Excel Dryer Receives EPD Verification By UL Environment

KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 23 (Bernama) -- Excel Dryer Inc has announced that three of their hand dryers were evaluated and their environmental claims, substantiated with the publication of the hand dryer industry´s first Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs) by UL Environment, a business division of Underwriters´ Laboratories. The evaluated hand dryers are the XLERATOR Hand Dryer, XLERATOReco Hand Dryer and ThinAir Hand Dryer, proven to be sustainable. Excel Dryer, in a statement, said that EPD is a standardised way of quantifying the environmental impact of a product by studying the raw materials and energy consumption during its production, use and disposal. For buyers and specifiers, the EPDs are a disclosure tool that helps purchasers better understand a product´s sustainable qualities and environmental repercussions, to make more informed product selections. To create an EPD, there must first exist Product Category Rules (PCR) which create testing guidelines and reporting methods through industry consensus, thereby permitting buyers and specifiers to compare products, apples-to-apples. "Excel Dryer is proud to have been the first to publish dry time and energy use results of our three high-speed hand dryers to the new global PCR standards," said Excel Dryer vice-president of marketing and sales, William Gagnon. The hand dryers are the first and only to achieve Made In USA certification. The publication of EPDs continues Excel Dryer´s lists of celebrated accomplishments and ushers the hand dryer industry into a new age of transparency. -- BERNAMA