LAMBTON DOORS ArchCat V14 Spt 2019

Life Cycle Assessment

Life cycle assessment (LCA) is a rigorous study of inputs and outputs flows over the entire life of a product, or system, and their associated environmental impacts. The underlying peer- reviewed LCA, supporting this EPD, was performed by the Research Center for Renewable Materials (Université Laval, Quebec City) for LAMBTON DOORS in 2014. The present LCA is cradle-to-grave, meaning that it includes raw material acquisition, product manufacturing, packaging, construction (shipping and installation), use and end-of-life. The cradle-to-grave processes are presented by Figure 2 . Transportation is represented by “T”.

Raw materials acquisition - Forest products extraction and production

Sawn hardwood

SCL

Particleboard

HDF

Veneer

PVAc

T

T

T

T

T

T

Product Manufacturing

Matching/Compatible Edge Options

Blind Edge Option

Edges production

Edges production

Core assembly

2

Core assembly

Face assembly

Core sanding

1

Core sanding

Face sanding

HDF + Core assembly

Double edge banding

3

Final assembly

Final assembly

Face sanding

Input to the system Ressources (energy, electricity, water...)

Output from the system

Trimming

Emission to air, water, land and waste

UV line

Machining

Packaging

T

CONSTRUCTION

Installation

Use

T

END-OF-LIFE

Landfilling

Figure 2: Cradle-to-grave process flow diagram of 5-UFPC-EME/ECE/EBE and 5-FSPC-EME/ECE/EBE doors. “T” stands for transportation.

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