Rehlko: Generators, UPS, and the EPD coverage picture

Who Rehlko is, in one glance

Rehlko builds and services energy resilience across three businesses: Industrial Energy Systems, Powertrain Technologies, and Home Energy. The offer ranges from large diesel generator sets to UPS, transfer switches, switchgear, microgrids, enclosures, controls, and home standby units. Their sustainability hub outlines the strategy and objectives, plus highlights around HVO‑ready engines and data center solutions (Powering Impact).

What they sell and how concentrated it is

This is not a pure play. Rehlko participates in several adjacent product families that frequently bundle into one specification. Generators anchor the line. UPS and power distribution round out data center and healthcare packages. Automatic transfer switches, switchgear, and enclosures connect the dots. Across variants and sizes, the active catalog likely runs to the hundreds of SKUs.

EPDs on the board today

Rehlko has a registered PEP Ecopassport for a KD Series standby generator, model KD3750‑F, with coverage extrapolated to other K175 family ratings. That declaration carries validity through 2029 and sits in the PEP database under REHLKO (PEP Ecopassport KD3750‑F, 2024). On UPS, Rehlko communicates that several models hold PEP certifications, particularly in Europe, which aligns with how electrical equipment commonly publishes under the P.E.P program.

Where coverage is thin

We did not find public, product‑specific EPDs for key balance‑of‑system items like automatic transfer switches, low‑voltage switchgear, or data center enclosures. That is a missed chance in bids where owners prefer products with third‑party verified disclosures. The good news is that these categories fit cleanly inside established PEP rules for electrical and electronic equipment, so they are straightforward to scope and publish.

Why this matters commercially

Procurement teams increasingly penalize products without a verified declaration when doing carbon accounting. In those situations, the product with an EPD often surfaces earlier in shortlists, and avoids the extra paperwork burden being shifted onto a project team. The price of an EPD is frequently earned back with even a single mid‑sized spec win because fewer barriers equal faster selection. That is the quiet math sales leaders care about.

A practical example of lost visibility

Data centers buy racks and enclosures by the row. Rehlko’s eFRAME enclosures appear front and center in its positioning, yet we could not locate a public EPD for that line. Meanwhile, Schneider Electric publishes PEPs for competing data center hardware such as Galaxy UPS and power distribution units, with entries listed into 2025 in the PEP database (PEP database, 2025). That asymmetry can nudge specifiers to default to a known, document‑ready alternative.

Competitive set they face again and again

• Generators and large systems: Cummins, Caterpillar, MTU, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Himoinsa, FG Wilson.
• UPS and power distribution: Schneider Electric APC, Eaton, ABB, Vertiv.
• Enclosures and data center infrastructure: APC NetShelter, Rittal, Vertiv. These brands already place dozens of disclosures across electrical categories. The PEP program alone hosts well over five thousand registrations today, which signals how normal environmental declarations have become in this space (PEP database, 2025).

Fast track for Rehlko’s roadmap

Pick one reference product per family that moves revenue. For generators, the KD‑series approach already shows how a single, well‑documented unit can anchor extrapolations across a power range. For UPS and enclosures, align to the common PEP PCR and PSRs that peers use, so specifiers see apples to apples. The real unlock is ruthless data collection inside plants and supplier chains. A partner who shoulders the interviews, utility pulls, and process mapping frees engineering to stay on the line while the documentation gets built.

What “good” looks like

• Declare the hero in each family first, then roll coverage down the line.
• Publish at the program operator your customers expect for that category. For electrical, PEP Ecopassport is widely recognized.
• Keep renewal cadences visible to sales so they never get caught with a near‑expiry document late in a bid.
• Tie disclosures to clear commercial plays, like data center frameworks or health‑system standards.

The move that wins more specs

Rehlko already proved EPD viability on its flagship generator. Replicating that model for UPS, ATS, switchgear, and eFRAME would definitly remove friction in enterprise and public‑sector bids. When a submittal needs proof, having ready‑to‑download declarations turns selection from debate into muscle memory.