All products included are untreated solid soft wood mouldings. These are: Untreated Pine moulding (representative product) and Untreated Spruce moulding.
Multiple products (Representative product – Multiple sites, identical product):
All products included in this EPD are untreated wood mouldings. Two variations are included in this product group, and they all consist of 100% solid soft wood. The included products differ in wood species (Pine and Spruce), which results in minor variations in density. The density of the included species ranges from 450 kg/m³ to 510 kg/m³, corresponding to a variation of about 11%.
Since the declared unit is 1 kg of product, the environmental impacts are calculated per mass. Differences in density therefore do not directly affect the results per declared unit, as the assessment is normalised to 1 kg moulding. All included products are modelled with a soft wood dataset with the same reference moisture content of 10% ± 2%.
The untreated pine moulding is chosen as the representative product as it stands for 98% of production between the two products.
The unreated pine moulding is produced at four EHL manufacturing sites, Höövelliist in Estonia, Liistuvabrik in Estonia, Grimslöv in Sweden and Drewest in Poland. The product is considered an identical product in accordance with the PCR definition: Identical products refer to products which are not marketed as different products and/or are in no other way distinguishable by a downstream customer. The mouldings produced at all sites are technically and functionally identical and are not differentiated on the market. The results of the representative product Untreated Pine presented in this EPD are thus based on production-volume-weighted average of the four manufacturing sites, covering one year of production.
The untreated pine moulding is mainly produced in Estonia (<98%) where the Liistuvvabrik site covers approximately half of that share. Natural spruce moulding is only produced at Estonian site Liistuvabrik and stands for only a very small share of the production from this site. Both products consist of 100% solid wood, soft wood, with similar wood characteristics and they both go through very similar manufacturing processes as they both mainly are produced in Estonia. As these two products have a similar environmental impact across their respective lifecycle, the two products are grouped into a multiple product – product group.
The deviation of the GWP-GHG value between the reported result and the results for the underlying sites of the representative product can be seen in “Additional LCA results” as well as the deviation of the GWP-GHG value relative to the representative product and the variation of the environmental impact indicator results for modules A-C between any of the products that exceeds 10%.