Validate environmental claims, protect your brand, and gain a competitive advantage in the marketplace.
Don’t just promise buyers that your product meets environmental requirements – prove it. Intertek’s Environmental Certification Program eliminates the confusion in the eco-labeling marketplace. The Program evaluates the environmental impacts of building products and materials, providing manufacturer’s confidence in promoting their environmental claims, knowing they have been certified by a leader, with more than 100 years experience providing testing, quality and safety for products worldwide.
Environmental Certification Program Components
The program is focused on single or multiple attribute certifications, and
consists of five key components:
1. Writing the Test Plan - During the generation of the test
plan for the product, careful consideration will be given to what claims can
meaningfully be made for it. Inappropriate claims (this fire door hinge
contains no asbestos, for instance) will not be allowed. Once correct
credentials are identified, nationally or internationally recognized test
standards will be utilized to validate these claims.
2. Initial Plant Inspection - The manufacturing facility
will then be audited by trained Intertek personnel to witness the production of
the test items and to gather the information necessary for the preparation of a
Quality Control Manual.
3. Creation of the Quality Control Manual - The Quality
Control Manual will adequately describe the methods and procedures utilized in
the product’s manufacture.
4. Performance of Verification Tests - Intertek will
perform tests based on the sustainable attributes a manufacturer selects such
as recycled content, solar reflectance, emissions, and energy efficiency, and
will then third-party validate the claims about the products.
5. Quarterly Plant Audits and Retest - After products are
issued certification, a routine program of unannounced, quarterly plant
inspections will begin to ensure the product is continuing to be manufactured
to a quality commensurate with this program.
Our goal is to stabilize the industry, not add to the “green claims” confusion.
We have a close relationship with the International Code Council - Evaluation
Services (ICC-ES) group that offers a similar program called
Sustainable Attributes Verification and Evaluation (SAVE). Consequently, the
first nine attributes of our new program are identical to those of the SAVE
program.
Attributes:
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