The Environmental Product Declaration (EPD) is a standardised tool for communicating transparent and verifiable environmental information about products.

It is becoming increasingly important for manufacturers to provide quantitative and verifiable information on the environmental impacts of their products, as this is becoming ever more significant in their communications with business partners, investors and customers.

An EPD presents a product’s environmental information in a structured and verifiable manner, in accordance with the rules of the relevant EPD scheme and based on a life-cycle assessment. EPD data can be used for comparisons, provided that, in particular, the product category rules, functional or declared unit, system boundaries and other comparison conditions are consistent.

Depending on the EPD and the underlying product category rules, different phases of a product’s life cycle are considered – from raw material extraction through to manufacture, transport and installation, right up to the use phase and the end-of-life of the equipment.

At the HKI Association, we work with our members to develop product category rules for our members’ products, which can be used to prepare Environmental Product Declarations.