How We Make Our EPDs Easy to Understand

Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs) are the foundation of credible sustainability claims in steel. Or at least, they should be. But too often, EPDs are written in a way that makes them hard to understand.

We do the opposite. Our EPDs are designed for clarity, transparency, and comparability.

We Highlight our Carbon Footprint

In our EPDs, the total Global Warming Potential (GWP) for the product, which represents its carbon footprint in kg CO₂ equivalent, is clearly highlighted. We don’t hide it in a corner of a long table. We don’t make you do the math. We don’t slice it up and hope you miss the total. Instead, we highlight the total value for A1–A3 because that’s what matters when comparing products.

We Show Scrap Ratio

Recycled content is one of the most misunderstood and misused claims in green steel. Many producers use iron ore as their base input, then toss in a small percentage of scrap metal, and call their steel recycled.

All our steel is made from recycled scrap in electric arc furnaces (EAFs). While we do have to add some pure alloying elements to guarantee the required chemical composition and mechanical properties, we minimize this amount of raw materials by carefully sorting and selecting our steel scrap to come as close as possible to the desired chemical composition with recycled material, and we never use iron ore.

In every EPD, we clearly show the scrap ratio.

We Specify the Steel Type or Grade

Here’s a trick many steel producers use: they create an EPD for a product form (like hot-rolled plate or forged bar), but base the environmental data on a low-complexity, low-emission steel grade, like non-alloyed structural steel. Then they apply that EPD to a broad range of high-performance steels with completely different emissions profiles. If they don’t say what steel type or grade was used in the calculations. That’s a red flag.

We don’t play that game.

Every one of our EPDs clearly states the exact steel type or grade it refers to. Because you can’t compare a simple structural steel (like SIQUAL 0577 / 1.0577 / EN S355) to a high-strength quenched and tempered steel (like SIMAXX 1100 / 1.8942 / EN S1100QL) and pretend the emissions are the same. They’re not.

If an EPD doesn’t tell you what steel grade it’s based on, it’s not trustworthy.

Our goal is not just to meet EPD standards, but to exceed them in a way that helps you, the buyer, make smarter decisions. We do all this because we believe sustainability should be measurable, not just marketed. And because we know trust doesn’t come from a label, it comes from proof.