Instyle Contract Textiles: products and EPD coverage

Where Instyle plays

Instyle Contract Textiles is an Australian interiors brand with two clear pillars. Ecoustic acoustic products made from PET felt for walls, ceilings, screens, tiles, baffles, and clouds. And a large range of contract textiles and vinyls for seating and wrapped panels. The company leans into circularity with a take‑back program and a long running LIFE Textiles initiative that predates today’s sustainability buzz.

What they sell, roughly how much of it

Across Ecoustic alone there are multiple panel thicknesses, dozens of surface prints and colors, plus companion screens, tiles, and ceiling elements. Add the textile library and you are looking at hundreds of SKUs across patterns and colorways. Precise counts are hard to verify in public, yet the catalog depth is obvious on product pages and in distributor assortments.

Sustainability pages worth a look

Two helpful anchors on their site are the LEED explainer, which lists Ecoustic lines that have carried EPDs in the past, and the LIFE Textiles section that outlines cradle‑to‑cradle style thinking and their Revive recycling program. See their LEED page and product‑by‑product callouts, then dive into LIFE Textiles for the stewardship philosophy (Instyle LEED, 2019, LIFE Textiles, 2025).

EPD coverage today

Public operator listings are the gold standard to verify whether an EPD is current. As of late 2025, we could not locate a live program‑operator EPD listing for Instyle’s Ecoustic lines. Their site still flags EPD in many product blurbs, which may reflect older documents awaiting renewal. That gap matters in bids where product‑specific EPDs avoid conservative default factors and keep a product in the running rather than treated as a paperwork outlier.

Likely best sellers exposed by the gap

Ecoustic Panel and Ecoustic Screen are common choices in education, workplace, and civic fit‑outs. When those SKUs lack a current, public EPD, specifiers often pivot to like‑kind PET felt systems with verifiable documents. Three frequently seen alternatives show active expiries today:

• Autex interior acoustic panels and tiles, with EN 15804 EPDs issued January 24, 2022 and valid to January 24, 2027. The Global GreenTag published list shows these entries clearly, and also flags some older families under renewal (Global GreenTag, 2024).
• Acoufelt US range including Cut, Laminated, Printed Panels, Single Plane Clouds, SoftenUp, and Truss Baffles. EN 15804 EPDs issued April 24, 2024 and valid to April 24, 2029, per Global GreenTag’s published EPD roster (Global GreenTag, 2024).
• 3form acoustic ceiling panels such as Clario and Seeyond. SCS EPD SCS‑EPD‑08683 valid February 13, 2023 through February 12, 2028, noted in the product EPD PDF referencing SCS as program operator (SCS Global EPD for 3form, 2023).

That trio covers many of the same applications Instyle targets for baffles, clouds, tiles, and direct‑fix wall or ceiling panels.

Who Instyle competes with most often

On acoustic PET felt systems, the short list includes Autex Acoustics, Acoufelt, 3form, Kirei, and regional PET panel fabricators that publish under major operators. On fabrics, competition widens to Carnegie Fabrics and others in contract seating, walls, and wrapped panels. In offices, education, healthcare and civic projects, these brands show up in the same schedules and moodboards.

What good EPD coverage looks like next

Map the Ecoustic catalog into tight product families. Publish one product‑specific EPD per family with clear thickness and color coverage, then keep renewal dates staggered so everything does not expire at once. If a new design launches midyear, a prospective EPD based on an initial production window can hold the line, then you true‑up to a full reference year later. That cadence keeps sales talking to carbon‑accounted projects without pause. It is simple, and it is definately worth it.

Why this is commercial, not just compliance

Many owners and design teams now run whole‑building LCAs where products without a current EPD get penalized in the model. A clean, operator‑hosted PDF removes friction for the spec writer, shortens back‑and‑forth, and protects margin because selection is not reduced to price alone. The heavy lift is data wrangling, not the math, so a process that makes internal data pulls painless is what actually accelerates time to a credible EPD.

Final take

Instyle offers breadth. Acoustic PET systems with design range, plus a deep textile bench and visible stewardship messaging. To compete head‑to‑head with Autex, Acoufelt, and 3form in carbon‑accounted bids, the play is simple. Refresh Ecoustic EPDs in public operator registries, make the mapping to SKUs unmistakable, and keep the renewal calendar visible to sales so momentum never dips.