Legrand North America

Wiremold
60 Woodlawn Street
Product Environmental Profile
West Hartford, CT 06110
1.877.BY.LEGRAND (295.3472)
Wiremold® RFB4 Multi-Service Steel
www.legrand.us Recessed Floor Boxes

LEGRAND COMPANY OVERVIEW

• Designed to Be Better – Our Commitment to Sustainability
At Legrand®, our sustainability commitment translates into greater benefits and tangible value for our customers, business partners,
employees, and the broader community.
• Better Performance
We provide building solutions to meet many building performance goals from sustainability and energy efficiency to productivity
and occupant well being. The right choice in network and electrical infrastructure can play a key role in many facets of building
performance. Our products help ensure electrical safety. They offer choice and flexibility in space design. They are designed to reduce
installation time and material waste on site. Because we know buildings consume a great deal of energy, we offer a range of products
and solutions that reduce energy consumption from lighting to plug load to data centers.
• Better Solutions
We offer a wide range of innovative solutions for the building, while constantly evolving our design and development processes to
improve the environmental profile of our products. Through active monitoring and research, we serve as an expert resource for market
trends and building and product performance standards to keep our customers at the top of their game.
• Better Operations
We focus on operational excellence because we believe optimizing the way we manage energy, water and waste is not only good for the
environment, it’s good for business. As part of the Department of Energy’s Better Building, Better Plants Challenge (BBBP) Legrand has
reduced its energy intensity by over 30% across 14 sites in the United States in just three years. Integrating sustainability into the way
we run our operations makes us more competitive – and a better business partner.

For information on Legrand PEP’s and other sustainability initiatives, scan the QR code to be brought to our Product
Sustainability page.

LEGRAND’S ENVIRONMENTAL COMMITMENTS

• Incorporate environmental management into our industrial sites
Of all Legrand sites worldwide, over 85% are ISO 14001 certified (sites belonging to Legrand for more than five years).
• Offer our customers environmentally friendly solutions
Develop innovative solutions to help our customers design more energy efficient, better managed and more environmentally friendly
installations.
• Involve the environment in product design
Reduce the environmental impact of products over their whole life cycle.
Provide our customers with all relevant information (composition, consumption, end of life, etc.).

REFERENCE PRODUCT
Provides 4 wiring compartments for installation of power, communication and/or A/V devices, recessed in
Function concrete for a minimum period of 20 years. These compartments can be fed by conduits of various sizes (six
3/4" (19.1mm), six 1 1/4" (32mm), three 1" (25mm) and one 1/2" (12.7mm)).

Reference Product

Part Number: RFB4

RB4 Four-Compartment Combination Box
The company reserves the right to change specifications and designs without notice. All illustrations, descriptions, dimensions and weights in the document are for guidance and
cannot be held binding on the company.

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Legrand North America
Wiremold
60 Woodlawn Street
Product Environmental Profile
West Hartford, CT 06110
1.877.BY.LEGRAND (295.3472)
Wiremold® RFB4 Multi-Service Steel
www.legrand.us Recessed Floor Boxes

PRODUCTS CONCERNED
The environmental data is representative of the following products:

Description
The environmenal data is representative of the following products:
RFB4, RFB4-4DB, RFB4-SS

CONSTITUENT MATERIALS
This Reference Product contains no substances prohibited by the regulations applicable at the time of its introduction to the market.
It respects the restrictions on use of hazardous substances as defined in the RoHS directive 2011/65/CE.

Total weight of Reference Product

(with unit packaging) 126.1 oz (3575 g)

Plastics as % of weight Metals as % of weight Other as % of weight

PVC 17.6% Steel 65.6%
Copper Alloys <0.1%

Packaging as % of weight
Paper 9.1%
Wood 7.0%
PE 0.6%
Total plastics 17.6% Total metals 65.6% Total other and packaging 16.8%
Estimated recycled material content: 21% of weight.

MANUFACTURING
This Reference Product comes from a site that has initiated an environmental certification.

DISTRIBUTION
Products are distributed from logistics centers located to optimize transport efficiency. The Reference Product is therefore transported over
an average distance of 621 miles [1000km] by truck from our warehouse to the local point of distribution into the market in North America.

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Legrand North America
Wiremold
60 Woodlawn Street
Product Environmental Profile
West Hartford, CT 06110
1.877.BY.LEGRAND (295.3472)
Wiremold® RFB4 Multi-Service Steel
www.legrand.us Recessed Floor Boxes

INSTALLATION
For the installation of the product, only standard tools are needed.

USE
Servicing and maintenance:
Under normal conditions of use, this type of product requires no servicing or maintenance.
Consumable:
No consumables are necessary to use this type of product.

END OF LIFE
Development teams integrate product end-of-life factors in the design phase.
• Hazardous waste* contained in the product: no hazardous waste
(*) Hazardous waste as defined by European Commission decision 2000/532/EC.
• Recycling rate:
Calculated using the method described in the IEC/TR 62635 technical report, the recyclability rate of the product is estimated as 91%.
This value is based on data collected from a technological channel using industrial procedures. It does not pre-validate the effective use
of this channel for end-of-life electrical and electronic products.
Separated into: (% mass of Reference Product)
- Plastic materials (excluding packaging) : 17%
- Metal materials (excluding packaging) : 65%
- Packaging materials (all types of materials) : 9%

ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS
The evaluation of environmental impacts examines the stages of the Reference Product life cycle: manufacturing, distribution,
installation, use, and end of life. It is representative of products marketed and used in North America.

The following modelling elements were taken into account:

Manufacturing Packaging taken into account. As required by the PEP ecopassport program all transport for the manufacturing of the
Reference Product, including materials and components, has been taken into account. The waste generated during
manufacturing phase has been taken into account.
Distribution Transport between the last distribution center and an average delivery to the sales area.
Installation Installation components not delivered with the product are not taken into account. The end-of-life of the packaging
is taken into account at this phase.
Use • Under normal conditions of use, this type of product requires no servicing or maintenance.
• No consumables are necessary to use this type of product.
• Product category: envelope (as enclosure…)
• Use scenario: No energy consumption during the 20 year working life. This modelling duration does not constitute a
minimum durability requirement.
• Energy model: Electricity Mix (US) - 2009
End of life The default end of life scenario maximizing the environmental impacts.
Software used EIME V5 and its database “CODDE-2015-04” and the indicators defined in the PCR ed 3 in alignment with the EN15804
standard

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Legrand North America
Wiremold
60 Woodlawn Street
Product Environmental Profile
West Hartford, CT 06110
1.877.BY.LEGRAND (295.3472)
Wiremold® RFB4 Multi-Service Steel
www.legrand.us Recessed Floor Boxes

ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS (continued)

Raw material
and
Total for Life cycle manufacturing Distribution Installation Use End of life

Global warming 1.49E+01 kgCO2 eq. 1.40E+01 94% 6.23E-01 4% 3.85E-02 < 1% 0.00E+00 0% 2.26E-01 2%

Ozone depletion 1.73E-06 kgCFC-11 eq. 1.73E-06 100% 1.26E-09 < 1% 3.14E-10 < 1% 0.00E+00 0% 2.89E-09 < 1%

Acidification of soils
3.84E-02 kgSO2 eq. 3.45E-02 90% 2.80E-03 7% 1.86E-04 < 1% 0.00E+00 0% 9.26E-04 2%
and water

Water eutrophication 7.39E-03 kg(PO4)3- eq. 5.15E-03 70% 6.43E-04 9% 2.01E-04 3% 0.00E+00 0% 1.40E-03 19%

Photochemical ozone
4.00E-03 kgC2H4 eq. 3.71E-03 93% 1.99E-04 5% 1.32E-05 < 1% 0.00E+00 0% 7.03E-05 2%
formation
Depletion of abiotic
1.00E-03 kgSb eq. 1.00E-03 100% 2.49E-08 < 1% 1.73E-09 < 1% 0.00E+00 0% 1.12E-08 < 1%
resources - elements
Total use of primary
6.56E+02 MJ 6.43E+02 98% 8.81E+00 1% 5.54E-01 < 1% 0.00E+00 0% 3.19E+00 < 1%
energy
Net use of fresh
1.39E-01 m3 1.39E-01 100% 5.57E-05 < 1% 1.36E-05 < 1% 0.00E+00 0% 1.05E-04 < 1%
water
Depletion of abiotic
resources – fossil 1.84E+02 MJ 1.72E+02 93% 8.75E+00 5% 5.37E-01 < 1% 0.00E+00 0% 3.06E+00 2%
fuels

Water pollution 9.52E+02 m3 8.13E+02 85% 1.02E+02 11% 5.84E+00 < 1% 0.00E+00 0% 3.00E+01 3%

Air pollution 2.51E+03 m3 2.46E+03 98% 2.55E+01 1% 4.85E+00 < 1% 0.00E+00 0% 1.75E+01 < 1%

The values of the 27 impacts defined in the PCR-ed3-EN-2015 04 02 are available in the digital database of pep-ecopassport.org website.
The values of these impacts are valid for the context specified in this document. They must not be used directly to draw up the environmental
balance sheet for the installation.

% Environmental Impact per Life Cycle Stage of Reference Product

100%

90%

80%

70%

60%
End  of  life
Use
50%
Installation
Distribution
40%
Manufacturing

30%

20%

10%

0%
GWP ODP A EP POCP ADPe PE FW ADPf WP AP

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Legrand North America
Wiremold
60 Woodlawn Street
Product Environmental Profile
West Hartford, CT 06110
1.877.BY.LEGRAND (295.3472)
Wiremold® RFB4 Multi-Service Steel
www.legrand.us Recessed Floor Boxes

ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS (continued)

To calculate the impacts of the other products covered by the PEP, multiply the impacts of the RFB4 floorbox by the following factors:

Part Number Manufacturing Distribution Installation Use End of Life

RFB4-4DB 1.2 0.4 2.7 - 1.1
RFB4-SS 1.1 0.3 1 - 1

Registration number: LGRP-00024-V01.01-EN Drafting rules: “PCR-ed3-EN-2015 04”

Supplemented by “PSR-0005-ed1-EN-2012 12 11”
Verifier’s accreditation number: VH02 Information and reference documents: www.pep-ecopassport.org
Date of issue: 11-2015 Validity period: 5 years
Independent verification of the declaration and data, in compliance with ISO 14025:2010
Internal External
The PCR Review was conducted by a panel of experts chaired by Philippe Osset (SOLINNEN).
The elements of the present PEP cannot be compared with elements from another program.
Documents in compliance with ISO 14025:2010: “Environmental labels and declarations - Type III
environmental declarations”
In compliance with ISO 14040:2006: “Environmental management – LCA – Principles and framework”
In compliance with ISO 14044:2006: “Environmental management – LCA – Requirements and guidelines”
In alignment with EN 15804:2012+A1:2013: “Sustainability of construction works - EPD’s - Core rules for the
product category of construction products”

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