Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs) provide transparency in products. It includes indicators that cover the entire lifecycle, enabling customers to make informed and environmentally conscious choices.
Danfoss is committed to being our customer’s preferred decarbonization partner, and empowering our customers to make decarbonization decisions is one way that we ensure this commitment.
By providing transparency in our products, Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs) support data-driven decision-making for customers wishing to drive the green transition with us. Compliant with wide-reaching regulations, EPDs support the creditability of our products' footprint through certification.
EPDs are used to communicate transparently, the quantified environmental impacts of a product over its lifecycle stages. This quantification is done by performing a Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) in line with a consistent set of rules known as Product Category Rules (PCR). These rules standardize EPDs to ensure consistency and comparability between different EPDs. They form an important part of our commitment to Product Compliance.
An EPD provides a product’s carbon footprint together with other relevant environmental indicators, including air pollution, water use, energy consumption and waste, over its own life cycle, as well as the expected benefits of reuse and recycling in reducing the impact of future products. Similar to a food product’s Nutrition Facts Label, an EPD provides useful information of the contents of the products.
With sustainability at the core of our business and our value chain, we have developed EPDs in all segments of Danfoss. And we continue to regularly develop more.
These can be accessed below.
EPDs are a product of an LCA analysis.
The LCA is a methodology for assessing the environmental impacts for all stages in a product’s life cycle. LCAs provide a systematic assessment of the total environmental impacts of our products during their entire life cycle – from the extraction of raw materials, over-production and use, and the product end-of-life.
The result of this is an overall environmental profile of the product that is then shown in an EPD. The use of this assessment has advanced Danfoss’ sustainability efforts as we continue our commitment to our ESG ambitions.
Specifically, understanding the environmental profile of our products transparently shows areas of improvement in the product. These improvement areas become focus points for Danfoss’ circularity strategy – identifying high-impact opportunities to apply the Danfoss Circularity Framework, Sustainable Design Guide, and toolbox for sustainability assessment during new product development.
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