Emission factor from EPD Italy EPD, product-specific

FOMITH

Italy · Cradle to grave, embodied · Reference year 2026

Each kilogram of this product counts as 0.815 kg CO₂e over the modules its EPD declares: 0.657 to make it (A1–A3), 0.112 to deliver and place it (A4, A5) and 0.0465 at end of life.

Value per kilogram, over the modules the EPD declares

0.815kgCO₂e/kg

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

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

The one scenario this EPD declaresReference year 2026

Region
Italy IT
Boundary
Cradle to grave, embodied
Data quality
HighRated by us, not by the source
Licence
Open · EPD Italy terms
Declared by
Laston Italiana S.p.A.

Where 0.815 comes from

Derived by open-climate.ai

Σ 0.815: the four declared modules add up to the total. D stays beside it.

Reporting this kilogram under the GHG Protocol

This period

Scope 3, category 1 0.721 Scope 3, category 4 0.0476

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 0.0465

Outside the scopes, reported separately

  • D −0.123

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

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Materials › Chemicals · Italy · per kg · 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 Italy's method notes · impact method EF 3.0
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 kilogram. Each bar starts where the one before ended. Pick a module to read it.
Product
Con­struc­tion
Use
B1 to B7not de­clared
End of life
Beyond the boundary

beside the total, not in it

What this number covers

Follow one kilogram 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

    Included0.657
  2. A4-A5Construction

    Delivery and installation

    Included0.112
  3. B1-B7Use

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

    Not declared
  4. C1-C4End of life

    From demolition to disposal

    Included0.0465
  5. DBeyond the boundary

    Recovery after end of life

    Not in the total−0.123

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 CO₂e0.815
  • Biogenic CO₂e0.0566
  • Land-use CO₂e0.00719

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

From EPD Italy's record to a comparable factor

EPD Italy 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

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The four modules add up to the total; D stays beside it. Each opens its own page.

About this factor

From EPD Italy

What it is

1 kg of foaming agent. 1 kilogram of keratin hydrolysate-based liquid foaming agent, same use and functions as above. Overall quality: Very Good. Weighted DQR: FOAMCEM 2.08, FOAMCEM-H 2.02, FOMITH 2.03, FOMITH-G 2.06. Generic datasets: Ecoinvent 3.11 (cut-off allocation), SimaPro 10.2. No "poor" or "very poor" datasets. No "fair" dataset contributes >30% to any core indicator. Mass-based allocation applied exclusively to electricity consumption in A3 (excluding FOMITH-G, directly attributed). All other flows directly attributed based on product-specific primary data. No cut-off rules applied. All flows considered relevant. LCI data cover =95% of total mass and energy flows.

What it includes

"• Foaming agent dosage: 1–2% by mass of lightweight cellular concrete. • Density of cellular concrete: 300–500 kg/m³. • Foaming agent density: FOAMCEM 1.13 kg/L; FOAMCEM-H, FOMITH, FOMITH-G: 1.01 kg/L. • Typical applications: screeds, roofs and terrace slopes, fillings, road sub-base."

Where it applies

The FOAMCEM product family (FOAMCEM, FOAMCEM-H, FOMITH and FOMITH-G) consists of liquid foaming agents obtained through controlled mixing of water with organic and inorganic raw materials, including protein derivatives, surfactants, resins and mineral salts. Designed for the production of lightweight cementitious and gypsum-based materials. Applications: cellular concrete, foamed concrete, lightweight cementitious systems, gypsum-based prefabricated products. Intended for professional and industrial use (B2B). "• FOAMCEM: water 51%, protein-based raw materials 24%, additives 18%, solvent 2%, packaging (IBC) 5%. Produced via controlled alkaline hydrolysis (80–100°C). • FOAMCEM-H: water 65%, surfactant 22%, keratin hydrolysate 7%, packaging (IBC) 6%. Produced by mechanical blending. • FOMITH: water 65%, surfactant 22%, keratin hydrolysate 7%, packaging (IBC) 6%. Produced by mechanical blending. • FOMITH-G: water 69%, surfactant 21%, functional additives 4%, packaging (IBC) 6%. Produced by manual mixing."

Source and licence

Value
Summed by open-climate.ai from its parts
Publisher
EPD Italy (ICMQ)
Published
2 October 2026
Valid until
31 December 2031
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EPD Italy (ICMQ), EPD data from https://epditaly.lca-data.com. Normalised by open-climate.ai, https://open-climate.ai/factors/libraries/epd_italy/ (CC BY 4.0). https://open-climate.ai/factors/ef-epditaly-fomith-it-kg-cradle_to_grave_embodied-a54c2844/?v=efv1-ec6086bfcb945ed08faaeef95ab50daa

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