b'Environmental Product Declaration | Resene Quick Dry Technical informationLife cycle inventory (LCI) and assumptionsPrimarydatawereusedforallpaintmanufacturingoperationsuptothefactorygate. Primary data for paint manufacturing operations was sourced from the period 1 September 2020 to 31 August 2021. Background data was used for input materials sourced from raw material and packaging suppliers.Upstream data Electricity Recycling and recycled inputs Table 7: Paint distribution (Module A4)WiththeexceptionofenergyandwateruseThe composition of the residual electricity gridPaint packaging, steel and HDPE plastic, are sentEstimated weighted avg. transport toUtilisation (which correctly reflect New Zealand conditions)mix of New Zealand is modelled in LCA FE basedfor recycling from the installation (A5). Paint doesMeans of transport construction sites (km) rate (%) Commentsupstream(supplychain)datausedwereon published data for the year 1 April 202131not use any recycled input materials. HDPE plasticRoad: Euro 4 truck 450 55 The distance is based on sales weighted average European/US due to a lack of consistent LCI dataMarch2022(BraveTrace,2023).TheNewpailsaremanufacturedfrom100%primary(20 to 26 t gross weight /distance. The total distance travelled (as a weighted forNewZealandatthetimethisstudywasZealandresidualelectricitymixismadeupofinputs.Inpractice,steelisloopedtofulfilany17.3t payload capacity) average) is 430 km by road and 22 km by sea. The Sea: Container ship 22 48 EPD assumes an additional 20 km by truck from the conducted. hydro (56.6%), geothermal (19.7%), natural gasrecycled steel input required and net scrap is sentdistribution centre (i.e., Resene ColorShops, Mitre (5.000 to 200.000 dwt10) to the install location.(12.5%), wind (6.55%), coal (4.25%), biomassto module D. All recycled HDPE scrap is sent topayload capacity, deep sea)LCA software and database (0.266%) and biogas (0.16%). module D.Alldatainthebackgroundsystem(energyOnsiteconsumption(3%)andthemediumRaw materials transportinputs, transport processes, packaging and rawvoltage (1 kV60 kV) grids transmission and materials)arefromSpherasManagedLCAdistribution losses (3.17%) are calculated basedRaw material transport has been calculated or Content (MLC) Database 2023.2 (Sphera, 2024).on data from the Ministry of Business, Innovationestimated for each material based on weighted Thereferenceyearforthedatarangesfrom& Employment (MBIE, 2023). average for sea and truck transport from multiple 20162023andthereforealldatasetsareThe emission factor for the New Zealand residualsuppliers. withinthe10-yearlimitallowableforgenericgrid mix (1 kV60 kV) for the GWP-GHG indicator data under EN 15804 and the PCR. is0.146kgCO e/kWh(basedonEF3.1).The 2relativelysmalldifferencebetweentheresidual gridmixandtheconsumptionmixfor NewZealandelectricitymeansthechoiceof electricitymodellingapproachdoesnotimpact the comparability of EPDs.resene.com Return to contents|11'