Environmental Information Process Certification Program (ISO 14025 Product Level)

Streamline your sustainability reporting with Kiwa. Our ISO 14025 Process Certification empowers you to generate verified EPDs efficiently, reducing costs and ensuring faster market access for your entire product portfolio.

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What you need to know

Process Certification provides an efficient alternative and complement to traditional Environmental Product Declaration (EPD) verification, particularly for manufacturers with multiple products, product groups, and varying Product Category Rules (PCRs). It enables manufacturers to generate transparent, systematic, and reliable environmental information for their products.

For companies with broad product portfolios, external preparation of environmental data is often complex due to high calculation effort, validation and verification requirements, and administrative workload.
Process Certification ensures reliable environmental data through continuous monitoring and verified sampling. An established testing and monitoring system assesses the plausibility of data and calculations, fostering long-term trust in the verification process.

Create EPDs In-House

Standardised Processes, Certified Quality

As a manufacturer, you can create EPDs internally using standardised, verified processes.

As a recognised programme operator under ISO 14025, Kiwa–Ecobility Experts ensures that manufacturers operate a verified, monitored, and standards-compliant process for the generation of environmental information (e.g. EPDs).

 

Why Kiwa ?

Quality Through Structured Process Monitoring

Kiwa supports and assures your environmental information processes through:

  • Preliminary assessment of the manufacturer’s environmental information system

  • Audit planning, including the definition of representative samples

  • Independent validation and verification via Kiwa–Ecobility Experts as programme operator

  • On-site audits to assess data quality, processes, and internal controls

  • Certification in accordance with ISO/IEC 17065 and ongoing surveillance to ensure long-term process stability

Key Elements of Process Certification

A structured approach combining on-site monitoring, standardised information preparation, and quality system evaluation to ensure reliable, consistent, and standards-compliant environmental data.

    Monitoring of the Process On Site

    Kiwa verifies the implementation and effectiveness of the certified process on site. This includes reviewing the preparation of environmental information, the quality management system, and the application of all relevant procedures.
    Monitoring covers document sampling, validation and verification of declared product composition, and checks of primary and secondary data. Additional sampling supports post-validation and post-verification.
    This ensures a documented and verifiable system with consistent and reliable environmental data.

    Procedure for Preparing Environmental Information

    The certified process defines how environmental information (e.g. EPDs) is prepared in a standardised and consistent manner.
    Kiwa assesses defined responsibilities, documented data sources and calculation methods, and compliance with applicable standards and PCRs, enabling manufacturers to create and update EPDs internally.

    Evaluation of the Quality System

    Kiwa evaluates the existence and effective functioning of the quality system supporting environmental information generation.
    This includes checks of internal controls, review and approval procedures, and ongoing compliance, ensuring robust and stable processes over time.

Your Benefits

Significant Cost Efficiency

Shifts the cost structure from paying for individual product verifications to a single system audit. This delivers substantial savings, especially for companies with large or frequently changing product portfolios.

Faster Time-to-Market

Eliminates the bottleneck of waiting for external verifiers for every new release. Your team can generate and publish compliant environmental data immediately to meet tender deadlines.

Operational Autonomy

Reduces dependency on external audit schedules. By internalizing the capability, you gain full control over when and how you update your environmental declarations.

Enhanced Data Consistency

Establishes a standardized internal framework. This ensures that environmental data across different business units is calculated using the same robust methodology, minimizing errors and ensuring comparability.

Strategic Sustainability Maturity

Demonstrates that environmental accounting is integrated into your core business operations. This signals to investors and clients that your company manages sustainability with the same rigor as financial data.

Get in touch to discuss how Process Certification can support your product portfolio and sustainability objectives.

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