Bureau Veritas Certification ege carpets use Bureau Veritas Certification to certify our management systems. Bureau Veritas Certification is the largest certification company in Denmark. Globally Bureau Veritas Certification is the leading certification authority with accreditations from 35 authorities in Denmark (DANAK), England (UKAS) and USA (ANAB) among others. Bureau Veritas Certification audits ege’s 2 manufacturing units 1-2 times a year, depending on the management systems. ISO 9001 Quality management The system describes demands for quality management, including ege’s capability of consequently delivering products that meet customer needs, present legislation and administrative demands, and aims at improving customer satisfaction through effective use of the system, including processes for ongoing improvement of the system. ISO 14001 Environmental management The environmental management system is a management tool ege utilises to identify and control the environmental consequences of our activities and products, and to improve environmental qualities of our products. Furthermore, a systematic approach is obtained in setting up environmental objectives and goals, in achieving these and in demonstrating that they have been achieved. DS 49001 is the Danish Corporate Social Responsibility standard. It is based on the international standard ISO 26000. DS 49001 is a management system for corporate social responsibility which creates sustainable business processes. Certification requires ege to conform to a broad range of requirements related to good leadership, human rights, labour conditions, environmental conditions, sound business practices and consumer relations as well as local community development and involvement. ISO 45001 Working environment management is a management system within working environment and safety, where ege strives to control and minimize safety and health risks for employees. The system also helps improve the effort in the working environmental area. DS 2403 Energy management is a system that provides a detailed overview of ege’s energy consumption in each process unit and building. The system provides a good basis for reductions of the energy consumption and thus CO2 emissions. ege has integrated the energy management system into the environmental management system ISO 14001. CO2 Verification In relation to the energy consumption, ege’s factory in Herning is recorded on a Quotas list and has an approved surveillance plan, which is part of the permission to emit emissions issued by Energistyrelsen. This means that the company follows the surveillance plan and yearly accounts for the fuel consumption in terms of a Greenhouse gas account. Greenhouse gas account Once a year ege develops a Greenhouse gas account, documenting the CO2 emissions of the group. The Greenhouse gas account is calculated in accordance with the Greenhouse Gas Protocol, developed by World Business Council for Sustainable Development and World Resource Institute. The Greenhouse gas account makes visible where to intervene to reduce CO2 emissions. So far, the Greenhouse gas account is not verified by Bureau Veritas Certification. CE-marking CE is short, for "Conformité Européenne" which is a labelling system in accordance with EU directives. A CE-marked product meets all relevant demands within European legislation with the purpose of protecting health, safety and environment. The harmonised standard EN 14041 describes the demands and applies for certification of textile floorings, laminate floors and elastic floors. All products from ege are CE-marked. BRE A number of ege’s products are life cycle assessed by the English BRE Certification Ltd. The analysis includes the entire life cycle from cradle to grave. The result is a carbon footprint of the products that classifies the products in the BRE system. Eurofins Indoor Air Comfort Eurofins Indoor Air Comfort product certification is an innovative tool to show compliance of a product with low VOC emissions criteria set out in Europe. The high level GOLD certification shows compliance of product emissions with the criteria of all legal specifications issued by authorities in the EU. On top, it shows additional compliance of product emissions of many of the voluntary specifications issued by most relevant ecolabels and similar specifications in the EU. Therefore, GOLD certified products are those with the best-in-class low emissions. Cradle to Cradle Certified™ Cradle to Cradle Certified™ focuses on the limited resources on earth; they are not to be wasted. They need to be included in new contexts without harming people or the environment. The goal is to eliminate the concept of waste. To achieve the Cradle to CradleTM certification you need a special focus on the design of the product, the manufacturing as well as where it ends up after use. Cradle to CradleTM shows a way to better and more healthy ways of production through a system of standards as well as requirements for certain qualities and improvements over time. Building product declarations For products marketed in Sweden a Building product declaration (BVD) exists, describing the environmental profile of the products. The system is established by Golvbranchens Kretslopsmärkning in cooperation with the Swedish Kretsloppsrådet. LEED Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design is a classification system for documentation of "green buildings" established by the U.S. Green Building Council. A selection of our products are tested for emissions and thereby qualify for the U.S. Green Building Council’s demands for emissions in "green buildings". INSTA 800 is a Scandinavian system for assessment of the cleaning quality in a room. Among others, the system measures the cleaning quality through measurement of dust sediments before and after cleaning of carpet products. The measurements are expressed in a dust index from 1 to 5, 5 being the best. A number of ege’s carpets for the contract- and domestic market have been tested. IMO International Maritime Organisation A number of products from ege fulfill IMO demands and are certified by the Norwegian Veritas in accordance with Module B in the Directive Solas 74 and IMO FTP Code. This test includes fire spread, smoke formation and toxicity. The certification is about approval for use in passenger boats in accordance with the Council Directive 96/98/EC, and approval from the U.S. Coastguard. EPD Environmental Product Declaration EPD is an environment declaration, in other words it is a brief document, which sums up the environmental profile of a product or service in a standardized and objective way. EDP means Environmental Product Declaration and is used in an international coherence. The demands, to which the EPD is made, are specified in accordance to the ISO standard 14025. An EPD is made on the foundation of a life cycle analysis (LCA). The standardised method ensures that the information is adapted to each product category making comparisons from product to product possible regardless of borders from country to country. BREEAM-NOR BREEAM-NOR is a Norwegian adaptation of the international BREEAM, which is short for BRE Environmental Assessment Method. BREEAM-NOR is a way to classify sustainable building materials. BREEAM-NOR analyses the environmental impacts of a product. It is adapted to national conditions meaning a greater focus on indoor climate, indoor pollution, acoustics, moisture protection, energy efficiency and material specification. SundaHus SundaHus offers property owners security through a wide range of services for environmentally conscious material choices aiming at phasing out hazardous substances in a building's lifecycle. SundaHus supplies structured material data and consultancy services for sustainable development in the construction and property sectors. Selected ege products are registered in SundaHus after undergoing a thorough evaluation of the products’ environmental profile. ege inhouse 1218 – 8048147 – 4th edition
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