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EcoFlex™ ICT
Modular Commercial Floor Covering
According to ISO 14025
The sum of the excluded material flows must not exceed 5% of mass, energy, or environmental
relevance.
Allocation
Co-Product Allocation
No co-product allocation occurs in the product system.
Multi-Input Processes Allocation
No multi-input allocation occurs in the product system.
Reuse, Recycling, and Recovery Allocation
The cut-off allocation approach is adopted in the case of any post-consumer recycled content, it is assumed to
enter the system burden-free. Only environmental impacts from the point of recovery and forward (e.g.,
collection, sorting, processing, etc.) are considered.
Product waste is modeled as being disposed in a landfill. Plastic and other construction waste is assumed to
be inert in landfills so no allocation is necessary. Packaging waste at the point of installation is modeled as
being recycled, so no allocation is necessary.
Background Data
As a general rule, specific data derived from specific production processes or average data derived from
specific production processes shall be the first choice as a basis for calculating an EPD.
For life cycle modeling of the considered products, the Gabi 6 Software System for Life Cycle Engineering,
developed by PE INTERNATIONAL AG, has been used to model the product systems considered in this
assessment. All relevant background datasets are taken from the Gabi 2012 software database. The datasets
from the Gabi database are documented in the online documentation http://documentation.gabi-software.com/.
To ensure comparability of results in the LCA, the basic data of Gabi database were used for energy,
transportation and auxiliary materials.
Data Quality
PE INTERNATIONAL performed a variety of tests and checks throughout the project to ensure high quality of
the completed project. This includes an extensive review of project-specific LCA models as well as the
background data used.
Temporal Coverage
Foreground data are based on 1 year averaged data from 2012. Background datasets are all based on data
from the last 7 years (since 2006), with the majority of datasets based on data from 2009 or later.
Technological Coverage
The raw material inputs in the calculation for this EPD are based on annual total purchases divided by annual
production.
Waste, emissions and energy use are based on measured data during the reference year.