KI supports sustainability objectives with new EPDs

KI’s furniture helps the world’s leading organisations create happy, healthy, high performing working and learning environments for their people. Bringing together good design, advanced engineering and sustainable resources, KI’s products are durable, flexible and offer excellent value.

KI Europe has published Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs) for its portfolio of UK-manufactured products to help customers meet their sustainability objectives. Valid for five years, these documents help to achieve credits towards SKA, BREEAM, LEED and other certifications and standards.

An EPD is a standardised and verified way of quantifying the environmental impacts of a product based on a consistent set of rules known as a PCR (Product Category Rules). Conformant with ISO 14025 (ISO 14025:2006 Environmental labels and declarations – Type III environmental declarations – Principles and procedures), these cradle-to-grave EPDs are concise and include environmental information and life cycle assessments (LCA) which have been conducted by Giraffe Innovation Ltd. LCAs cover materials, production, distribution, use, through to end of life; helping specifiers and customers to confidently make more sustainable procurement decisions.

Jonathan Hindle, KI’s Group Managing Director – EMEA, comments:

“Sustainability is a top priority for a growing number of public and private sector projects. These EPDs show our commitment to tackling our shared issues such as climate change, carbon footprint and environmental impact. Additionally, analysing the environmental performance of our products over their lifetime can help us to develop even better products and processes in the future.”

KI’s products manufactured in the UK with third-party verified EPDs, published on Environdec (www.environdec.com) include:

 Postura+ Chairs 
 800 Series Storage 
 Connect3 Workstations 
 EC4 Workstations 
 UniteSE Workstations 
 Work2.1 Sit-Stand Workstations 
 Work2 Cantilever Workstations 

Additional KI products including bespoke items have self-declared third party reviewed EPDs that have been produced by using the same calculator and standards.

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