Certification

ISO 14001 Environmental Management System

We have certified all larger sites and the vast majority (94%) of all our manufacturing facilities to the internationally recognized ISO 14001 environmental management standard and now have 79 certified sites around the world. Our Automotive business was one of the first in the automotive industry to achieve a corporate certificate for environmental management already in 2003. A single ISO 14001 certificate covers relevant group functions and all of our Automotive plants worldwide, since then.

ISO 50001 Energy Management System

We have maintained ISO 50001 certification across all operations in Germany, Italy, Finland. Investment in sub-metering hardware and software installations allows a high level of transparency in energy consumption and enables a sophisticated energy planning process with improvement activities, target setting and frequent reviews.

Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs)

EPDs allow NSG to identify raw material supplier and manufacturing process hotspots. They also allow architects to access environmental information and complete sustainability assessments of buildings. The Architectural Europe business has published 32 EPDs for various flat glass products according to ISO 14025 and EN 15804.

The German Institute of Building and Environment (IBU) awarded EPDs for Pilkington Pyrostop^® and Pilkington Pyrodur^® fire-resistant glass. NSG Group received Japan's first EPD for architectural glass products, including float, insulated glass units, laminated and toughened glass.

In 2018, the NSG Group became the first company in Japan to obtain Environmental Product Declaration (EPD) certification for architectural glass products, including float glass, insulating glass, laminated glass and tempered glass. However, we have since shifted our focus to the calculation of Carbon Footprint of Products (CFP) values.
In recent years, high-performance glass products with various configurations have increasingly been used to meet requirements related to energy efficiency, disaster resilience and safety. At the same time, demand for whole-life carbon data for such products is also growing.
To address this need, we are currently calculating CFP values for our Low-E glass products using the standardized calculation tool and rules developed by the Japan Flat Glass Association*.
(*: These calculation tools and PCRs have undergone an independent technical review by LCA experts from SuMPO NEXT (formerly the LCA Expert Centre).)

NSG in the US completed an EPD project with the National Glass Association (NGA). NGA is an industry association for the automotive and architectural glass markets. NGA and its member companies created an industry-average environmental product declaration (EPD) for their flat glass to better understand their glass products' environmental performance.