Xylem: pumps portfolio and the EPD opportunity

Where Xylem shows up in buildings

Xylem’s building‑facing lines cover HVAC circulators and boosters under Bell & Gossett, submersible wastewater pumps under Flygt, vertical turbines and end‑suction split case pumps, plus UV and ozone systems via WEDECO and filtration through Leopold. Add metering and analytics through Sensus and you get a Swiss‑army portfolio for water movement and treatment. The catalog spans multiple product categories and likely hundreds of SKUs across sizes and duty points.

Xylem is a diversified water player, not a pure play in one pump type. That helps them compete in healthcare, education, offices and industrial campuses where the same spec may call for clean‑water, wastewater and disinfection equipment. Their scale is visible in the numbers, with 2024 revenue reported at about $8.6 billion (Xylem Press Release, 2025).

EPD coverage today

Publicly accessible, product‑specific EPDs for common building pumps under Bell & Gossett or other Xylem brands are hard to find as of December 19, 2025 in major operator libraries. Earlier Flygt declarations existed historically, but most signs point to limited current coverage for mainstream HVAC and booster lines. Xylem’s corporate sustainability reporting is robust and up to date, which can support the internal data spine needed to generate EPDs quickly (Xylem 2024 Sustainability Report 2024).

If your sales team keeps hearing “send the EPD,” that friction is real. On projects tracking embodied‑carbon budgets, a product without a product‑specific, third‑party verified EPD often gets hit with a penalty factor in the carbon model, which nudges specifiers toward products that have one.

What they sell, at a glance

Bell & Gossett covers wet‑rotor circulators, end‑suction and split‑case pumps, packaged boosters and heat‑transfer gear. Flygt brings submersible drainage and wastewater pumps for pits and lift stations. WEDECO covers UV disinfection and ozone. Sensus adds metering and analytics. Across these families, the portfolio plausibly spans dozens of sub‑categories and hundreds of individual models when you account for materials, horsepower bands and controls.

Where gaps could hurt specs

Consider mid‑frame HVAC circulators and in‑line pumps. These are bread‑and‑butter items on office, education and healthcare projects. When these SKUs lack EPDs, design teams aiming for LEED v5 or internal embodied‑carbon targets default to competitors that publish declarations. You won’t always see the lost opportunity, because the product gets swapped earlier in the submittal chain. It’s a silent spec loss, not a dramatic price shoot‑out.

Competitors you’ll meet on the schedule

Grundfos often goes head‑to‑head in HVAC circulators and in‑line pumps and has published product‑specific EPDs for popular lines like MAGNA3, verified by IBU, with public communication dating back several years (Grundfos press release, 2019). In wastewater, Grundfos and KSB show up frequently, while Wilo is a familiar face on circulators in North America and Europe. Where these brands surface EPDs on core ranges, they become low‑risk selections for carbon‑budgeted projects.

A fast route to credible EPD coverage

Priority one is scoping by product family, not by plant. Start with HVAC circulators and in‑line boosters that appear on most spec books. Treat the relevant PCR as the rulebook and align to the operator your market recognizes most. In Europe, IBU‑aligned EPDs are widely accepted and benefit from mutual recognition pathways into other programs, which helps reuse the same technical work in multiple markets (IBU, 2025). Verification queues vary, and current guidance from IBU signals roughly six months just for verification, so shaving time off internal data collection is crucial (IBU FAQ, 2025).

A practical laddered plan looks like this.

1. Model or family EPD for a flagship circulator size range to unlock near‑term specs.
2. Extend to the main in‑line booster frame sizes.
3. Add a wastewater representative where facility programs frequently require it.

This sequencing covers the SKUs buyers ask about most, then backfills niche variants.

What “good” looks like, commercially

Good means your mid‑volume HVAC pumps, plus at least one wastewater workhorse, have current, downloadable, third‑party verified EPDs. Sales can answer the EPD request in one click, and estimators avoid carbon penalties that otherwise tip decisions. Marketing aligns spec sheets, BIM objects and EPD links so submittals feel seamless. That removes fricton in the bid room.

One more note on internal capacity

Collecting utility, materials, scrap and packaging data across multiple factories is the hard part. The verification step is a queue. The speed win comes from a partner and process that makes internal data pulls painless and organizes evidence once, then reuses it across sister SKUs and operators. That is how programs reach meaningful coverage in months, not years.

Resources

If you want to see how Xylem frames sustainability today, their report hub is a good starting point (Xylem 2024 Sustainability Report 2024). For context on verification timelines and mutual recognition across programs, see IBU’s public FAQ and guidance (IBU FAQ, 2025) and its mutual recognition overview (IBU, 2025). For a sense of competitor signaling around pump EPDs, Grundfos’ communication on MAGNA3 is instructive even if the press note is from several years ago (Grundfos press release, 2019).