ECPI concludes LCA study on DINP - Plasticisers - Information Center
News ECPI concludes LCA study on DINP The European Council for Plasticisers and Intermediates (ECPI) commissioned PE International to conduct an LCA study with the goal to setup a PlasticsEurope Eco-profile and Environmental Product Declaration (EPD) of the plasticiser Di-isononyl phthalate (DINP).
ECPI concludes LCA study on DINP - European plasticisers
Published on 16.04.2015 ECPI concludes LCA study on DINP The European Council for Plasticisers and Intermediates (ECPI) commissioned PE International to conduct an LCA study with the goal to setup a PlasticsEurope Eco-profile and Environmental Product Declaration (EPD) of the plasticiser Di-isononyl phthalate (DINP).
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European Plasticisers concludes LCA study on DINP INTRODUCTION European Plasticisers (formerly European Council for Plasticisers and Intermediates - ECPI) commissioned PE International to conduct an LCA study with the goal to setup a PlasticsEurope... Read more
ECPI’s scientific letter on DINP published - European plasticisers
ECPI would like to remind all stakeholders that ECHA finalised an extensive risk assessment of DINP in 2014. Its conclusion was that the restriction on toys that can be placed in the mouth by children should be maintained, but that ‘no further risk management measures are needed to reduce the exposure of children to DINP […]’.
- What percentage of the European DINP production capacity was produced in 2011?
- This covers 90% of the European DINP production capacity (EU-27) in 2011. The data for the upstream supply chain until the precursors are modelled from literature sources or are taken from the database of the software sys-tem GaBi 6 [GABI 6 2013]. One company additionally delivered primary data for the production of the pre-cursor isononanol.
- How much is the European plasticiser industry worth?
- The European plasticiser industry’s market value is €2.12 billion. The EU’s Circular Economy Action Plan is one of the main building blocks of the EU Green Deal. This new action plan targets how products are designed, promoting circular economy processes, sustainab...
- What is the functional unit of PlasticsEurope eco-profile & EPD?
- The Functional Unit of this PlasticsEurope Eco-profile and EPD is: 1 kg of primary Di-isononyl phthalate (DINP), »at gate« (DINP production site output), representing a European industry produc-tion average. The critical review of the LCA study was established between July 2014 and January 2015.
- What are PlasticsEurope eco-profiles & EPDs?
- PlasticsEurope Eco-profiles and EPDs are prepared in accordance with the stringent ISO 14040–44 requirements. Since the system boundary is »cradle-to-gate«, however, their respective reference flows are disparate, namely referring to a broad variety of polymers and precursors.
- Which data sources were used in the data collection of DINP?
- The main data source was a primary data collection from European producers of DINP, providing site-specific gate-to-gate production data for processes under operational control of the participating com-panies: three DINP producers with three plants in two different European countries.
- What is a plasticizer EPD?
- This EPD is in-tended to be used by member companies, to sup-port product-orientated environmental manage-ment; by users of plasticizers, as a building block of life cycle assessment (LCA) studies of individual products; and by other interested parties, as a source of life cycle information.
