EPD: qualified the LCA tool of Confindustria Ceramica

Last December, ICMQ’s verification process that led to the qualification of Confindustria Ceramica’s LCA tool was successfully concluded.

This is a calculation tool that will enable companies that are members of the association, to develop Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) studies to calculate the environmental impacts of ceramic tiles made at their production units, evaluated over the entire life cycle of the product.

Confindustria Ceramica’s LCA tool has been qualified in accordance with the latest version of the EPDItaly regulation, and developed according to the PCR for construction products, which complies with EN 15804+A2.

What benefits?

This TOOL will enable companies not only to identify areas for environmental improvement in order to adopt more sustainable practices, but more importantly, it will make it easier to write Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs), and publish them on the Italian Program Operator EPDItaly. This type of environmental labeling currently represents the best way for a company to communicate to the market, in a clear and transparent way, the environmental impact of its products, facilitating the conscious choice of customers and end consumers.

As stipulated in the EPDItaly regulations, EPDs developed by companies using the qualified tool will be able to be verified with a shorter and simplified process, thanks to the previous activity for the validation of the LCA model implemented in the tool and based on the ceramic tile production process. This mode pragmatically translates into both a reduction in time and cost of LCA development and EPD verification.

The endowment of an LCA tool by Confindustria Ceramica is a sign not only of the association’s sensitivity to the issue of environmental sustainability in its sector, but also of its concrete commitment to endow itself with and make available an efficient tool for measuring environmental performance, thus incentivizing its members to adopt and communicate in the near future the improvement of environmental impacts in the manufacture of their products.