ENVIRONMENTAL

PRODUCT
DECLARATION
STEEL PRODUCTS:
STRETCHED COIL
ELECTROWELDED MESH
COLD ROLLED

Based on: Certification N°: Date of issue: Valid until:

PCR ICMQ-001/15 rev2.1 EPDITALY0016 2019 - 10 - 18 2024 - 10 - 18

EN15804:2014 + A1
CPC code: Date of revision:
41 2019 - 10 - 18 - revision 1
ISO 14025
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GENERAL INFORMATION
EPD REFERENCES
EPD OWNER: FERALPI SIDERURGICA SPA - FERALPI GROUP, VIA NICOLA PASINI 11, 25017 LONATO, BRESCIA - ITALY
MANUFACTURING PLANT IS LOCATED IN THE SAME SITE

PROGRAM OPERATOR: EPDITALY, VIA GAETANO DE CASTILLIA 10, 20124 MILANO - ITALY

INDEPENDENT VERIFICATION
This declaration has been developed referring to EPDItaly, following the General Programme Instruction; further information
and the document itself are available at: www.epditaly.it
EPD document valid within the following geographical area: Italy and other countries according to sales market conditions
(North Africa and Europe).

CEN standard EN 15804 served as the core PCR (PCR ICMQ-001/15 rev 2.1)
PCR review was conducted by Daniele Pace, contact via [email protected]

Independent verification of the declaration and data, according to EN ISO 14025 : 2010

EPD process certification

(Internal)
Third party verifier: ICMQ SpA, via De Castillia, 10 20124 Milano (www.icmq.it)
EPD verification
(External)

Accredited by: Accredia

Environmental declarations published within the same product category, though originating from different programs, may not
be comparable. In particular, EPDs of construction products may not be comparable if they do not comply with EN 15804.

CONTACTS

Eric Filippini E-mail: [email protected] Phone: (+39) 030 99 961

Technical support to Feralpi Group was provided by Life Cycle Engineering, Italy.
([email protected], www.lcengineering.eu).

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COMPANY PROFILE The Feralpi Group is one of Europe’s leading

manufacturers of steels for use in building
construction. The parent company Feralpi Feralpi, an international
Siderurgica, which was set up in 1968 in Lonato diversified group (2018)
del Garda, near Brescia, has developed steadily
over the years to form a group of industries that
currently more than two million tonnes of steel
and rolled products a year, and has a workforce 2 503 Steel
production
of 1500 permanent employees in Italy, Europe million tons
and North Africa.
In over fifty years of business, the company has
branched out to foreign markets and have been 2 089 Hot rolled
production
able to face the challenge of an increasingly million tons
globalized steel industry. Starting from its
lengthy tradition in steel manufacturing, the Cold rolled
Group has developed according to a strategy of 799 137 products
diversification into new products and markets, tons and derivatives
which has involved not only the internal
organisation but also external transactions
thanks to the acquisition of numerous 1 320 Turnover
enterprises operating in this industry. The Feralpi million euros
Group also operates in the field of special
steels, cold working, structural steelwork, the
Turnover
environment and fish farming, not to mention
financial activities and investments.
62% abroad

Since its very origins, Feralpi has focused not

Employees
only on producing the best steel grades for
building construction but also on doing it
1 548 (2018)
in the most sustainable possible way, which
has involved reducing energy consumption
and emissions by using the latest technology 60.6 Technical
investments
available or developing in-house new solutions million euros
covered by patents as a result of intensive
innovation and research.

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SCOPE AND TYPE OF EPD

THE APPROACH USED IN THIS EPD IS “CRADLE TO GATE WITH OPTIONS” ONE

TABLE OF MODULES

BENEFITS AND LOADS

CONSTRUCTION
PRODUCT STAGE USE STAGE END OF LIFE STAGE BEYOND THE SYSTEM
PROCESS STAGE
BOUNDARIES

De- construction demolition

Operational energy use

Operational water use

Raw material supply

Recycling potential
Transport from the

Waste processing

Reuse - Recovery
gate to the site

Refurbishment
Manufacturing

Replacement
Maintenance
Transport

Transport
Assembly

Disposal
Repair
Use

A1 A2 A3 A4 A5 B1 B2 B3 B4 B5 B6 B7 C1 C2 C3 C4 D

X X X X MND MND MND MND MND MND MND MND MND MND MND MND MND

SOFTWARE: SimaPro ver. 9.0.0.47

MAIN DATABASE: Ecoinvent 2.2
REPORT LCA: Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) applied to steel mill products and derivatives for EPD® purposes - final report
GEOGRAPHICAL SCOPE OF THE EPD: World according to sales market conditions
TYPE OF EPD: specific for cold rolled steel products

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THE PRODUCT INFORMATION

PRODUCT IDENTIFICATION
DESCRIPTION

Steel products: stretched coil - electrowelded mesh - cold rolled

Electro-welded mesh is obtained from drawn wire (5 mm) Stretched coil: Cross section range 6 < Ø < 16 mm
Weight from 2 500 to 6 000 kg per coil
or hot-rolled coil (6-16 mm), by joining the longitudinal Total wire length up to 22 000 m
PRODUCT FEATURES
and transversal wires using electric resistance welding to Electrowelded mesh: Diameters from 4.5 to 16 mm
Weight from 1 800 to 5 000 kg
form a panel of the desired dimensions. Cold rolled: Diameters from 4.5 to 12 mm

Steel coming from post and pre consumer steel scraps produced in electric arc
Stretched coil is extremely easy to use with a high quality furnace route (EAF) and further hot and cold rolling process.
content. The mechanical properties of weldable hot-
Adherence and surface geometry fR or fP :
rolled coils, combined with a compact packaging size - for 5 ≤ Ø ≤ 6 mm fR or fP 0.035
which is nevertheless of considerable weight, facilitate - for 6 < Ø ≤ 12 mm fR or fP 0.040
- for Ø >12 mm fR or fP 0.056
storage in confined spaces.
The special coil-on-coil processing ensures accurate and PRODUCT PROPERTIES Weldability: Ceq < 0.52
faster coil unwinding, giving considerable increases in (UNDER EN10080:2005)

output. The reduced number of daily changes results in Typical yield stress: Re > 400 MPa and/or Rp0.2 < 700 MPa
fewer downtimes, less scrap and a higher level of safety.
Elongation: Agt > 5%

Declared unit for the study is one tonne of cold rolled Successful in bend and rebend test

products. Successful in strength test and oligocyclic strength test

Total amount of products covered by this EPD, year 2018: 506 842 t

Total production, for selling purpose, year 2018: 1 122 481 t

On-site air emission control system

PLANT FEATURES On-site system to recycle process water

On-site system to recycle water used in process

In/out materials/products and melting process monitored to prevent nuclear

radiation

In house photovoltaic plant of 625 kW peak capacity operating since 2011

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ENVIRONMENTAL PERFORMANCE
The detailed environmental performance (in terms of use of resources, pollutant emissions and waste generation) is presented for the three phases, Upstream, Core and
Downstream and related sub-phases (A1-A2-A3-A4). The numbers reported in the following tables are the outcome of rounding. For this reason total results could slightly
differ from the sum of contributions of the different phases.

TABLE OF MODULES

UPSTREAM CORE DOWNSTREAM

POTENTIAL
ENVIRONMENTAL UNITS / D.U. A1 A2 A3 A4 TOTAL
IMPACTS

GWP kg CO2 eq 449 100 111 54 713

ODP g CFC 11eq 0.053 0.018 0.002 0.010 0.083

POCP kg C2H4 eq 0.066 0.015 0.008 0.008 0.098

AP kg SO2 eq 1.4 0.4 0.2 0.3 2.3

EP kg PO43- eq 0.18 0.09 0.04 0.05 0.35

ADPE g Sb eq 0.0486 0.0002 0.0895 0.0001 0.1384

ADPF MJ 8 477 1 428 413 766 11 083

GWP Global warming potential

ODP Depletion potential of the stratospheric ozone layer
POCP Formation potential of tropospheric ozone photochemical oxidants
AP Acidification potential of land and water
EP Eutrophication potential
ADPE Abiotic depletion potential for non-fossil resources
ADPF Abiotic depletion potential for fossil resources

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RESOURCE USE PER DECLARED UNIT

UPSTREAM CORE DOWNSTREAM

USE OF
RENEWABLE
UNITS / D.U. A1 A2 A3 A4 TOTAL
MATERIAL
RESOURCES

PERE [MJ] 298 16 22 2 338

PERM [MJ] 0 0 0 0 0

PERT [MJ] 298 16 22 2 338

PENRE [MJ] 9 336 1 451 547 770 12 104

PENRM [MJ] 140 0 0 0 140

PENRT [MJ] 9 476 1 451 547 770 12 244

SM [kg] 1 047 0 0 0 1 047

RSF [MJ] 0 0 0 0 0

NRSF [MJ] 0 0 0 0 0

FW [m³] 2.19 0.10 1.56 0.04 3.89

PERE Use of renewable primary energy excluding renewable primary energy resources used as raw materials
PERM Use of renewable primary energy resources used as raw materials
PERT Total use of renewable primary energy resources
PENRE Use of non-renewable primary energy excluding non-renewable primary energy resources used as raw materials
PENRM Use of non-renewable primary energy resources used as raw materials
PENRT Total use of non-renewable primary energy resources
SM Use of secondary raw materials
RSF Use of renewable secondary fuels
NRSF Use of non-renewable secondary fuels
FW Use of net fresh water

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OUTPUT FLOWS AND WASTE CATEGORIES PER DECLARED UNIT

UPSTREAM CORE DOWNSTREAM

WASTE
GENERATION UNITS / D.U. A1 A2 A3 A4 TOTAL
AND TREATMENT

HWD [kg] 0 0 8 0 8

NHVD [kg] 0 0 28 0 28

RWD [kg] 0 0 0 0 0

CRU [kg] 0 0 0 0 0

MFR [kg] 0 0 112 0 112

MER [kg] 0 0 0 0 0

EEE [MJ] 0 0 0 0 0

EET [MJ] 0 0 0 0 0

HWD Hazardous waste disposed

NHWD Non-hazardous waste disposed
RWD Radioactive waste disposed
CRU Components for re-use
MFR Materials for recycling
MER Materials for energy recovery
EEE Exported electrical energy
EET Exported thermal energy

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CALCULATION RULES
The environmental burden of the product has been calculated according to
EN 15804:2014 and PCR 2012:01 v 2.3.

This declaration is a cradle to gate with options EPD type, based on the
application of Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) methodology to the whole life-
cycle system.
In the whole LCA model, infrastructures and production equipments are not
taken into account.

Cold rolled steel products at plant level were described by using specific data
from manufacturing facility (Lonato del Garda, BS, Italy) for year 2018.

Customized LCA questionnaires were used to gather in-depth information

about all aspects of the production system (for example, raw materials
contents and specifications, pre treatments, process efficiencies, air and
water emissions, waste management), in order to provide a complete picture
of the environmental burden of the system from raw materials supply (A1) to
Transport (A2) and Manufacturing (A3).

The use phase and end of life were not considered according to EN:15804
and PCR 2012:01 v 2.3 , while transport to final destination was considered
(A4).
According to ISO 14040 and 14044, allocation is avoided whenever possible
by dividing the system into sub-systems. A mass allocation criterion has been
applied to the steel mill process to consider the environmental impact of the
Greenstone construction aggregate made from steel slag.

Data quality has been assessed and validated during data collection process.

According to EN:15804 the applied cut-off criterion for mass and energy
flows is 1%.

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SCENARIOS AND ADDITIONAL

TECHNICAL INFORMATION
UPSTREAM CORE DOWNSTREAM

Scrap pretreatment Supplying transport

Billets production
Shearing
Hot and cold rolling process

Shredding Packaging
A1 A2+A3 A4 Market transport
Internal handling
Sorting
Ancillary materials and activities

Air emission
Raw material and
Energy production Water emission

Waste management

Broad scheme of Greenstone construction aggregate production, in which the main activities included in the system boundaries, are listed and divided in the three
subsystems: UPSTREAM Process, CORE Module and DOWNSTREAM Process.

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UPSTREAM PROCESS
UPSTREAM CORE DOWNSTREAM

Steel scrap collection (shredded both in exter- Production of alloy elements

nal and internal plants) and other raw materials
production

Scheme of the considered system

boundaries (Upstream processes)

Generation of electricity and other fuels from

Specific secondary materials pre-treatments, primary and from secondary energy resources
where appropriate (excluding waste treatments)
A1 - Raw Materials Supply

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CORE PROCESS
UPSTREAM CORE DOWNSTREAM

A2 - Transportation
Raw materials transportation from Hot and cold rolling, including utilities
production or collection facilities to the
production plant

Scheme of the considered system

boundaries (core processes) Packaging materials
Internal transportation

Steel mill production, Treatment of waste generated from the

including utilities manufacturing processes

A3 - Manufacturing

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DOWNSTREAM PROCESS
UPSTREAM CORE DOWNSTREAM

Transport to the customers (general market average).

Distances estimated considering the transported
quantities and the distances from Brescia's plant to
the client.

From Lonato (northern Italy) final products are

delivered to many national (53% of the total sold
product) and international areas (47% of the
total sold product) such as France, Germany and
Switzerland, mentioning the main countries.

The means of transport used to deliver steel bars and

coils can be truck, train and freight ship. On average,
cold rolled products are transported for 391 km by
truck and for 90 km by train.
A4 - Distribution

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OTHER OPTIONAL ADDITIONAL

ENVIRONMENTAL INFORMATION
Feralpi plant in Lonato del Garda (BS) is equipped with prevention and reduction
systems for air emissions, a recirculating loop cooling to minimize water
consumption and a waste management plan to prevent and reduce waste
generation,

In accordance with general EPD® requirements the LCA study used specific,
generic and proxy data. These last data are contributing to the environmental
indicators less than 10%.

OTHER ENVIRONMENTAL
UNIT UP CORE DOWN TOTAL
INDICATORS
Dust from electric-arc [g] - 1.60 - 1.60
furnace
CO2 from electric-arc
[kg] - 32.55 - 32.55
AIR furnace
EMISSIONS NOx from hot rolling
[g] - 20.10 - 20.10
process
SOx from hot rolling [g] - 0.17 - 0.17
process

WATER
Total Suspended Solids [g] - 0.158 - 0.158
EMISSIONS

Other environmental indicators per 1 t of cold-rolled reinforcing steel

Recycled content of cold rolled products > 95%

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REFERENCES
- EN 15804:2014

- ISO 14040

- ISO 14044

- Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) applied to steel mill products

and derivatives for EPD® purposes - final report

- EPD Italy General Programme Information V 4

- PCR ICMQ-001/15 rev2.1

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