Saint-Gobain Abrasive Grains releases Environmental Product Declarations (EPD) for Multiple Seeded Gel Products
Following several Environmental Product Declarations (EPD) publications, Saint-Gobain Abrasive Grains is proud to announce new EPD's covering several of their seeded gel alumina abrasive grain products. This supports our commitment to the second pillar of our sustainability roadmap: co-developing performing and sustainable products. By continuing to verify the environmental footprint of our products through LCA's, we can develop even more sustainable abrasive grains for tomorrow.
Saint-Gobain Abrasive Grains, as a leader in designing, manufacturing and distributing ceramic abrasive materials, is committed towards sustainability. We have been implementing our LCA strategy since 2021. Our objective is to assess all our products before 2025 and better understand the environmental impact of our abrasive grains when they are used by our customers.
What is an LCA and EPD?
A Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) is a comprehensive method for evaluating the environmental effects of a product over its entire life cycle, adhering to the international standards ISO 14040 and 14044. An EPD is a publicly available, standardized, and independently verified report that presents the results of an LCA. EPD's conform to the international standard ISO 14025.
What is included in the published EPD's?
Seeded Gel Abrasives are an abrasive grain produced by dispersing tiny particles in a special gel, removing the water and subjecting them to high temperatures. This produced a grain with a unique nano-structure composed of extremely uniform, sub-micron crystals that continually expose new cutting edges via microfracture when stressed. Two EPD's have been published for seeded gel products. One covers the Cerpass HTB® grain. The other covers multiple Products, based on average results of the product group, including Cerpass XTL® (SG), Hipal I, and HTB II.
These EPDs include:
- Cradle-to-gate analysis: A cradle-to-gate analysis considers the environmental impact from the extraction of raw materials to the manufacturing stage. Since our products are intermediate goods that are utilized by numerous customers, a cradle-to-grave analysis primarily depends on downstream processing. Without specific data from the final stages of the supply chain, it is not currently feasible to make accurate assumptions.
- Multiple indicators: CO2 emissions, energy consumption, water consumption, air pollution, and more.
- Third party verification: we are compliant with ISO 14040, 14044, and 14025
The EPD is published and available on Environdec. You can read more about the details via the links below:
Cerpass XTL® (SG), Hipal I, and HTB II group EPD
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