To support its customers’ targets to reduce their carbon emissions from supply chain, Outokumpu, a pioneer in sustainable stainless steel, has published new environmental product declarations (EPDs) that provide externally verified environmental data on its stainless steel products. Outokumpu is driving the green transition by providing stainless steel with up to 75% lower carbon footprint compared to the global industry average. In 2023, Outokumpu’s products reduced its customers’ emissions globally by 12 million tons compared to the global average of stainless steel.
The EPDs are a standardized way of providing data about the environmental impacts of a product. The published EPDs cover three stainless steel product groups: austenitic, ferritic and duplex. For each product group, the EPDs will cover both cold and hot rolled stainless steels, totalling the number of EPD documents to six.
The EPDs give information on a wide range of environmental impact indicators including carbon emissions, resource use, outflows and waste indicators. The calculations are based on vast lifecycle analysis that cover the stainless steel lifecycle from raw material extraction to manufacturing as well as end-of-life processing and recycling potential.
