More Businesses Embrace EPDs
12th Aug 2024
This year, EPD Australasia has continued our strong growth in the publication of Environmental Product Declarations, with over 100 new and 18 updated EPDs published by early August 2024. Notably, 11 businesses published their first EPDs. The majority of EPDs continue to be for building and construction products, reflecting the ongoing momentum for transparency (particularly for verified embodied carbon footprint) and sustainability in this industry. The move to single-product EPDs has also spurred growth in the number of EPDs.
Welcoming New EPD owners
We welcome ECORR, Independent Cement and Lime, Korok Building Systems NZ, MiTek Australia, Ortech Industries, Reozone, ResourceCo, Southern Cross Cement, Stride Reinforcement, Taghleef Industries, and Western Suburbs Concrete who have registered their first EPDs with EPD Australasia.
- ECORR recycles construction & demolition waste to create performance-engineered circular construction materials. We have published 3 EPDs for Recycled Aggregate, Recycled Bedding Sand and Recycled Densely Graded Roadbase & Subbase.
- Independent Cement and Lime (ICL) is a specialist supplier of cement and cement-blended products, as well as Supplementary Cementitious Materials such as slag and fly-ash. Their EPD is for Ground Granulated Blast-furnace Slag (GGBFS), a fine white powder used in concrete.
- KOROK® Building Systems NZ Ltd is a manufacturer of fire and acoustic rated wall systems. Their EPD is for KOROK® galvanized panels, rollformed from zinc coated steel strips with an aerated concrete core.
- MiTek is a leading supplier of engineered building solutions for the timber industry. Their EPDs are for MiTek Connector Plates used for joining timber in off-site construction and MiTek POSI-STRUT® Metal Web used as structural web members in off-site prefabrication of parallel chord timber trusses.
- Ortech Industries’ EPD is for Durra Panel, a compressed straw panel used as a wall and ceiling lining. The engineered biomass panel core is made entirely from reclaimed straw, a greatly wasted material that is a by-product of annual crop harvesting.
- Reozone is a leading steel reinforcement supplier based in Western Sydney. Their EPD is for Deformed Reinforcing Bar which is used for large projects in both residential and commercial applications.
- ResourceCo is one of Australia’s most diversified recyclers capable of recovering resources from construction and demolition (C&D), commercial and industrial waste, soils and tyres. Their EPDs are for the recovered products they produce at their South Australian Wingfield and Lonsdale Facilities.
- Southern Cross Cement (SCC) is a cementitious supplier committed to providing sustainable products for both Queensland and Northern NSW. Their EPD covers SCC’s General Purpose (GP) Cement.
- Stride Reinforcement’s EPD is for Steel Reinforcing Bar used in reinforced concrete. The product provides structural reinforcement for concrete used in structures ranging from wind turbines to skyscrapers.
- Taghleef Industries offers flexible packaging films for a multitude of food and non-food product applications. Their EPD is for BOPP ((Biaxially Oriented Polypropylene Film) Film TLA 17µm, a transparent film suitable for typical packaging applications such as Rotogravure and flexographic printing, HFFS & VFFS packaging, Lamination and Single web structure.
- We have published multiple EPDs for products manufactured at Western Suburbs Concrete’s (WSC) North Penrith plant in Sydney, NSW. The concrete is used in residential, commercial and industrial buildings, as well as in infrastructure applications.
Existing Members Publish New EPDs
New EPDs have been published for existing members Allied Concrete, Gunlake Concrete, Higgins Concrete, Holcim NZ, and Hymix Australia.
Updated EPDs
Updated and reverified EPDs have been published for Adbri, Boral, Geo40, Holcim NZ, HR Cement, Humes Pipeline Systems, InfraBuild, Timberlink and Winstone Wallboards/GIB.
All these businesses have declared their product’s environmental impact, including its embodied carbon footprint, within their independently verified EPDs.
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