ITT Water & Wastewater has identified the environmental impact of sold products as the most significant; therefore ITT Water & Wastewater has over the last decade worked hard with DFE, Design for Environment. The products' energy efficiency is particularly important, since the greatest environmental impact occurs as a result of energy consumption.
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DFE for ITT Water & Wastewater means that we consider the whole life cycle of our products during the design process. ITT Water & Wastewater´s R&D-department is working according to a Tollgate model where certain tests and documents have to be presented and verified before the tollgate can be passed.
In these tollgates there are included activities to verify the environmental performance of the new product; Life Cycle Assessments (LCA), checklists and a control against the ITT Water & Wastewater Black & Grey list of restricted material and substances.
This means that Life Cycle Assessments have been done for a majority of ITT Water & Wastewater´s product portfolio and that environmental issues are integrated early in the design process.
ITT Water & Wastewater has from the beginning been focusing on developing high quality products that are robust and have high efficiency. The aim is to offer the customers a solution that results in low costs during the life cycle of the product (Life Cycle Cost, LCC), high efficiency, low maintenance needs etc.
To communicate the environmental performance, ITT Water & Wastewater has produced EPD:s (Environmental Product Declarations) for some products. The EPD is intended to be used as a tool where customers can compare different products' environmental performance.
The EPD:s are comparable since they are third party verified according to ISO14025, in ITT Water & Wastewater´s case they are verified by DNV (Det Norske Veritas). The information in the EPD:s is based on Life Cycle Assessment of the products, the scope of the LCA starts with the extraction of raw material to the product and ends with the recycling of the product when it's taken out of service.
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