Kenall Lighting: EPD readiness for a niche leader
Kenall owns the hard‑to‑light spaces most brands avoid: cleanrooms, correctional, behavioral health, transit, tunnels, and food processing. The product story is strong. The question many specifiers ask now is simple yet costly if unanswered: where are the Environmental Product Declarations for these luminaires?
Who Kenall is, and what they sell
Kenall is a Legrand brand focused on sealed, tamper‑resistant, and abuse‑rated luminaires for mission‑critical environments. Their portfolio spans cleanroom and containment, healthcare, correctional and behavioral health, food processing, parking, transit and tunnels, plus education and public spaces. Product families like SimpleSeal and Mighty Mac anchor the range, with options for IP ratings, anti‑ligature forms, and specialized optics. Across families and sizes, the catalog reaches into the hundreds of SKUs, not just a handful.
If you want a flavor of their sustainability stance, Kenall hosts a brief overview aligned to Legrand’s CSR roadmap on its site (Kenall Sustainability).
Product coverage in categories, at a glance
Kenall is not a single‑product specialist. They play across multiple categories: sealed troffers and downlights for ISO and BSL spaces, behavioral health fixtures combining medical function with detention‑grade construction, high‑abuse surface mounts, as well as fixtures for garages, platforms, and underpasses. For many buyers, this makes Kenall a one‑stop shop when projects span clinical areas, labs, and secured spaces.
EPDs: what we can and cannot find today
As of December 19, 2025, we do not see Kenall‑branded EPDs published on major public registries or clearly linked from product pages. That does not mean LCAs are absent internally, only that specifiers cannot download a third‑party verified declaration for submittals. Given how often owners prefer products with product‑specific EPDs, this is a real spec friction point.
Your likely best seller without an EPD
A good example is Kenall’s cleanroom troffer line. The shallow‑plenum CSSGI, introduced in 2x2 and 2x4 sizes, targets ISO 3–8 cleanrooms with IP66 and NSF2 listings, exactly the spaces where submittal paperwork is meticulous (Kenall press release, 2023). Without a product‑specific EPD, project teams pursuing corporate carbon goals or LEED v5‑aligned materials credits will often shortlist competing fixtures that provide one. That means more substitutions and longer back‑and‑forth in review cycles.
What competitors are doing
Lighting peers are publishing EPDs at scale or model level. Signify reports more than 2,000 EPDs covering about 70,000 product variations across its portfolio, an explicit play for spec transparency (Signify press release, 2024). Fagerhult provides model‑level EPDs and even showcases declared cradle‑to‑gate carbon for new luminaires; its Wrapped pendant lists 11.7 kg CO₂e for A1–A3 on the product page with EPD download links (Fagerhult Wrapped EPD, 2025). These are the kinds of references reviewers paste into submittals with zero drama.
Competitors Kenall meets often on projects include Signify’s Cooper Lighting for healthcare and infrastructure, Acuity Brands for healthcare and behavioral health, and European spec brands like Fagerhult, XAL, and Zumtobel in institutional and office adjacencies. When these brands present EPD‑backed options that meet the same photometric and durability specs, procurement has less reason to hold exceptions for non‑declared fixtures.
Why EPDs matter commercially here
In owner‑driven and public work, a product‑specific EPD removes a penalty in carbon accounting that otherwise forces teams to assume conservative impacts. With an EPD, your luminaire competes on performance and availability, not on whether reviewers can do a compliant carbon tally. The price of producing a robust EPD is frequently recovered by winning even a single mid‑sized package where declared products are preferred. We see that tradeoff play out week after week.
How to build the Kenall EPD set fast
Think Monopoly rulebook. The PCR is the rulebook, the program operator is the referee, and your LCA is the game. For luminaires, the common paths are EN 15804‑based programs such as the International EPD System, or electrical‑focused schemes used by large lighting groups. A smart plan prioritizes families with the highest spec frequency and broadest configurability to maximize coverage from each declaration.
Start here, keep it simple:
- Phase 1: one cleanroom troffer family and one behavioral health family, modeled to cover the most common options by lumen package and optics. Publish where your biggest customers download first.
- Phase 2: a sealed downlight and a high‑abuse surface mount for corridors, dayrooms, and exam adjacencies. Extend the EPD to cover the majority of shipped variants by defining parameterized configurations.
- Phase 3: parking or platform luminaires used in healthcare campuses and transit nodes, to support campus‑wide material disclosure.
If you want a proxy for the bar, several luminaire EPDs are visible on operator libraries today, from workhorse downlights to slim pendants, which helps align your functional boundaries and declared unit with reviewer expectations (EPD International luminaire listings, 2025).
Data and workflow, without the pain
EPDs get slow when data gathering drags. The fastest programs minimize plant time, ask for the right data once, and translate it into declarations across multiple program operators without rework. White‑glove coordination matters most in complex buildigns where sealed construction, special gasketing, and anti‑ligature hardware vary by SKU.
Bottom line
Kenall already wins the toughest applications on performance. Matching that with a visible, downloadable set of product‑specific EPDs for cleanroom, behavioral health, and high‑abuse families will reduce submittal friction and expand spec share. The market signals are clear, and the path is straightforward when the data collection is handled with care.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does Kenall currently publish product‑specific EPDs for its luminaires?
As of December 19, 2025, we could not find Kenall‑branded EPDs on public operator registries or linked from product pages. That may change, so check their site periodically.
Which Kenall product families should be prioritized for first EPDs?
Start with a cleanroom troffer family and a behavioral‑health fixture family to unlock the most specifications, then add a sealed downlight and a high‑abuse surface mount used in corridors and dayrooms.
Which competitors commonly show EPDs for comparable luminaires?
Signify’s Cooper Lighting brands, Fagerhult, XAL, and Zumtobel frequently provide EPDs at model or family level, making submittals easier for healthcare and institutional projects.
Which program operator and PCR fit luminaires?
Common routes are EN 15804‑based programs like the International EPD System and electrical‑focused schemes used by large lighting groups. The choice should follow the competitor set your customers compare against and the geographies you sell in.
Will older EPDs hurt specification chances?
If the EPD is current within its validity window, most reviewers accept it. Renewal timing matters only as it nears expiry in the next few months.
About the Author
Walker Ryan is a climate-tech entrepreneur focused on driving industrial decarbonization through better data. As the founder and CEO of Parq, he helps manufacturers generate high-quality, third-party–verified carbon disclosures at scale—accelerating a traditionally slow and expensive process. Before starting Parq, Walker led over $200 million in sustainability-focused investments as VP of Strategy & Growth at ReStream Solutions, following earlier experience in investment banking at Deutsche Bank. He brings a rare mix of capital markets expertise and hands-on sustainability knowledge to tackling the infrastructure of industrial emissions.
