Environmental

Ceilume is committed to providing our customers with high quality, safe, and sustainable products, and dedicated to preserving natural resources by minimizing the environmental impacts associated with manufacturing and shipping.

Health Product Declaration

The Health Product Declaration® (HPD) Open Standard is a voluntary technical specification for reporting information on product contents and associated health information. It is part of the movement toward achieving greater transparency and disclosure in reporting the human and environmental health aspects of building products and materials. As a result of preparing an HPD:

Building owners and designers can find data about the health considerations needed for sustainable product selection.
Ceilume has identified opportunities to improve our products ‐ part of our continuous improvement process.

The HPD Collaborative® explains, "In requesting and then using an HPD, project teams can set a 'virtuous cycle' in motion. With access to health-related information disclosed in HPDs, project teams can give preference to products for which such information is available."

Download the HPD (v2.3) for our ceiling tiles and panels.

UL GREENGUARD Gold Certification

All Ceilume ceiling tiles, panels, insulation, and grid covers are UL GREENGUARD Gold Certified for indoor air quality.

UL GREENGUARD Gold Certification offers strict certification criteria where safety and well-being are paramount. It sets low VOC emission limits, making it the optimal certification for products used in nurseries, schools, healthcare facilities, and homes where children's safety is paramount.

In addition to limiting emissions of more than 360 VOCs and total chemical emissions, UL GREENGUARD Gold Certified products must also comply with the requirements of the California Department of Public Health (CDPH) Standard Method for the Testing and Evaluation of Volatile Organic Chemical Emissions from Indoor Sources Using Environmental Chambers, also known as California Section 01350.

Emission Controls for Educational and Healthcare Environments

The UL GREENGUARD Gold Certification requirements comply with the State of California's Department of Public Health Services Standard Practice for Specification Section 01350 (California Section 01350) for testing chemical emissions from building products used in schools and other environments. As such, UL GREENGUARD Gold Certified products can be used to earn valuable credits in the CHPS Best Practices Manual for K-12 schools, the US Green Building Council's LEED® Green Building Rating Systems, the Green Guide for Healthcare, the NAHB Green Building Guidelines, Green Globes, Regreen and many other building codes, standards and specifications.

Environmental Product Declaration

An Environmental Product Declaration (EPD) is a transparent, third-party verified document that details a product's environmental footprint throughout its entire lifecycle ‐ from raw material extraction to disposal. Functioning much like a nutrition label for sustainability, an EPD relies on rigorous Life Cycle Assessments (LCAs) to provide clear, standardized data on key metrics such as carbon footprint, energy consumption, and water use. By offering objective and independently audited environmental impact data, our EPDs empower our customers to make informed, sustainable decisions and meet green building standard requirements.

EPDs can be found on product pages or downloaded below:

Recycling and Our Ceiling Tile Take-Back Program

With an extensive program to reuse materials that might otherwise end up in a landfill, we combine post-manufacture waste with recycled ceiling tiles, converting them into durable products that can, themselves, be recycled into more ceiling tiles.

This is the holy grail of sustainability.

To create our line of 100% post-manufacturing and post-consumer recycled tiles, we take manufacturing scrap and ceiling tiles returned to us for recycling and carefully sort it to ensure cleanliness and consistency. Then we feed it into specialized granulators, which converts it to confetti-like bits of plastic ‐ a process that produces zero waste. This recycled feedstock is then processed into sheet form and placed on rolls, resulting in our Random Gray, 100% recycled material.

Waste to Roll to Ceiling Tiles

These 100% post-manufacturing and post-consumer recycled tiles, like all Ceilume tiles, are made in the USA, providing jobs in our local community and eliminating the negative impacts of international shipping.

Sustainable Building Credits and Codes

Ceilume ceiling tiles and panels contribute to:

ASHRAE 189.1
- 8.4.2.6: Ceiling & Wall Systems
- 8.5.2 c: Ceiling Tiles
CHPS
- 2.2.6: Ceiling Systems
Green Globes
- 3.7.2.1.4: Volatile Organic Compound - Flooring & Other Interior Products
Green Guide for Health Care 2.2
- EP Credit 3.1: Ceiling Systems
International Green Construction Code
- 806.5 (2): Ceiling & Wall Systems
- A108.5: TVOC Project Elective
LEED 2009 for New Construction and Major Renovations
- MR Credit 2: Construction Waste Management
- MR Credit 3: Materials Reuse
- MR Credit 4: Recycled Content
- MR Credit 5: Regional Materials (California)
LEED 2009 for Retail: Commercial Interiors
- IEQ Credit 4: Option F - Ceiling & Wall Systems
LEED 2009 for Retail: New Construction
- IEQ Credit 4: Option F - Ceiling & Wall Systems
LEED 2009 for Schools
- IEQ Credit 4.6: Ceiling & Wall Systems
LEED v4 - Building Design & Construction
- EQ Credit 1: Enhanced Indoor Air Quality Strategies - Option 2 - Additional Enhanced IAQ Strategies - D
- EQ Credit 4: Indoor Air Quality Assessment - Option - 2 Air Testing
LEED v4 - Homes
- EQ Credit 2: Contaminant Control - Option 4 - Air Testing
LEED v4 - Interior Design & Construction
- EQ Credit 1: Enhanced Indoor Air Quality Strategies - Option 2D
- EQ Credit 2: Low-Emitting Materials