CFL Flooring has undergone a Life Cycle Analysis (LCA) to assess the environmental impact of a product throughout its lifecycle, from extraction of raw materials through its manufacturing up to its end-of-life enabling the company to issue EDPs (Environmental Product Declarations) for its rigid core floors

Such analysis helps set a baseline and identify areas of potential improvement: selecting materials that respect health and the environment and with lower greenhouse gas emissions throughout its life cycle; promoting optimized use of resources in our production; setting up manufacturing closer to the market (e.g. is the company's facility in Calhoun, Georgia); creating new sustainable technologies, that allow us to reduce the use of materials or improve our transportation-related GHG emissions.

“Sustainability within CFL is one of the utmost important objectives throughout our innovation efforts,” said Thomas Baert, president & co-founder of CFL. “Measuring progress and making it transparent is key to push that progress forward.”

“Generating the LCA data allows us to also develop Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs) - transparent and objective reports that communicate how a product impacts the environment across its entire life cycle," said Konstantin Mishagin, director of product management and sustainability, CFL. “We see a rapidly growing global demand for quantitative environmental information, especially in the building materials market segment, in particular because it enables our clients to earn credits for sustainable building labels, such as LEED, BREEAM, DGNB and others.”