Group B - products with a GWP-GHG intensity of 48.6 kg CO2e/m2 to 58 kg CO2e/m2

As New Zealand’s largest manufacturer of ready mixed concrete and concrete masonry products, Firth Industries is committed to continue delivering a sustainable contribution to the New Zealand building and infrastructure landscape for many years to come. Firth have been developing, manufacturing, and delivering concrete and concrete masonry products to New Zealanders for almost a century. With 6 masonry manufacturing sites across the country from the Whangarei to Cromwell.

Firth have been reviewing the environmental credentials of its concrete masonry products for a considerable period and recognise that the transparency of an EPD and the calculation of Firth’s Global Warming Potential footprint is key to providing a base line for minimising our impact on carbon emissions, waste production and water use. Firth are using EPD data to provide lower carbon concrete masonry options to the market. Partnering with Firth Industries for concrete masonry products provides a very advantageous starting point in achieving your sustainability goals.

This is a ‘cradle-to-gate’ EPD covering modules A1 to A3 from European Standard EN 15804. The declared unit is based on 1m2 of Firth standard concrete masonry product.