Underlining its commitment to sustainable construction, EGGER UK has introduced new product-specific Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs) for its chipboard-based structural flooring products.
These EPDs provide clearer and more accurate information about the product’s carbon performance, helping housebuilders access reliable data at a time when whole-life carbon reporting is increasingly important across the construction industry.
Whilst EGGER has always offered a universal EPD for P2 to P6 grade raw boards, generic documents naturally provide broad, average values that cannot reflect the difference between chipboard grades or upgraded surface treatments. The manufacturer has listened, understood the needs of housebuilders and gone one step further to provide product-specific EPDs.
Verified and published through the Institut Bauen and Umwelt (IB) EPD programme in accordance with EN 15804 and IS0 14025, the new EPDs are available for its EGGER P5, EGGER Peel Clean Xtra and EGGER Protect structural flooring boards. Providing readily available life-cycle inventory data, it offers additional assurances of the individual product’s environmental performance.
Specialising in the manufacture of wood-based structural flooring, decorative solutions and flooring, sustainability is at the core of EGGER’s ethos. On average, EGGER Protect boards are manufactured from 55% recycled wood, 27% sawmill by-products (such as hackchips and sawdust) and 18% virgin wood, facilitating material circularity.
Speaking about this latest update, Jonathan Lynch, UK Building Product Manager at EGGER UK, said: “Product manufacturers are increasingly being asked to provide accurate, product-specific carbon data, so customers can produce more reliable whole life carbon calculations. This is why we are delighted to offer the market product-specific EPDs for our range of structural flooring boards.
“It can be difficult to know which product is the right choice. As such, transparency is everything. By having this detailed product-specific lifecycle information available at their fingertips, our customers can have confidence when it comes to accurate carbon modelling.”
EGGER UK produce a variety of chipboard-based structural flooring boards, with one of the company’s leading products being EGGER Protect. Featuring a P5 chipboard core and hard-wearing, low-slip, thermally bonded layer on both sides of the board, it is favoured amongst many of the UK’s top housebuilders.
Learn more about EGGER’s range of structural flooring boards and view the EPDs here: to.egger.link/building
