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ThyssenKrupp Steel Europe Presents Environmental Product Declarations
01/17/2011 - ThyssenKrupp Steel Europe will be presenting Environmental Product Declarations for its steel construction elements at Bau 2011. The declarations cover the company’s full range of single-skin elements and sandwich panels for facades, roofs and walls.
ThyssenKrupp Steel Europe will be presenting Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs) for its steel construction elements at Bau 2011. The declarations cover the company’s full range of single-skin elements and sandwich panels for facades, roofs and walls.
ThyssenKrupp Steel Europe pursues a holistic sustainability strategythat includes environmental as well as economic and socio-cultural aspects.
The trade show presentation in Munich looks at the topic from various angles to show how steel products contribute to sustainable building
ThyssenKrupp Steel Europe says it is the first manufacturer to document the environmental performance of its products for the building envelope in such a comprehensive way. The company produces the steel construction elements in its Color/Construction business unit.
The company’s Environmental Product Declarations make the environmental performance of building products and building materials transparent. More and more architects and building designers are specifying these declarations so that they can achieve optimum sustainability even in the product selection phase. The EPDs for construction elements comply with ISO standard 14025. They were prepared in association with PE International, a consulting firm specializing in sustainability issues, and certified by the expert committee of Institut für Bauen und Umwelt e.V.
Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs) document and quantify environmental impacts over the full product life cycle, from raw material production to recycling. They include direct environmental factors such as effects on climate, air, water and soil, as well as health and safety aspects in production and processing. The composition of the rigid foams and mineral wools used for the sandwich panels is examined in the same way as the environmental impacts caused by product packaging and transportation.
ThyssenKrupp Steel Europe is exhibiting at Bau under the motto Steel Goes Green, chosen to emphasize the good environmental performance of steel construction products. As an example, sandwich panels, with their first-class insulating properties, are very energy-efficient and make a sustainable contribution to climate protection. They offer a simple and low-cost way to meet the requirements of the Energy Saving Ordinance (EnEV) for building heat insulation. Since 2009 the ordinance has also applied to industrial buildings.
ThyssenKrupp Steel Europe is focused on the attractive and fast-growing market for premium carbon steel flat products. Together with its subsidiaries, ThyssenKrupp Steel Europe AG supplies to a broad spectrum of steel-using sectors, including the automotive, shipbuilding, energy, construction, packaging and electrical appliance industries.
The company has been active at its core location in Duisburg for 120 years. Its mills represent benchmarks with respect to environmental protection both in Germany and elsewhere.
