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  • More than a product declaration

    More than a product declaration4/29/2011

    While many companies focus merely on the impacts of its products, Korsnäs has chosen to show a wider picture of its environmental work and company impact in its EPDs.

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  • Digging into steel

    Digging into steel 3/10/2011

    Vicinay Cadenas was the first company in the mooring sector to apply for an EPD for one of its products. Prior to registering the EPD, the company worked out a baseline for its environmental impact.

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  • Vattenfall, Barilla and Sapi pioneering EPD process certification

    Vattenfall, Barilla and Sapi pioneering EPD process certification 3/2/2011

    Swedish state-owned energy group Vattenfall, Italian pasta company Barilla and printer cartridges re-manufacturer Sapi are the first companies to certify their environmental work according to the EPD process certification system.

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  • Improving Swiss energy generation

    Improving Swiss energy generation12/10/2010

    Switzerland’s largest energy supplier, Axpo AG, registered an EPD in 2009 for some of the electricity provided by its nuclear power plant in Beznau.

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  • EPDs for railway transports

    EPDs for railway transports12/10/2010

    The Botnia Line presents the first EPDs in the world for a railway line - 8 EPDs that cover transport and infrastructure.

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  • Declaring the impact of pasta

    Declaring the impact of pasta12/10/2010

    Barilla started to conduct life cycle assessments (LCA) in 2000, which were eventually to be turned into several product-specific EPDs. Initially the aim was to understand the potential of the methodology and to improve the know-how of the whole production chain. In 2008 LCA came to form a part of Barilla’s business strategy, which increased the need for measuring and communicating environmental performance.

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  • Ricoh first with a global Type III environmental declaration11/14/2010

    The Ricoh Group with its head office in Tokyo, Japan, manufactures and sells copiers, information equipment, and optical devices both domestically...

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  • EPD Statistics: the effect of the international EPD®system10/17/2008

    The recent rearrangement of the EPD organisation with the launch of the international EPD®system leads to a wide change in the EPD distribution by Countries and sectors. This fact is mainly due to the new classification scheme for products categories based on CPC (Central Product Classification) scheme used for structuring PCRs into a hierarchic level based on a modular approach.

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