Troldtekt and the Environment
The Cradle to Cradle principles serve as a strategic management tool, ensuring continuity and development in our work to minimise the environmental impact and optimise resource consumption and processes.
At Troldtekt, we focus actively on making a positive contribution to the environment. The international Cradle to Cradle design concept is at the core of Troldtekt’s business strategy. That is why we direct our focus on our processes and resource consumption, from the extraction of raw materials for production to the upcycling and utilisation of the acoustic panels that have reached the end of their first life cycle in a building.
Verified environmental documentation
At Troldtekt, documentation and certification are a key element of our CSR work. In relation to the environment, this takes the form of:
- Our Environmental Product Declaration (EPD). The EPDs are verified by an independent third party.
- Recognised indoor climate certifications provide documentation that our acoustic panels do not emit harmful substances during use
- Complete documentation packages for assessors and auditors of certified buildings.
Ongoing CO2 reduction
In the production of Troldtekt acoustic panels, we use renewable energy: the electricity comes from wind turbines and the heat from our own biomass boiler. The share of renewable energy in our own production varies slightly from year to year, but is typically close to 98 per cent.
By far, the largest proportion of a Troldtekt acoustic panel's carbon footprint comes from the cement production at Aalborg Portland. In 2022, we launched acoustic panels based on the low-carbon cement type FUTURECEM™. In addition, through a number of targeted initiatives, Aalborg Portland has seen a considerable reduction in its carbon emissions, which also contributes to a reduction in our carbon emissions per acoustic panel produced.
The figures for the total carbon footprint of Troldtekt acoustic panels can be found in our EPDs for the individual product variants.
Circular Economy
At Troldtekt, we work with the circular economy. Schemes for cement-bonded wood wool waste from our own production and customer building sites have been set up in Denmark. Our ambition is also to reuse, recycle and upcycle panels from demolition sites.
To ensure that our production waste is reused at the highest possible value level, we sort our waste into a number of fractions. This approach enables us to work with multiple solutions in both the biological and technical cycles – and to regularly test new models.
