Luxaflex: product breadth and EPD reality check
Luxaflex is a familiar name in window coverings across Europe and beyond. Their portfolio touches most use cases in offices, healthcare, education and retail. Here’s a crisp look at what they make, how wide the range runs, and how well those products are currently backed by Environmental Product Declarations so sales teams don’t get caught flat‑footed when a spec calls for one.
Who Luxaflex is
Luxaflex is part of the Hunter Douglas family and focuses on made‑to‑measure interior and exterior window coverings for residential and commercial projects. Manufacturing sits across Scandinavia and Europe with project teams serving regional markets.
What they sell
Expect a broad menu: roller blinds, Duette honeycomb shades, plissé, verticals, aluminium venetians, wooden blinds and shutters, panel and curtain tracks, plus smart controls. Taken together, that’s multiple product categories with hundreds of configurable SKUs once fabrics, sizes, cassettes, guides and motor options are counted.
Their sustainability positioning
Luxaflex emphasizes material health and responsible sourcing. Examples include Cradle to Cradle Certified bronze ranges and FSC‑sourced wood. One public datapoint worth noting is that 70% of the wood blinds collection is FSC‑certified, a clear signal for projects with procurement screens (Luxaflex, 2025). Their Scandinavia team also quantifies ocean‑plastic content in Sea‑Tex fabrics with an estimate of 438 kg reused per 1,000 average roller blinds, which gives specifiers a concrete talking point (Luxaflex Project Scandinavia, 2025).
EPD coverage today
Based on publicly available listings as of December 2025, we do not see product‑specific EPDs published for flagship Luxaflex branded shades or blind systems. The brand leans on other credentials and material standards. That can be fine until a tender explicitly requires an EN 15804 or ISO 14025 EPD, which is increasingly common in larger commercial schemes in Europe and in enterprise real‑estate portfolios.
Why that matters commercially
When projects require a product‑specific EPD, offering only general eco labels creates friction. Without an EPD, design teams often must use conservative default factors in their carbon accounting, which can nudge a product out of contention on tight targets. With LEED v5 accelerating this shift, sales cycles run smoother when the spec sheet includes an EPD alongside familiar safety, IAQ and chain‑of‑custody claims.
A likely gap: roller blinds
Roller blinds are a workhorse in offices, schools and healthcare. We could not locate a Luxaflex roller‑blind EPD. Competitors do have published EPDs for shade systems or close substitutes, for example a motorized roller shade mounting system from Mecho valid in North America (EPD International, 2024). Several European manufacturers also publish EPDs for roller systems and guided blinds. In specs that require EPDs, buyers may prefer those alternatives even if performance is otherwise similar. That’s avoidable revenue left on the table.
Competitive set you’ll meet on projects
Direct shade competitors often include Mecho, Draper, Silent Gliss and Coulisse in interiors, with Warema and other façade‑shade players outdoors. In many bids the “alternative” is not another shade brand but a different solution that still satisfies glare and energy goals, such as high‑performance glazing or external screens. Motor and controls decisions pull in Somfy or building‑system vendors, which can sway the base product choice.
How to close the EPD gap fast
If priorities are roller blinds, venetians and Duette honeycomb shades, a pragmatic roadmap is to start with the highest‑volume roller systems and one or two core fabrics. Pick the same PCR families peers already use to keep comparisons clean during reviews, then extend to the next best‑seller. Keep data collection tight at the plant level and align on a recent reference year. Where fabrics have their own verified data, integrate it rather than reinvent it. Small, accurate steps beat an ambitious plan that stalls.
What the spec team needs from manufacturing
Two or three SKUs with fresh, third‑party verified EPDs can unlock dozens of tenders. Start with a fabric and operating system combination that dominates revenue. Confirm which regions you sell into so you publish under the program operator buyers actually check. Then make it boring to maintain the set annually. Sales and marketing can handle the rest.
Bottom line
Luxaflex shows real progress on material credentials and recycled content. The missing piece is product‑specific EPDs for staple project lines like roller blinds. Closing that gap protects margins and keeps the brand in the short‑list when EPDs are preferred or required. It’s not rocket science, it’s disciplined data collection and an experienced verification team handling the heavy lifting so your engineers aren’t stuck chasing invoices and meter readings. Do this once and the win rate moves, occationally faster than you expect.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does Luxaflex publish product-specific EPDs for common shade systems like roller blinds or Duette honeycomb shades?
As of December 2025, we could not find Luxaflex-branded, product-specific EPDs for those systems on major public registries. Their sustainability profile is built on other certifications such as FSC, Cradle to Cradle, and GREENGUARD.
Which Luxaflex products are most likely to benefit first from an EPD?
Roller blinds and their most-used fabrics. They are specified widely in offices, education and healthcare, so an EPD there reduces friction across many bids.
What competing products in blinds have EPDs today?
Published EPDs exist for motorized roller shade systems and guided roller blinds from several manufacturers in Europe and North America, which signals growing expectations in this category (EPD International, 2024–2025).
Do non-EPD certifications still help with specifications?
Yes. FSC chain-of-custody, Cradle to Cradle and GREENGUARD remain valuable for procurement and IAQ screens, but they typically do not replace a product-specific EPD when a project requires one.
How many Luxaflex SKUs are we talking about?
Broadly hundreds when you consider fabrics, sizes, cassettes, guides and control options within roller, venetian, vertical, plissé, honeycomb and shutters.
About the Author
With a passion for sustainability and a love for complex data, Toby helps manufacturers efficiently collect data from across their organization and get their EPDs done right. He’s especially interested in how AI can support human expertise, helping R&D and factory teams work faster, smarter, and with less friction.
