Armstrong Ceilings pioneers EPDs
Armstrong World Industries has become the first ceiling systems manufacturer in South
Africa to win Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs) for its mineral tiles under the
Global GreenTag® EPD programme.
An EPD is an independently verified and registered document that communicates
transparent and comparable information about the life-cycle environmental impact of
products.
The EPDs are also in addition to it becoming earlier this year the first ceiling systems
manufacturer in the republic to achieve Green Building Council of South Africa Level A in
conformance with the Global GreenTag® scheme.
The EPDs were developed to ISO 14025 standards, fulfilling the requirements for the
international green building rating schemes Green Star, LEED and BREEAM, and apply to
two of Armstrong’s mineral tiles.
Firstly is Fine Fissured Board 600mm x 600mm and 1200mm x 600mm, Fine Fissured
MicroLook-edged 600mm x 600mm and Fine Fissured Tegular-edged 600mm x 600mm. In
addition, they apply to Dune Supreme Board 600mm x 600mm and 1200mm x 600mm,
Dune Supreme MicroLook-edged 600mm x 600mm and Dune Supreme Tegular-edged
600mm x 600mm.
The certification follows an independent life cycle assessment that reviewed raw material
extraction and energy generation, raw material transport and the actual production of the
mineral tiles including packaging and disposal.
The Armstrong tiles were evaluated for renewable and non-renewable primary energy and
the potential for global warming, acidification, eutrophication, as well as for photochemical
ozone creation and ozone depletion.
The EPDs are available to view via http://globalgreentag.com/certified-products-southafrica.