD report, which is then reviewed by an accredited certification body or an individual approved verifier before the EPD can be registered and published via the international EPD system.

Question 9

9. Does Camfil produce EPDs in-house?

Accepted Answer

Yes, we have the tools to produce EPDs in-house thanks to the independent Swedish Environmental Research Institute which has educated us in producing EPDs. In the Nordic region, we have released EPDs for our bag filters, which is our largest product group. And we will continue to roll out more EPD declared products, primarily in our largest product segment, Comfort Filtration. Our vision is that it should be just as easy to choose a sustainable Camfil product as it is to choose the right filter size or filter class.

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EPD FAQ

1. What are Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs)?

2. Why are EPDs important?

3. How are EPDs created?

4. What more specifically do EPDs show?

5. What are some of the challenges in creating EPDs?

6. Who benefits from EPDs?

7. Who is asking for Camfil to have EPDs?

8. How are EPDs accredited?

9. Does Camfil produce EPDs in-house?

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