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Emission factor from EPD Danmark EPD, product-specific

Dista DMS 7 cm - EPD 2025

Europe · Cradle to grave, embodied · Reference year 2025

Each unit of this product counts as 0.54 kg CO₂e over the modules its EPD declares: 0.509 to make it (A1–A3), 0.0124 to deliver and place it (A4, A5) and 0.0177 at end of life.

Value per unit, over the modules the EPD declares

0.54kgCO₂e/unit

EN 15804 modules A1 to A5 · Fossil only · GWP100 · AR5

Derived by open-climate.ai: the sum of EPD Danmark's published parts

The one scenario this EPD declaresReference year 2025

Region
Europe
Boundary
Cradle to grave, embodied
Data quality
HighRated by us, not by the source
Licence
Open · EPD Danmark terms
Declared by
DM Supply A/S

Where 0.54 comes from

Derived by open-climate.ai

Σ 0.54: the four declared modules add up to the total. D stays beside it.

Reporting this item under the GHG Protocol

This period

Scope 3, category 1 0.516 Scope 3, category 4 0.00543

You buy the product for a building that is not yours. The product and its installation go to category 1, the delivery to category 4. The use stage belongs to the building owner; demolition waste you handle is category 5.

Later, when it happens

At end of life, in the year of demolition

  • End of life Scope 3, category 5 0.0177

Outside the scopes, reported separately

  • D −0.00856

B1 to B7 and C1 to C4 are not declared: nothing to report.

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Materials › Metals · Europe · per item · Supplier-specific

Cradle to grave, embodied · Fossil only · AR5

Boundary
Cradle to grave, embodied
Raw materials, inbound transport, fuel supply, fuel combustion, manufacturing, packaging, purchased energy, installation, outbound transport and end of life
GWP method
IPCC AR5, 100-year horizon
Not on the record; set from EPD Danmark's method notes · impact method EF 3.1
CO₂e basis
Fossil only
Split by carbon origin, not by gas
Life cycle
Upstream: coveredProduction: coveredDownstream: partly coveredEnd of life: covered

High quality · Open licence · Any year

Module by module, up to the total

Seventeen EN 15804 modules, always in the same order. Each declared one moves the running total. D sits below zero after the total, because it is reported beside it.

kgCO₂e per unit. Each bar starts where the one before ended. Pick a module to read it.
Product
Con­struc­tion
Use
B1 to B7not de­clared
End of life
C4not de­clared
Beyond the boundary

beside the total, not in it

What this number covers

Follow 1 unit of this product through EN 15804's stages. The total counts what the EPD declares; what it leaves out stays visible.

  1. A1-A3Product

    Materials and making the product

    Included0.509

  2. A4-A5Construction

    Delivery and installation

    Included0.0124

  3. B1-B7Use

    The product in service: maintenance, repair, replacement and the energy and water it uses

    Not declared

  4. C1-C4End of life

    Demolition to waste processing; C4 not declared

    C1 to C30.0177

  5. DBeyond the boundary

    Recovery after end of life

    Not in the total−0.00856

Outside this boundary

  • Maintenance
  • Retail
  • Use phase
  • Recycling credit

Maintenance is out because B2 is not declared. The recycling credit is module D, shown beside the total.

Gases

  • Fossil CO₂e0.54
  • Biogenic CO₂e0.0162
  • Land-use CO₂e0.00153

The total counts fossil CO₂e. EPD Danmark reports biogenic and land-use CO₂e separately; they are shown beside it, not added.

From EPD Danmark's record to a comparable factor

EPD Danmark publishes this EPD with one value per module. Each field as printed, and what open-climate.ai made of it.

The total and its modules

Use a module on its own when you report it in a different year or scope; never add one to the total.

You are here · the EPD total0.54
D beside−0.00856
The four modules add up to the total; D stays beside it. Each opens its own page.

About this factor

From EPD Danmark

What it is

Dista DMS is a spacer made of steel, which is used for double reinforcement. It is placed between the lower and upper layers of reinforcement or between internal and external reinforcement in walls. Dista DMS is produced in heights from 60-240 mm, in intervals of 10 mm.

What it includes

Baggrundssystem: Opstrømsprocesser & nedstrømsprocesser er modelleret med gridmix for de relevante områder. Yderligere information om produkterne kan findes på producentens hjemmeside: https://dmsupply.dk/

Where it applies

Dista-produkterne anvendes til at sikre den korrekte placering og afstand mellem det øverste og nederste lag armeringsjern i dobbeltarmerede betonelementer. Produktet indstøbes i betonelementerne og påvirker ikke styrken eller de strukturelle egenskaber af de færdige betonelementer.

Source and licence

Value
Summed by open-climate.ai from its parts
Publisher
EPD Danmark (Teknologisk Institut)
Library
EPD Danmark EPD_DANMARK_2026-10-02
Published
2 October 2026
Valid until
31 December 2025
See the source data at EPD Danmark
EPD Danmark's terms of use Open

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Credit it with this lineEPD Danmark (Teknologisk Institut), EPD data from https://data.epddanmark.dk
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Cite this factor

EPD Danmark (Teknologisk Institut), EPD data from https://data.epddanmark.dk. Normalised by open-climate.ai, https://open-climate.ai/factors/libraries/epd_danmark/ (CC BY 4.0). https://open-climate.ai/factors/ef-epddanmark-dista_dms_dista_dms_7_cm-europe-unit-cradle_to_grave_embodied-c031ea32/?v=efv1-f9711b37f5c83dca790db813e791f9b9

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