Trocellen’s LCA/EPD certification

The EPD (Environmental Product Declaration) certification is a voluntary statement which describes the environmental impact of a product or processbased on Life Cycle Analysis (LCA) and certified by a third party. The LCA study is the basis for many environmental and sustainable statements used in the construction industry. (For a complete overview of the system please read forward.)

Trocellen is the first PE foam manufacturer^(*) who obtains the EPD certification for its products, proving how much importance the company pays to environmental aspects. The certificate not only makes the company’s ecological footprint explicit on the market, but also allows Trocellen’s products to be used in Green building protocols throughout Europe.

^(*) producing closed-cell, expanded and cross-linked polyethylene foam

Trocellen has set the reduction of its environmental footprint as one of its strategic objectives for the coming years. The first step in this direction was obtaining the EPD certification for the following product categories:

EPDs are also published on the international Environdec portal (https://www.environdec.com/library)

Please note that the data in the EPD are expressed per m² of product.

What is exactly LCT, LCA, PCR?

The construction industry is responsible for more than 30% of global CO₂ emissions. It is therefore completely understandable that the aspects of sustainability need to be increasingly applied in this area as well. One method for this is the so-called Life Cycle Thinking (LCT), i.e. the approach we use to evaluate the environmental, economic and social sustainability of a product (and/or service), and within which the concept of Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) was born.

LCA is an analytical and systematic method that uses specific indicators to evaluate the environmental footprint of a process (and/or service) during its entire life cycle. These indicators enable a 360° evaluation of the environmental impact.

These indicators are divided into 3 main groups:

• Atmospheric, including contribution to the ozone hole formation or CO2 emission.
• Terrestrial, identifying the impact on the use of fossil and non-fossil raw materials.
• Aquatic, concerning consumption or pollution of water-based environments.

The phases evaluated in the LCA study are given below in more detail:

Some (or all) of these phases are evaluated according to the PCR (Product Category Rules) to which the object of the LCA analysis belongs. In the case of Trocellen products, phases A1-A2-A3-C2-C4 have been studied.