Congratulations to ASSA ABLOY. EC3 picked up a batch of 34 new Environmental Product Declarations from the company on November 7, 2026. That makes it one of the largest single-week releases we've seen this year from a door hardware manufacturer. It's also a smart one. These products sit in Division 08, where an architect or contractor might write the same hollow metal door or mortise cylinder into hundreds of openings on a single project.
Who ASSA ABLOY is and why this batch matters
ASSA ABLOY is the world's largest maker of door opening solutions. In 2025 it reported record sales of SEK 152,409 million (ASSA ABLOY Annual Report, 2025). In North America, its brands cover almost every part of a commercial opening: Ceco, Curries, Pioneer, Stiles and Concept Frames for hollow metal; Sargent, Corbin Russwin and Medeco for locking; and Rixson, Rockwood, McKinney and Pemko for hardware.
Take that breadth and multiply it by the number of openings in a hospital or school, and transparency stops being a nice-to-have. As of November 9, 2026, EC3 lists 269 current EPDs under ASSA ABLOY's main manufacturer profile. That's already a deep bench, and this release makes it deeper.
What's inside the 34 new declarations
The batch covers the whole door opening. All the new records are valid until October 20, 2026 + 5 years (October 2031), and they fall into a few clear groups:
- Hollow metal doors (the largest group): Stiles Custom Metals steel stiffened, honeycomb, polystyrene and temperature rise cores; Pioneer Industries HT, HP, LW and HR series; Concept Frames temperature rise and expanded polystyrene core doors; and the H-HF-CH honeycomb series.
- Steel frames: Standard Hollow Metal Frames, Masonry Frame, the Mercury Thermal Break Frame and Concept Frames Faceless Frames.
- Medeco security: Medeco 4, XT and M3 CLIQ mortise cylinders, key-in-knob cylinders, an XT SFIC, and the matching keys.
- Door controls and hardware: Rixson 70 and 90 Series overhead concealed closers, the Rixson M19 pivot, Norton-Rixson 999M electromagnetic holders, Rockwood flush bolts, coordinators and a dust proof strike, and McKinney heavy weight hinges.
- Sargent locking and egress: the 10X Line cylindrical lock, DL Series latches and the 8500 Series narrow stile exit device.
Most of these are product-specific declarations for named series, not broad industry averages. Several product descriptions cover edge-construction variants, steel gauges or core options inside one family. That suits specifiers, who usually write to a series anyway.
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Renewal timing that protects existing specs
The timing makes this release especially sharp. Several of ASSA ABLOY's earlier hollow metal declarations in EC3 run out on December 19, 2026. That list includes the Stiles hollow metal frame, the Stiles steel stiffened fiberglass door, the Stiles polystyrene core door, the Concept custom hollow metal door and the Mercury Thermal Break Frame. This batch publishes fresh versions of those same product lines about six weeks before the old ones lapse.
Think of it as swapping the tires during the pit stop rather than after the blowout. Specifiers modeling embodied carbon can keep these products in their models without a gap. Without a valid product-specific EPD, they would have to use conservative generic values, often with an added penalty, and that is exactly when a substitution request starts to look attractive.
The batch also adds products that previously had no record under this profile, especially the Medeco and Pioneer lines. So it extends coverage as well as renewing it.
How the batch stacks up against competitors
Door hardware is a crowded field, and EPD coverage varies widely. Based on EC3 data as of November 9, 2026:
- Allegion (Schlage, Von Duprin, LCN, Steelcraft) has about 20 current EPDs under its main profile. A meaningful share of its records expire in 2026 and 2027.
- dormakaba International lists 122 current EPDs, mostly published through IBU and aimed at European markets. Its strength is automatic doors, operators and revolving doors.
- Hager Companies has a smaller set of current declarations, including new Smart EPD listings for locksets and closers.
- In hollow metal specifically, Daybar Industries published 14 door and frame EPDs in mid-2026 through Sustainable Minds.
Against that field, this batch is a deepening move, not a catch-up move. ASSA ABLOY already led on volume in North American door hardware. Now it has fresh, long-dated declarations in exactly the categories where competitors either have thinner coverage or face renewal deadlines of their own. For hollow metal especially, refreshing well over a dozen door and frame records at once makes it harder for a newer competitor to win on transparency alone.
Who issued them and what EC3 shows
The EC3 records for this batch don't yet list a program operator or LCA developer, so we can't confirm either from the data. Historically, ASSA ABLOY's North American door and hardware declarations have mostly been published through UL. Sustainable Solutions Corporation appears often as the LCA developer, and some recent Pemko records list Industrial Ecology Consultants. Filling in those fields on the EC3 records would help project teams who filter by operator or PCR.
One more detail is worth noting. The validity dates suggest these EPDs were issued around October 20, 2026, but they didn't show up in EC3 until November 7. That's a gap of roughly two and a half weeks. It isn't unusual, but every day a published EPD stays out of the databases specifiers search is a day it can't help win a spec. Manufacturers who want future declarations listed faster can reach out to me directly; my contact details are below this article.
Make the EPDs easy to find
ASSA ABLOY already hosts many individual EPD PDFs for its Americas brands in its online document library, and some regional sites have "EPDs listed" pages. What we couldn't find was one obvious North American hub where a specifier can see all 34 new declarations next to the product pages they support.
That's worth fixing quickly. Most specifiers won't search a dozen brand sites, and they will move on if a PDF takes three clicks to find. A single, filterable EPD page per brand, linked from each product's spec section, would turn this batch into something sales teams can actually send to customers.
A milestone built for the long run
Thirty-four declarations in one release is a real operational achievement. It means coordinating plant data across several facilities, brands and product families. ASSA ABLOY renewed its expiring hollow metal coverage on time, added new Medeco and Pioneer lines and extended validity into late 2031. As carbon budgets get tighter on commercial projects, a portfolio with no gaps is what keeps a door, frame or cylinder in the spec through value engineering. With this batch, ASSA ABLOY has closed several of those gaps before competitors could exploit them.
