More Transparency
More From Wood has been EGGER’s principle since it was founded in 1961. We manufacture products for commercial and residential projects in the furniture, interior design, building and flooring industries, using nature’s renewable resources.
Our ethos is that wood is a precious material, and as our founder, Fritz Egger Senior, said, “Wood is far too valuable to just throw it away!”
By acting sustainably, conserving resources and protecting the climate, we contribute towards sustainable development and stand by our underlying principle: More From Wood.
Make informed decisions in your furniture manufacturing or design specification projects. Our products have useful environmental performance indicators that make us, and therefore you, More Transparent.
Leaving a trace
Wood-based materials are climate-friendly
CO2 footprint
Every product leaves traces on the climate. The CO2 footprint can be used to quantify how large these traces are. Our raw material wood absorbs CO2 during its growth and stores it. CO2 is emitted during transport and processing. The difference between the storage and the emission results in the CO2 footprint. Our (wood-based) products have a very small carbon footprint because more CO2 is bound in the product than is emitted during transport and processing.
The indicator corresponds to CO2 equivalent GWP 100 cradle-to-gate (A1-A3 according to EN 15804). The calculation is externally verified (see EPD).
Material regrowth
Wood-based materials grow back
Contribution to the bioeconomy
Wood grows back in a few decades, fossil raw materials need millions of years to develop. It is therefore important to use more renewable raw materials. The indicator shows how much of the material used to manufacture the product comes from renewable resources (wood, paper) and how much of the material comes from fossil resources (glue, wax, resin). In this way, we transparently indicate for each product the contribution it makes to the bioeconomy.
The indicator refers to all ingredients of a product by weight. It is based on an internal calculation.
Recycle, reuse, recover
We conserve natural resources
Contribution to the circular economy
To conserve natural resources, we must reuse, recycle and recover existing products in the best possible way. This indicator shows how well this works in practice. It presents the ingredients of a product in categories: Recycled materials (e.g. old furniture parts or pallets) and by-products from the sawmill industry (e.g. wood chips or sawdust) contribute to the circular economy. The remaining product components come from fresh resources, such as thinning wood, glue and paper.
The indicator refers to all ingredients of a product by weight. It is based on an internal calculation.
Local sourcing
We focus on short distance transportation
Wood proportion from the regional environment
Purchasing in the region and the shortest possible transport distance strengthen the regional economy and reduce the volume of traffic. The indicator shows what proportion of the wood used in the product comes from within a maximum radius of 150 kilometres.
The indicator refers to the transport distance of the wood used in the product. The calculation is externally verified (ISO 38200 "specified regional").
Sustainable forest management
We use wood from verified and certified sources
Wood proportion from verified and certified sources
Wood is generally sustainable as it is a renewable raw material. However, for this to be fully true, forests must also be managed in accordance with economic, ecological and social criteria. We provide evidence of this for our value chains: All our wood-based products are 100% verified by independent third parties according to ISO 38200. This confirms the legality of the origin of the wood. In addition, all EGGER plants are certified according to the standards of FSC and PEFC as part of the chain of custody.
The indicator refers to the wood used in the product. The calculation is externally verified (verified legal = proportion of ISO 38200 "verified" of all wood used in the product; of which certified = proportion of ISO 38200 "certified" of all fresh wood used in the product).
Full transparency for our products
We make public all ingredients that are used in our products. There are two different document formats for this: EPDs ("Environmental Product Declarations") that also make the life cycle assessment of our products transparent and EHDs ("Environmental and Health Datasheets").
