Emission factor from Kiwa-EE EPD, industry average

Wardrobe shelf system BB23

Sweden · EPD total · Reference year 2024

Each unit of this product counts as 12.8 kg CO₂e over the modules its EPD declares: 11.2 to make it (A1–A3), 1.35 to deliver and place it (A4, A5) and 0.246 at demolition (C2, C3, C4).

Value per unit, over the modules the EPD declares

12.8kgCO₂e/unit

EN 15804 modules A1 to C4 · Fossil only · GWP100 · AR5

Derived by open-climate.ai: the sum of Kiwa-EE's published parts

The one scenario this EPD declaresReference year 2024

Region
Sweden SE
Boundary
EPD total
Data quality
MediumRated by us, not by the source
Licence
Open · Kiwa-EE terms
Declared by
AB Byggbeslag

Where 12.8 comes from

Derived by open-climate.ai

Σ 12.8: the six declared modules add up to the total. D stays beside it.

Reporting this item under the GHG Protocol

This period

Scope 3, category 1 12 Scope 3, category 4 0.558

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

  • C2 Scope 3, category 5 0.119
  • C3 Scope 3, category 5 0.124
  • C4 Scope 3, category 5 0.00304

Outside the scopes, reported separately

  • D −2.11

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

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Manufactured goods › Furniture · Sweden · per item · Average

EPD total · Fossil only · AR5

Boundary
EPD total
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 Kiwa-EE'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: partly covered

Medium 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
C1not 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

    Included11.2
  2. A4-A5Construction

    Delivery and installation

    Included1.35
  3. B1-B7Use

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

    Not declared
  4. C1-C4End of life

    Waste transport to disposal; C1 not declared

    C2 to C40.246
  5. DBeyond the boundary

    Recovery after end of life

    Not in the total−2.11

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 CO₂e12.8
  • Biogenic CO₂e0.0718
  • Land-use CO₂e0.0447

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

From Kiwa-EE's record to a comparable factor

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The total and its modules

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

About this factor

From Kiwa-EE

What it is

BB23 is a wall-mounted shelf system with wall rails, a shelf, consoles with brackets and a clothing rail for wardrobes, delivered unassembled. The wardrobe shelf system is available in lengths between 1253 mm (1 or 2 sections) and 4412 mm (7 sections). The wall rails and the consoles with brackets for the clothing rail are made of powder-coated steel, the shelf is a lacquered plywood board, the clothing rail is chrome-polished. Steel screws are used to mount the shelf. The EPD declares an average product of one shelf system with a lenght of one meter. ComponentWeight %Powder-coated steel rails and consoles with brackets 17Lacquered shelf 53.8Chrome clothing rail 13.9Steel screws 10.3 All data that is specific to the product and process was provided by the manufacturer for the operating year 2025 and is therefore up-to-date. The manufacturer and their production are located in Karlstad, Sweden. Background data was taken from the Ecoinvent 3.9.1 database. The database is regularly checked and thus complies with the requirements of ISO 14040/44 (background data not older than 10 years). The background data meets the requirements of EN 15804. The general rule was followed that specific data from specific production processes or average data derived from specific processes must be given priority when calculating an EPD or Life Cycle Assessment. Data for processes that the manufacturer cannot influence or choose, were supported by generic data. The scenarios included are currently in use and are representative of one of the most likely scenario alternatives. According to the criteria of the "UN Environmental Global Guidance on LCA database development" mentioned in EN 15804+A2, the data quality for all three representativeness categories (geographical, technical and time) can be described as good. The calculations have been performed in accordance with the “polluter pays” and “modularity” principles, as defined in EN 15804+A2. The following estimates and assumptions have been made for this EPD. The wardrobe shelf system BB23 is available in seven different sections of lengths between 1253 mm (1 or 2 sections) and 4412 mm (7 sections). The mass of materials was calculated by dividing all used materials by all sold BB23 lengths in 2025. The values for the energy and packaging materials are based on values given by the producer. The energy use for the electric truck and the cutting of clothing rail and shelf has been measured for one piece of BB23. The customer assembles the shelf system by themselves. The packaging consists of two parts: the product packaging and the packaging of the Euro pallet. The amount of packaging for the product is based on one piece of BB23 (1 m). It is assumed that 10 pieces of BB23 fit on a Euro pallet. The packaging for the pallet is therefore calculated as one tenth of the amount given by the manufacturer for the pallet packaging.

What it includes

The construction process is carried out by manual labor with hand tools.

Where it applies

The main purpose of the wardrobe shelf system BB23 is to provide storage mainly for clothes. The main customers of the manufacturer are other businesses.

Source and licence

Value
Summed by open-climate.ai from its parts
Publisher
Kiwa-Ecobility Experts EPD programme (Kiwa GmbH)
Published
2 October 2026
Valid until
31 December 2031
See the source data at Kiwa-EE

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Kiwa-Ecobility Experts EPD programme (Kiwa GmbH), EPD data from https://kiwa.lca-data.com. Normalised by open-climate.ai, https://open-climate.ai/factors/libraries/kiwa_ee/ (CC BY 4.0). https://open-climate.ai/factors/ef-kiwaee-wardrobe_shelf_system-se-unit-epd_total-eeb7c9bd/?v=efv1-b82da5061a0660943c9ae93f0f66e64e

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