Process information
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| Location | BE |
| Reference year | 2017 |
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| Use advice for data set | Scope: This EPD focusses on the production, transport and disposal of a weighted average of 1m² vinyl wallcoverings on woven textile backing of participating members of the IGI - The Global Wallcoverings Association. Non-decorative wallcoverings for a later additional treatment like painting ("whites") are included in this scope as they follow a worst case approach. 9 out of 67 IGI-members are involved in this EPD. The EPD is valid only for those companies. The technical properties are displayed in chapter 2.3. System boundary: Type of the EPD: cradle to gate - with option. The EPD is considered as a declaration of an average product as calculated from the output of several manufacturers (2b). Module A1-3, A4 and A5 The product stage begins with the consideration of the production of the necessary raw materials and energies including all corresponding upstream processes as well as transport. Furthermore, the entire production phase was investigated, including the treatment of production waste until reaching the end-of-waste status (EoW). In addition, distribution transport and installation in the building were taken into account. Module C2-4 The modules include the environmental impacts of the waste treatment until reaching the end-of-waste status (EoW) including the associated transport at the end of the product life cycle. Module D Calculation of potential benefits through the generated energy (electric & thermic) by the incineration processes in the life cycle stages in A5 C3 and C4. The burdens resulting from the waste-to-energy plants are assigned in module C3 or C4 in case of landfill gas combustion. |
| Technical purpose of product or process | Wallcoverings are used for the decorative wall design of interior spaces in private or commercial use. |
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| General comment on data set | Vinyl based wallcovering on textile backing is a wallcovering according to /EN 15102/ using a woven textile base. The textile base (scrim) can be cotton or a polyester-cotton blend. When the wallcovering is to be changed it can be stripped in its entirety by peeling the wallcovering lengths from the wall. This property as defined in /EN 235/ is strippable. |
| Copyright | Yes |
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| Data set valid until | 2022 |
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| Technology description including background system | The manufacturing process can be described with the help of the following graphic:The order of manufacture may change and can slightly deviate for different producers. Declared unit: The declared unit is 1 m² of wallcovering including packaging. The model shows a weighted average based on data (including produced square metres) from the participating manufacturers. |
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