BAUMIT Bulgaria’s first EPDs are live

What went live

BAUMIT Bulgaria now has five active, product‑specific EPDs covering a smoothed interior finishing compound, a family of facade paints, a textured topcoat render, intermediate compounds used to produce facade renders, and a quicklime CL 90 material. Several are product‑family declarations rather than single SKUs, which helps specifiers map options across common system builds.

Who verified and what rules apply

All five are published with EPD Hub as the program operator, aligned to the EPD Hub Core PCR v1.1 for EN 15804+A2. Validity runs into 2030 based on the listings. The LCA developer is not named in the public summaries, which is common when the operator template carries the core disclosures.

Why this matters in facade‑first markets

BAUMIT is known for ETICS systems, renders, adhesives, and paints aimed at residential and mid‑rise commercial work across Central and Eastern Europe. Getting EPDs live turns passive interest into actionable specification, since project teams can cite third‑party verified A1–A3 numbers and avoid conservative default factors that push products out of contention. This is the paperwork that keeps a line item from being swapped late in design.

Competitive snapshot

Saint‑Gobain Weber shows current EPD coverage for decorative renders, tile adhesives, and ETICS components across several European markets via operators like EPD International AB and INIES. Knauf’s regional entities list EPDs for ready‑to‑use finishing plasters and decorative plasters for ETICS under EPD International AB. Caparol has EPDs for facade coatings in multiple regions, including documents issued by IBU and EPD International AB. BAUMIT’s set lands squarely in this arena, so spec teams comparing renders and facades will now see BAUMIT alongside those brands instead of outside the shortlist.

A small twist that could help

Quicklime CL 90 appears in the new set as an upstream material. That is less common to see from facade‑system brands, and it can support system‑level LCAs when contractors or designers look beyond the finish coat. It signals supply‑chain literacy, which specifiers notice.

What it means commercially

For public tenders and private jobs that reward product‑specific EPDs, having declarations in the exact categories buyers search is the difference between being considered on performance and being treated as a price‑only alternative. The price of the EPD work is often dwarfed by even a single mid‑sized project win, and teams usually discover that the hardest part is data collection, not the math.

Website visibility check

BAUMIT’s site hosts an EPD hub page in Bulgarian with earlier declarations from 2021, including screeds, mortars, and an ETICS system, which suggests a transparency habit that predates this new wave (Baumit Bulgaria EPD page). We did not see the fresh 2030‑valid EPD Hub set on that page as of January 5, 2026. Posting direct links to the new PDFs helps sales and specification teams find them in seconds and is definately worth the update.

Selecting the right LCA partner, briefly

When manufacturers roll out a first set, the fastest ROI comes from picking the most specified families first, aligning to the PCR competitors already use, and planning renewals well ahead of 2030. The partner that removes the grind of site‑level data wrangling and keeps timelines tight tends to win hearts internally, because it frees R&D and plant teams to focus on the product rather than spreadsheets.

The takeaway

BAUMIT Bulgaria has entered the transparency arena with EPDs for the things it is known for, facade finishes and the layers just beneath them. Buyers now have apples‑to‑apples documents to compare against Weber, Knauf, and Caparol, which moves BAUMIT from maybe to must‑consider on many specs.