Some manufacturers celebrate their first EPD. Glamox AS is celebrating its next 17. This week's batch, published through EPD Norway, lands on top of a library that now stands at 456 current declarations in EC3, with only 3 expired. In lighting, that is a serious catalogue of verified carbon data.
For anyone specifying luminaires on carbon-tracked projects, this is good news. More Glamox fixtures now come with verified, product-specific numbers attached, so specifiers don't need to fall back on a placeholder.
Who Glamox is and why lighting EPDs matter
Glamox is a Norwegian lighting group with headquarters in Oslo. It makes professional luminaires for offices, schools, healthcare, industry, marine, offshore and wind energy. The group reported total revenue of NOK 4,447 million for 2025 (Glamox Group Annual Report, 2025), split between its Professional Building Solutions (PBS) division and its Marine, Offshore and Wind (MOW) division.
Lighting is easy to underrate in embodied carbon work. A single office floor can hold hundreds of near-identical fixtures, so one generic default multiplied across a building quickly adds up. Under schemes like LEED v5, and under Nordic building rules that require climate accounting, a product-specific EPD lets the design team use real numbers instead of a deliberately pessimistic estimate.
What is in the new batch
All the latest declarations follow the same pattern as the rest of the Glamox library. They are issued by EPD Norway (The Norwegian EPD Foundation) under the PCR Part B for luminaires, lamps and components for luminaires, and modelled to EN 15804. The newest EC3 entries cover workhorse product lines such as recessed panels and troffers (MODERNA 2, C61, C25 G2), linear lighting (KLAS, A1), high-output suspended fittings with tunable white (C52), downlights (D70), high-bay and industrial luminaires (RACER MINI, CYBERIA FX, FX65), and wall and ceiling fittings (O21).
The scope is the interesting part. These are not broad family averages. Each EPD is tied to a specific configuration: lumen package, HF or DALI driver, tunable white or fixed colour temperature. A specifier comparing a 4,100 lumen DALI panel with a 4,900 lumen HF version gets a separate declaration for each, which is about as precise as product-level data gets.
Glamox's own EPD documents name the LCA.no EPD generator as the tool behind them. Glamox has said it built the generator together with LCA.no and the Norwegian industry body for the design sector, and that EPD Norway approved it. That explains the volume: once a verified generator is in place, each new SKU-level declaration costs far less effort to produce than a one-off LCA.
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Deepening coverage, not chasing a new category
This batch is a deepening move. Glamox already had most of its core indoor categories covered, and its 2024 sustainability reporting said more than half of the products made by its PBS division had EPDs (Glamox Sustainability Report, 2024). The new declarations fill in more variants inside existing families. Specifiers rarely pick "a panel". They pick a particular lumen output with a particular driver.
The timing also helps with renewals. EC3 shows 47 Glamox declarations expiring in 2028 and 150 in 2029, so a steady flow of new and refreshed EPDs keeps that cliff from turning into a gap in coverage. Think of it as rotating stock on a supermarket shelf: the product stays available while the dates change behind it.
How the batch stacks up against rivals
The luminaire space is crowded, and the big players publish EPDs at scale. In EC3, Signify has 918 current declarations, mostly through EPD Hub, and Zumtobel Lighting has 824, published with IBU. Glamox's 456 put it firmly in that top group by volume, well ahead of Fagerhult (56 current EPDs) and Trilux (4 current EPDs, issued through PEP ecopassport).
This batch keeps Glamox competitive with the volume leaders rather than handing it a clear lead. Its real advantage is local. In Norway and the wider Nordics, EPD Norway declarations are the format specifiers and digital product databases expect, and Glamox is publishing straight into that channel. Against a smaller regional rival without SKU-level coverage, that difference can decide whether a fixture survives a carbon-driven value engineering round.
Making the EPDs easy to find
Glamox makes this easy. Its website has a dedicated page explaining its Environmental Product Declarations for Glamox luminaires that points visitors to EPD Norway, and individual EPD PDFs are linked from the product catalogue. That is exactly how it should work: a specifier on a product page should be one click from the declaration, not three emails away.
One small housekeeping point. A few of the newest records show validity data that looks unusual (one window starts in 2029), and several declarations appear to have reached EC3 some time after issuance. Shrinking the gap between verification and database listing, and keeping the metadata clean, helps specifiers find the right product while they are still choosing, rather than after the spec is locked.
Seventeen more reasons to stay on the spec
A 17-EPD batch is not flashy, and that is the point. It shows a manufacturer that treats environmental declarations like any other product data: generated systematically, published regularly and tied to the exact configurations people actually order. For a lighting company competing against Signify and Zumtobel, that consistency is what keeps Glamox fixtures in carbon-tracked projects.
The broader lesson for other manufacturers is that volume follows process. Glamox reached hundreds of EPDs by building a repeatable data pipeline, not by commissioning hundreds of separate studies. Teams wondering how to accomodate a growing catalogue in their EPD plans should start there. Congratulations to the Glamox team on another solid release.
