Congratulations Elfa International AB, first EPD is live

What just launched

Elfa International AB has its debut Environmental Product Declaration on the board. The declaration covers a representative family of melamine shelves and side panels used in Elfa’s wall‑mounted and freestanding storage systems, published with the program operator EPD Hub in December 2025. Scope is product‑specific at the family level, not a one‑off SKU, which is exactly what specifiers look for when a system uses common substrates and finishes.

What it means in practice, design teams can now reference a verified, product‑specific EPD for Elfa’s melamine shelf components instead of falling back to generic defaults that often penalize embodied‑carbon modeling in fit‑out packages.

The essentials, in one glance

• Product coverage: melamine shelves and side panels for Elfa storage systems, representative across sizes and finishes.
• Program operator: EPD Hub, a digital‑native operator recognized by ECO Platform for EN 15804 EPDs (EPD Hub, 2025).
• Publication timing: December 2025.

Why this matters now

Shelving and casework live inside interior packages that increasingly track carbon alongside cost. When a product lacks a product‑specific EPD, whole‑building LCA tools apply conservative proxies, which quietly nudge buyers toward alternatives that have paperwork ready. A current, verified EPD keeps Elfa in the shortlist without forcing price‑only comparisons.

Company snapshot

Elfa builds modular storage systems, from wall tracks and brackets to solid shelves and sliding doors, sold across home improvement, retail, and project channels. The brand is a staple in closets and utility rooms, but it also appears in office back‑of‑house and small commercial storage where durable melamine shelves make sense.

Competitive read, based on today’s EPD footprint

In high‑density and library‑grade storage, Montel appears in EC3 with product‑specific EPDs for multiple shelving systems verified by CSA Group. Different end use than Elfa’s home‑centric kits, but it shows storage peers already compete with verified declarations at the product level.

Upstream on materials, wood‑panel producers that feed shelves and casework are well documented. Kronospan’s European sites and group companies publish product‑specific EPDs for melamine‑faced particleboard and MDF through operators including EPD Hub and IBU, which many casework suppliers lean on in submittals. EGGER lists EPDs for decorative boards and MDF across European operators, giving project teams familiar references when comparing shelf substrates. For context, see recent spotlights on Kronospan Luxembourg and EGGER.

The takeaway, Elfa has clearly entered the transparency arena in its core shelf family. That helps close the gap with storage specialists already publishing product EPDs, while also aligning neatly with the panel makers whose data often underpins interior fit‑outs.

About the program operator

EPD Hub is a fast‑growing program operator that verifies Type III EPDs in line with EN 15804 and ISO 14025. In December 2025, EPD Hub was recognized by ECO Platform as an Established ECO EPD Programme Operator, which means eligible EPDs can carry the ECO EPD mark and appear in the ECO Portal for wider discovery (EPD Hub, 2025). If your team is weighing operators, here is a plain‑language overview of EPD Hub’s model and rules on EPD Guide, including recent rule updates (EPD Hub overview, 2026).

What product teams can do next

• Extend coverage to adjacent parts that often appear on the same schedule, for example closet rods, click‑in shelf variants, steel brackets, and accessory sets. A small set of family EPDs can cover most kit combinations without overwhelming documentation.
• Keep the data flow simple for busy plants. Standardize bill‑of‑materials snapshots and utility pulls for one reference year, then reuse that pattern when renewing or adding SKUs. That is how EPD portfolios scale without sapping engineering time.

Website visibility check

We looked for a public EPD library or sustainability page on elfa.com and did not find a dedicated EPD download yet. Visibility matters, because specifiers expect to pull PDFs quickly during submittals. Add a simple EPDs and certificates page under About or Downloads, link the verified PDF, and mirror it in common data hubs. If a page exists and we missed it, ping us and we will update. If it doesnt, consider this a quick win the team can ship this quarter.

A crisp close

First EPD in the books, aligned to a recognized operator, for a product family that shows up in real projects. That opens doors in bids where verified impacts are a must, and it sets a clean blueprint for expanding coverage across the rest of the Elfa storage line.