AMICO Building Products: EPD coverage at a glance
AMICO is a familiar name on stucco jobsites and rainscreen details. The question specifiers ask more often in 2025 is simple, though not always easy to answer fast: which of these products come with product‑specific EPDs that help a project hit its materials targets without friction?
Who AMICO is and what they sell
AMICO Building Products is the building‑envelope and finishes arm of Alabama Metal Industries Corporation. Their portfolio spans multiple categories used together on exterior walls and plaster assemblies. Typical lines include metal lath, paper‑backed lath, stucco and plaster accessories such as weep screeds, casing beads, control and expansion joints, architectural reveals, as well as HYDRODRY drainage and ventilation components for rainscreen walls. See their manufacturing and LEED information for a quick orientation on the division’s footprint (AMICO Manufacturing).
If you browse their catalog, you’ll see several distinct product families and hundreds of individual SKUs, from standard accessories to proprietary moisture‑management profiles. This is not a pure play, it is a broad kit of parts for stucco, adhered veneer and mixed‑cladding facades.
What we found on EPDs today
As of December 19, 2025, we could not locate any published product‑specific EPDs for AMICO Building Products across their lath, stucco accessories, or HYDRODRY items. That scan covered the company’s sites and the major North American program‑operator catalogs. If one exists that is not public, specifiers cannot use it during submittals, which is what matters commercially.
Why that matters on projects
EPDs are now a practical procurement filter. LEED still awards up to 2 points for teams that document enough qualifying materials with product declarations, and it sets thresholds for product counts and manufacturer diversity, which steers design teams toward manufacturers with public, product‑specific EPDs (USGBC, 2025). When your products lack an EPD, the team often assigns a conservative default that hurts the package. That is a quiet tax on winning specs.
Competitive pressure you will feel
AMICO’s day‑to‑day competitors vary by assembly and region. On metal lath, trims, and rainscreen components they frequently meet ClarkDietrich, CEMCO, Phillips Manufacturing, Stockton Products, Trim‑Tex, Plastic Components, Keene Building Products, Benjamin Obdyke and Tamlyn. Several of these peers publish EPDs in adjacent or overlapping scopes that help a project hit its material counts even if the exact item is different.
One clear example is steel framing. ClarkDietrich markets a low‑embodied‑carbon steel line, underpinned by an EPD and an optimization report, and claims roughly 30 percent less embodied carbon for those SKUs compared to their standard counterparts (ClarkDietrich, 2024). That does not replace a lath accessory one‑for‑one, but it does tilt a project team toward a vendor family that already “checks the box” across the wall system. In tight bids, that nudge matters.
What about industry‑wide EPDs
Cold‑formed steel framing has an industry‑wide EPD current through May 27, 2026, which many teams use for baseline documentation, even while they prefer product‑specific declarations when possible (SFIA, 2024–2026). If accessories and rainscreen elements lack their own EPDs, the rest of the wall may carry the documentation burden. That can put non‑EPD items on the bubble when substitutions are reviewed late in design.
Likely EPD gaps and quick wins
Based on the public catalog, the most commercially exposed gaps appear to be in three clusters.
- Rainscreen drainage and ventilation components such as HYDRODRY profiles and ventilation strips, which are increasingly specified on stucco, adhered stone, and fiber‑cement packages.
- Metal lath families, including paper‑backed variants used widely in residential and light commercial work.
- High‑volume stucco accessories, notably weep screeds, casing beads, control joints and reveals that show up on nearly every elevation.
These are high‑runner SKUs that repeatedly appear in submittal logs. A product‑specific EPD here reduces friction for the whole envelope package and avoids the penalty of conservative defaults.
Picking PCRs without wheel‑reinventing
A good LCA partner will check which PCRs competitors use, the renewal horizon of those PCRs, and which program operator best matches the intended markets. The practical play is to start with the products that drive the most line items and ship volume, then stage the rest in tranches so sales can immediately use the first set. We like to see data collection happen once, cleanly, across plants and variants, so updates and expansions are painless later.
Where AMICO’s buyers already look
Designers building stucco or mixed‑cladding walls often assemble systems from a few familiar houses. Competitors like ClarkDietrich also sell rainscreen mats and accessories, and moisture‑management specialists like Keene and Benjamin Obdyke anchor many details. If those catalogs accumulate enough product declarations to satisfy LEED material counts, the path of least resistance is to keep the package under one umbrella. AMICO risks being swapped unless its key SKUs show up in the EPD column. That is the spec game today, pure and simple, and it wont slow down.
The move now
Prioritize a first wave that covers a rainscreen set, a representative lath, and two or three high‑runner trims. Publish with a mainstream operator used by your target GCs and architects. Communicate clearly to channel partners and update submittal templates so an estimator can prove compliance in under a minute. Speed, ease, quality and completeness win the week here.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does an industry-wide EPD for cold-formed steel framing satisfy LEED material credits the same way as a product-specific EPD?
It counts toward the credit but with less weighting than product‑specific EPDs in most LEED pathways. Teams still prefer product‑specific EPDs for maximum scoring and audit confidence. The SFIA industry‑wide EPD is valid through May 27, 2026 (SFIA, 2024–2026).
Is there evidence competitors in AMICO’s orbit use EPDs to win specs?
Yes. ClarkDietrich publicly markets low‑embodied‑carbon framing with an EPD and optimization report, citing about 30 percent lower embodied carbon for select SKUs, which helps projects meet material goals (ClarkDietrich, 2024).
Which numeric LEED rule makes EPDs commercially useful in 2025?
LEED still awards up to 2 points for teams documenting enough products with EPDs and sets minimum counts across manufacturers, which pulls buyers toward catalogs with public product declarations (USGBC, 2025).
About the Author
Eric works at the intersection of sustainability, regulation, and business strategy, helping manufacturers navigate the evolving landscape of EPDs and LCAs. Having spoken with hundreds of teams across North America, brings a deep understanding of what drives ROI, what regulators are asking for, and how companies can stay ahead with smart, scalable approaches to environmental reporting.
