Three new Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs) are announced for PVC rainwater systems and PVC & U-PVC roofline products.
Freefoam Building Products are delighted to announce the release of three Environmental Product Declaration’s. Summary documents of the full EPD’s are now available covering PVC Downpipes, PVC Gutter and PVC Fascia, Soffit and Window Trim ranges, giving the trade clear, concise access to verified environmental performance information for key roofline and rainwater products.
Aidan Harte, CEO, commented “We’re delighted to announce the availability of these 3 EPD’s. Our teams have worked hard over the last 12 months alongside external assessors to measure, calculate and produce this information. It’s been a long process but vital as our industry works towards the transition towards a net-zero future.”
Three new summary documents are now available online containing key information and high-level data designed to give clear concise information to help building product distributors, installers, housebuilders, specifiers and contractors respond to the growing need for transparent sustainability data across the construction supply chain.
Each document presents key assessment results for 1kg of product. These summarise product cradle-to-gate carbon footprint data, along with embodied carbon footprint data for the entire lifecycle of the product. Additional information on programme operator details, standards followed and the manufacturing scope are covered in each of the summary documents
The products are manufactured in the United Kingdom and assessed using 2024 production data, with the declarations following ISO 14025:2006 and EN 15804:2012+A2:2019/AC:2021.
For Freefoam customers, the release provides an accessible route to product-level environmental information that can support specification decisions, tender responses and conversations around lower-carbon construction. The documents summarise Global Warming Potential and embodied carbon values for declared units of 1kg, helping the trade compare product categories using consistent assessment boundaries.
The summaries also set out the lifecycle modules covered, including raw materials, raw material transport to factory, manufacture, transport to site, construction, building use and maintenance, and end-of-life stages such as demolition, waste transport, recycling and disposal.
Kevin Cronin, Chief Operating Officer summarised: “The publication of these EPD summary documents is an important step in giving our customers practical, transparent information about the environmental performance of our products. Stockists, installers, housebuilders and specifiers are increasingly being asked for clear product data, and these summaries make that information easy to access.”
The full Environmental Product Declarations are available through The International EPD System, with additional product information available from Freefoam Building Products.
Key figures from the EPD summaries
| Product summary | Declared unit | Cradle-to-Gate A1-A3 | Embodied Carbon Cradle to Gate, (with options including A4-A5, B1-B5 and C1-C4 Modules) |
| PVC Downpipes | 1kg of Freefoam Downpipe product | 1.14 kg CO2 eq/kg of product | 5.27 kg CO2 eq/kg of product |
| PVC Gutter | 1kg of Freefoam Gutter product | 2.55 kg CO2 eq/kg of product | 6.68 kg CO2 eq/kg of product |
| PVC Fascia, Soffit and Window Trims | 1kg of Freefoam Fascia, Soffit and Window Trim product | 2.4 kg CO2 eq/kg of product | 4.19 kg CO2 eq/kg of product |
