Soudal at a glance: products, scale, and EPD gaps

Who Soudal is

Belgium‑based Soudal is a global maker of sealants, adhesives, foams, membranes, and related installation systems for windows, façades, roofing, and interiors. They operate at serious scale, reporting €1.46 billion revenue in 2024 and about 4,500 employees, plus heavy reinvestment in capacity (Soudal Facts & Figures, 2025).

They also publish production stats that explain their jobsite ubiquity. Soudal manufactures roughly 147 million cans of PU foam and about 333 million units of sealants annually, across 31 production sites and 82 sales offices worldwide (Soudal Facts & Figures, 2025).

What they sell, in plain terms

Soudal plays across multiple product families rather than a single niche. Expect polyurethane and hybrid polymer sealants, silicones, acrylics, grab adhesives, PU foams, construction chemicals, tapes and membranes, plus full window‑install kits under the SWS system. The SKU count runs into the hundreds when colors and pack sizes are included. Their Healthy House collection signals lower‑VOC, user‑safer choices inside those families, not a new chemistry on its own.

Where to find their sustainability stance

Their group‑level pages set goals around climate, packaging circularity, and emissions, with an expanding narrative in the annual report. See their sustainability overview and plans on the Soudal site here: Sustainability.

EPD coverage today

We looked for product‑specific, third‑party verified EPDs in major public registries commonly used by specifiers in Europe and North America. As of December 19, 2025, publicly visible coverage for Soudal appears limited. Memberships and marketing claims signal intent, but individual Soudal product EPDs were not readily discoverable in the usual places. If some exist, they are not easy to find for a specifier under deadline.

In practical terms, this means project teams may default to conservative generic values or competitor products with clear, product‑specific EPDs. That adds friction to being selected when carbon accounting matters.

What’s in the portfolio vs. what’s usually covered by EPDs

Sealants, foams, and installation systems are precisely the categories where competitors often publish EPDs because these items show up in LEED v5 materials accounting and owner vendor policies. Mapei’s silicone sealants, for exmaple, have current product‑specific EPDs listed publicly, and Sika routinely publishes EPDs across sealants, flooring resins, and roofing systems. Tremco’s building envelope lineup is also widely represented with third‑party EPDs. This is the comparison set Soudal typically meets in bids.

A likely bestseller without an easy‑to‑find EPD

Take Soudaseal 230HM, widely marketed in North America for window and siding joints. It is the kind of SKU architects shortlist for envelope details. We could not locate a publicly listed product‑specific EPD for this item in the main registries on the date above. In the same application slot, competing silicone and hybrid sealants from established brands do show up with current EPDs that can be dropped straight into a submittal. That difference can decide who gets the tick on a low‑risk spec.

Commercial impact of the gap

When a product lacks a product‑specific EPD, many owners and design teams must assign default or generic impact values. Those values are intentionally conservative. Teams aiming for carbon targets or LEED v5 often prefer products with verified EPDs because it protects their scorecard and reduces documentation churn. That preference nudges selection toward the brands whose EPD PDFs are one click away.

Where EPDs would move the needle fastest

• High‑volume sealants used on façades and window perimeters, especially silicones and hybrids in multiple colors.
• Gun‑grade and straw‑grade PU foams that drive large can counts.
• Firestopping sealants and mortars that show up in rated details.
• Membranes and tapes within the SWS window system, so the whole detail is “EPD ready.”

Prioritizing these first covers a broad set of MasterFormat divisions where Soudal competes daily and turns the most bids into wins.

Picking the right rulebook

For most of Soudal’s portfolio, existing construction product PCRs already fit. A smart LCA partner will align with the PCRs competitors use, factor expiry dates, and select a program operator recognized in target markets. In Europe, IBU is a common choice. For international coverage, EPD International is widely recognized. In the US, operators accepted by green building programs keep submittals simple. Timelines are improving but still tight, so plan verifier availability early if Europe is in scope (IBU FAQ, 2025).

Scale makes the case to act

Soudal’s published scale shows how much value is at stake once EPDs unlock higher spec rates at volume. With output in the hundreds of millions of units across foams and sealants, even small lifts in specification share compound into real revenue over a year of tenders and distributor pulls (Soudal Facts & Figures, 2025).

Competitive landscape to expect on bids

Regular rivals include Sika, Tremco, Mapei, Bostik, Pecora, and for fire protection details, brands like Hilti or Nullifire. All are active in sealants or adjacent envelope systems and many already place product‑specific EPDs in public registries. In healthcare, offices, education, and industrial builds, that can be the quiet tiebreaker.

A simple play to close the gap

Start with one chemistry and one geography where sales asks are loudest. Pull a lean but complete data package for a recent reference year, publish with a program operator your customers know, and expand to colorways and pack sizes with sensible groupings. The heavy lift is data wrangling across plants and SKUs. A white‑glove LCA partner that simplifies internal data collection will pay back in time saved and specs won, not just in an EPD PDF.

Bottom line

Soudal has the breadth, the brands, and the scale. What is missing is easy‑to‑find, product‑specific EPDs across the everyday sealants and foams that win envelope details. Closing that gap turns an already familiar label into the low‑risk choice for specifiers who live inside submittal trackers.