Would you like to optimize the ecological balance of your own products?
With verified environmental declarations (English: Environmental Product Declaration — in short: EPD) for almost the entire product portfolio produced in Germany by our trading partner Lanxess, we offer you exactly that: Full transparency about the eco-profile of iron oxide pigments.
In this way, you can positively influence your evaluation with our pigments and we can work together to achieve higher sustainability standards.
Have a look at the EPDs for the colors red, black and yellow.
Do you have any questions or would you like advice? looking forward to your message.
What is an EPD?
The EPD serves to make emissions arising from the origin, use and recycling of a product or its components transparent. The EPD thus forms the basis for more sustainable processes within the value chain in the future, in line with the motto: “Anyone who is able to quantify their own operating processes will also be able to optimize them sustainably.”
We are constantly working on this strategy and will continue to do so in the future in order to offer our customers added value in the role of sustainable raw materials supplier.
Benefits of an EPD: Customers, builders and building users benefit
- Transparent identification of environmental impacts and resource requirements:
All environmental effects and resource requirements arising from the production, use and recycling of the product used in construction are transparently reported.
- Creating a standardized basis on which all participants in the value chain can benefit and participate in terms of sustainability.
The data basis of the life cycle analysis (LCA), which forms the basis of the environmental product declaration and is quantified by various, standardized indicators from the EPD, represents the current life cycle assessment for the offered product. This life cycle assessment can and should be regarded by the manufacturing company as a measurable starting point to achieve a continuous improvement of the product-specific life cycle assessment. The same applies to processing companies that use the product as a raw material in a finishing step. Energy-intensive processes should always be scrutinized and optimized across the entire value chain. Furthermore, non-manufacturing companies can also make a contribution to sustainability as part of the supply chain (e.g. retailers) by questioning whether they can contribute to better sustainability through alternative sources, e.g. through alternative products with lower environmental impact, shorter transport routes or alternative transport options.
The EPD thus enables every participating entity in the value chain to act more sustainably, regardless of whether it is significantly involved in the product synthesis or simply requests it for further processing or resale.
- The key to joint success is to achieve the overall goal of more efficient and resource-saving construction.
The EPD is an international standard that is firmly anchored in regulations to quantify emissions and the resource requirements of complex processes on the basis of defined indicators for relevant environmental effects and to make them comparable. This is necessary because processes often differ between different companies and different products within a company also have different environmental effects. The transparency and comparability that standardized EPD indicators make possible serves the purpose of keeping emissions and resource requirements for a building to a minimum.
EPD in the area of carbon black
We can also provide our customers with sales in the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg their own Environmental product declaration for our deep black liquid paint ISF-Z from the Carbon Black sector offer. It is fully valid for the Netherlands and can be used, for example, as part of procurement procedures.