VEKA: products and EPD coverage at a glance
VEKA is a global heavyweight in PVC profiles and outdoor living components. Big footprint, many SKUs, and growing sustainability signals. The open question for specifiers is simple: where do product‑specific EPDs exist today, and where are they still missing for common project picks?
Who VEKA is
VEKA manufactures PVC profile systems for windows, doors, roller shutters, and sliding doors, plus sheet goods, surface technologies, and North American outdoor living lines. The group reports 1.5 billion € revenue, 54 sites, 23 production plants, and 3 recycling sites, supported by 490 extrusion lines (VEKA Group, 2025). The published goal is climate neutrality across the value chain by 2045 (VEKA, 2025).
What they sell, in practical buckets
Core is fenestration profiles under VEKA and GEALAN. Around that sit roller shutters and sun‑shading components, VEKAPLAN sheets, software tools for window design, and VEKA Outdoor Living Products in the US for decking, railing, and fencing. Across these families, the catalog spans several product categories with hundreds of individual profile extrusions when you add auxiliaries and finishes.
Rough scale of the lineup
- Fenestration systems: multiple platform families with dozens of base profiles each, often multiplied by color and surface options.
- Shading components: roller shutters, raffstores, textile screens.
- Outdoor living: deck, rail, fence lines with many profiles and colorways.
Count everything and you are easily in the hundreds for SKU‑level parts. That matters for EPD planning because one well‑chosen PCR can often cover a family rather than one single part number.
EPDs we can confirm today
The GEALAN brand within the group has a verified EPD for “Gealan plastic windows” under EN 15804+A2, valid to 2030 (EPD International, 2025). VEKA Germany also hosts five EPD downloads for glazing and shading on its site, covering 2‑pane and 3‑pane insulating glazing, roller shutters, external venetian blinds, and textile screens (VEKA Deutschland, 2025).
Where coverage looks thin
For the VEKA‑label PVC profile systems that fabricators specify most often, we could not locate a public, product‑specific EPD under a major operator as of December 18, 2025. That does not mean models cannot be published quickly. It does suggest a gap for common specs like SOFTLINE‑series profiles that regularly appear in bids.
Why the gap can cost specs
Many owners and design teams now prefer products with third‑party EPDs to simplify carbon accounting under emerging policies and rating systems, including LEED v5 credit pathways. Lacking a product‑specific EPD often forces teams to use conservative defaults that add a penalty, so a competitor with a current EPD becomes the safer pick. IBU’s database alone lists over 1,800 EPDs across 210‑plus members, which keeps raising the bar for “table‑stakes” documentation in bids (IBU EPD‑Online, 2025).
Competitors that already publish
Deceuninck publishes EPDs for PVC‑U windows based on EPPA references and has additional product EPDs in the EN 15804+A2 family (Deceuninck, 2024). Profine’s KBE and Kömmerling brands provide EPDs covering standard window reference sizes, which many specifiers accept for early design submittals (KBE, 2025). Even within VEKA Group, GEALAN’s current EPD can set expectations in markets where these brands compete or are cross‑listed (EPD International, 2025).
Product categories to prioritize for new EPDs
Start with high‑volume PVC profile families that drive most bids in residential and mixed‑use, then add a representative sliding system popular in multifamily. If outdoor living is strategic in the US, a product‑specific EPD for VEKAdeck would support municipal and campus work. The PVC upstream datasets were fully updated in 2022 with a 2023 revision, offering robust background data for fast modeling across S‑PVC and E‑PVC supply shares (ECVM, 2023).
Markets and swap‑in rivals
On PVC windows and doors, expect Deceuninck, REHAU, Profine, Aluplast, and Salamander to show up in the same schedules. On some projects, aluminum systems from Schüco or Reynaers can also be swapped in when program criteria tilt toward readily available documentation. Think of it like a pit stop in Formula 1: the car with the right tires already mounted gets waved out first.
What good looks like for the next 90 days
Pick the reference year, lock the PCR that peers use, and assemble plant data once per family. The best LCA partners reduce internal lift by organizing utility pulls, resin and additive inventories, and recycling flows without bogging down engineering. Publish with your preferred operator for Europe or North America. Then roll updates across sibling SKUs. Move quick, validate once, reuse often. It’s not magic, it’s process, and it pays back on the next RFP win.
Sustainability signals worth watching
VEKA and its GEALAN brand highlight bio‑attributed PVC and ISCC PLUS certification in 2024 news, and the group repeats its 2045 net‑zero aim in its CSR materials (VEKA, 2025). These signals help narrative, but the spec game is won with verifiable EPD PDFs that slot cleanly into digital submittals. Get those in place and specifiers make quicker calls when data isn’t thier.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does VEKA have group-level sustainability goals relevant to EPD projects?
Yes. VEKA publishes a climate‑neutral value chain goal by 2045, which aligns internal data collection for LCAs and supports quick EPD turnarounds (VEKA, 2025).
Which operators are most common for PVC window EPDs in Europe?
IBU in Germany and EPD International are both widely used, with thousands of EN 15804 records live and searchable. IBU reports 1,800+ EPDs across 210+ members as of 2025 (IBU EPD‑Online, 2025).
What background data supports fast PVC EPD modeling today?
ECVM’s Eco‑profiles and the PVC EPD were fully updated in 2022 with a 2023 revision, covering large shares of European capacity and providing current LCI baselines (ECVM, 2023).
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.
