Saint-Gobain Ecophon develops, manufactures and markets acoustic products and systems that contribute to a good working environment by enhancing peoples’ wellbeing and performance. Their promise »A sound effect on people« is the core backbone of everything they do. They offer total solutions for architects and offer freedom of design. If you think of it, they have it. Their core business is glasswool panels for ceilings and walls but they also offer acoustic plaster (Fade) and textile solutions (Clipso).
Saint-Gobain Ecophon use their acoustic knowledge in the development of their products and perhaps more importantly take it out into the world. Not just to their buying customers but to as many people as they can possibly reach because they think everyone deserves a good acoustic environment. Every school child deserves to hear and understand their teacher, every patient should be spared from a stressful sound environment, every office worker should be able to concentrate on their task and communicate with their colleague, every childcare worker deserves to keep their hearing and no factory worker should have to risk their safety due to a noisy work environment.
Ecophon already has some of the lowest carbon emission values on the market of ceiling tiles and grids and has now reached a new low point for the complete ceiling systems. Thanks to innovation, low-carbon steel and the introduction of biogas in their manufacturing – they are now able to reduce the carbon footprint on a selected range of complete systems, including both tiles and grids.
An EPD provides standardised information about the carbon footprint over the life cycle, covering low-carbon products produced at the Ecophon glass wool production plant in Finland (using locally produced biogas), and the grid production plant in Sweden (using low-carbon steel).
The new low-carbon offer aims to reduce emissions from purchased materials, in line with the ambition to achieve a 16% reduction in emissions from the value chain by 2030 (scope 3, compared to 2017). So far, Saint-Gobain Ecophon has successfully reduced their value chain emissions by 2%.
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