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Environmental Product Declaration
Brief Description
An Environmental Product Declaration (EPD) constitutes the most comprehensive assessment of a product’s environmental impacts occurring throughout its entire life cycle. It provides transparent, comparable, and verified information regarding the product’s environmental footprint, from the extraction of its raw materials to its final disposal, in accordance with international standards ISO 14025 and EN 15804.
Their verification by independent bodies makes EPDs one of the most reliable sources regarding the sustainability and environmental friendliness of products. For this reason, they serve as useful tools for designers, builders, and the end-users of structures. They are also integrated into environmental certification systems, thus offering a competitive advantage in the construction industry, which is highly focused on green building.
What are the benefits of developing and verifying an EPD?
- Environmental Transparency: EPDs provide clear and transparent information regarding a product’s environmental performance, enhancing transparency and accountability.
- Informed Decision-Making: Businesses and consumers can make more sustainable choices by comparing the environmental impacts of different products that use EPDs.
- Regulatory Compliance: EPDs help businesses meet regulatory requirements related to environmental disclosure and reporting.
- Green Building Certifications: EPDs contribute to earning credits or points in green building rating systems, such as LEED, BREEAM, and Green Star.
- Market Differentiation: Holding an EPD demonstrates an organization’s commitment to environmental responsibility, thereby enhancing its reputation and competitiveness.
XALKIS holds an Environmental Product Declaration (EPD) for all of its products (clay bricks and roof tiles), published in the global EPD programme – International EPD System, ensuring public access to information regarding the company’s environmental responsibility.
Quality guarantee
The company is constantly seeking quality,follows all advancements of technology and continuously modernizes its facilities.This is the reason it has obtained and implements ISO 9001:2015 και ISO 14001:2015 Quality Management System for the design and production of its products.
The products of XALKIS S.A. are in conformity with the largest European quality control standards set for the quality control of fired clay roofing tiles and bricks.Constant internal monitorings and inspections by certified laboratories(for the quality control of the clay products) ,guarantee the best quality.
International Certifications
All the products are in compliance with CE marking certificate, which is a declaration of comformity with all the requirements and a confirmation that the necessary procedures for the evaluation of comformity are completed.
