PEP Ecopassport

What is PEP Ecopassport?

PEP Ecopassport is an international environmental declaration program that evaluates and communicates the impact of electrical, electronic and HVAC products throughout their life cycle.

For cables, the Product Environmental Profile or PEP provides standardized and verified information on the impacts associated with raw materials, manufacturing, distribution, use and the end of the product’s service life.

This information provides greater transparency and enables customers, designers, specifiers and project managers to incorporate environmental criteria into their decisions.

In Brasil, we make the environmental impact of our cables visible through verified Product Environmental Profiles (PEPs), which assess their environmental performance across the different stages of their life cycle.

How is it obtained and What Does PEP Ecopassport Contribute?

The data collected is used to perform the calculation which is then sent to Bureau Veritas for third-party validation. Once validated, the file is ready for publication on the PEP Association website and upload to the Nexans PEP Library.

What does a cable life cycle assessment cover?

The assessment covers five main stages:

1. Raw materials: extraction, processing and transportation of the materials required to produce the cable.
2. Manufacturing: industrial processes that transform raw materials into finished products.
3. Logistics and distribution: transportation and distribution from the manufacturing site to the installation location.
4. Use: the period during which the cable performs its function within an installation or infrastructure.
5. End of life: management of materials through reuse, recycling, recovery or final disposal.

What does contribute?

• Makes the environmental impact of products visible throughout their life cycle.
• Provides standardized and verified environmental information.
• Facilitates comparison and decision-making based on sustainability criteria.
• Helps integrate carbon-related criteria into infrastructure and construction projects.

Nexans’ Low-Carbon Program uses life cycle assessments and verified PEP declarations to measure, make visible, and improve the environmental performance of its products. The program aims to provide reliable information that enables the comparison of solutions, the integration of carbon-related criteria into projects, and progress toward low-carbon electrification.

PEP Ecopassport is part of Electrifying with Impact, our sustainability vision in Brazil. Discover how we are Electrifying with Impact.