What landed in EC3 this week
Between 28 and 30 October 2026, Camfil AB added 11 new EPDs to EC3. As of 3 November 2026, the Swedish air filtration specialist lists 26 current EPDs in total, and twelve of them share the same profile: registered with EPD Norway, based on NPCR 030:2021 Part B for ventilation components, and valid until 1 January 2031. One of those twelve entries is labelled as a revision of an earlier Hi-Flo 592x592x520 six-pocket declaration, which explains why the count is one higher than the batch.
The products are all bag filters (also called pocket filters), split across three lines:
- Hi-Flo 0160: seven new configurations at depths of 370, 520, 600 and 640 mm with 6, 8 or 10 pockets, plus the revised 520 mm six-pocket version
- Hi-Flo XLT 0160: three ten-pocket configurations at 370, 520 and 640 mm
- Hi-Cap XLS CO60: one 370 mm six-pocket configuration
Every unit shares the standard 592x592 mm face dimension, which is the workhorse format of European air handling units. The EC3 records do not name a separate LCA developer or consultant.
One size, one declaration
This batch does not use one broad family EPD for many products. Each declaration covers a single configuration, identified by depth, pocket count and frame size. That's the difference between a restaurant posting "prices vary" and handing over the actual menu. A designer modelling a 640 mm ten-pocket Hi-Flo can pull numbers for exactly that filter rather than an averaged or worst-case proxy.
Granularity matters more for filters than for many building products. Pocket count and depth drive media area, material mass and pressure drop, so a six-pocket and a ten-pocket filter can look quite different on paper. Size-specific EPDs remove guesswork from the comparison and make the data easier to defend in a project carbon report.
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EPD Norway and the ventilation rulebook
Camfil's earlier declarations were mostly published through EPD International AB (the International EPD System). This batch goes through EPD Norway instead, under NPCR 030, the Norwegian Part B rules for ventilation components. The same PCR is used by ventilation equipment makers such as TROX and Novenco, and it has been adopted elsewhere in the Nordics. EPD International's own c-PCR-018 for ventilation components is also derived from it, and Camfil's French-made Opakfil ES and Absolute VGXL EPDs already use that version.
Using a PCR that is common in the category matters for comparability, because a PCR works like the rulebook in Monopoly: if two players use different rules, the scores don't line up. Camfil also says on its own sustainability pages that it is helping develop harmonised European complementary PCRs for air filters, so the company is shaping the rulebook as well as following it.
Building on an existing portfolio
Camfil was already active in EPDs before this batch. Its EC3 profile includes bag filter EPDs from its Swedish and Slovakian plants (Hi-Flo, Hi-Flo XLS, Hi-Flo XLT, Basic-Flo, Cam-Flo, Standard-Flo), compact V-bank filters and an H13 HEPA filter from France. These carry validity dates running out to 2027 and 2028. Its US arm also publishes Hi-Flo ES MERV 13 and MERV 15 EPDs, which can be found on camfil.com.
The timing is worth noting. Several older Slovakian declarations (including Standard-Flo A, Cam-Flo ES, Basic-Flo A and two Hi-Flo variants) were written under the now-expired EN 15804+A1 PCR 2012:01 and reach their end date on 15 November 2026. A fresh set of Hi-Flo EPDs valid into 2031 keeps Camfil's best-known bag filter line covered while that older group rolls off. That avoids the awkward period when a product goes from "declared" to "call us about it."
How the competitive set compares
This release shows the biggest gap with competitors. In EC3, AAF (part of Daikin) shows one current EPD: a DriPak GX ePM1 60% pocket filter at 592x592x635 with ten pockets, published through EPD Hub under a c-PCR for air filters that is still listed as under development. It is a direct counterpart to the new Hi-Flo and Hi-Flo XLT ten-pocket declarations, but it stands alone.
We found no current filter EPDs in EC3 for other big names in HVAC filtration such as Freudenberg Filtration Technologies or MANN+HUMMEL under those organisation names. That doesn't mean they have no declarations anywhere. It does mean a specifier searching EC3 for product-specific bag filter data will mostly find Camfil results. This batch adds depth in a category Camfil already led, and it moves the company further ahead.
Why declared filters are harder to swap out
When a designer or contractor has to account for embodied carbon and a product has no specific EPD, they usually fall back on generic or conservative values. Some frameworks add a safety factor on top. That makes an undeclared product look worse on paper than it may really be, so the declared alternative becomes the easier choice. An EPD protects a filter from being swapped out late in a project for one with better paperwork.
Filters add a twist. They are consumables replaced many times over a building's life, so a facility manager setting a long-term framework agreement is choosing something that gets bought again and again. Being the declared option at the start of that relationship pays off with every replacement. Manufacturers rarely see the tenders they never got shortlisted for, and that is exactly the revenue an EPD portfolio protects.
Visibility and speed: the last mile
Camfil has a dedicated EPD page on its website that links EPDs to product pages, mostly for its International EPD System declarations from Sweden. When we reviewed it, we could not find the new EPD Norway Hi-Flo and Hi-Cap configurations there. Adding them to that page and to each product page would let specifiers download the right document straight from the place where they already check pressure drop and dimensions.
Timing matters too. The EC3 records show a validity end date of 1 January 2031 but no issue date. If the usual five-year term applies, the declarations were issued around the start of 2026, which would mean a gap of several months before they showed up in EC3. Each week a verified EPD sits outside the databases specifiers use is a week it can't help win a spec, so shortening that gap is one of the simplest improvements a manufacturer can make on future releases.
Clean air, clear data
Camfil has turned its most common filter format into a set of precise, comparable declarations built on a widely used ventilation PCR, and released them as older EPDs approach expiry. In a category where many competitors have published little or nothing in EC3, that is a real lead in transparency. The next steps are to list the new EPDs on its own website and get future declarations into the databases faster. Neither takes as much effort as the eleven LCAs behind this batch.
