Does a Coimbatore pump exporter need an EPD for European buyers?
No EU law requires one for pumps today, but some buyers and tenders ask for it. An EPD under ISO 14025 is a verified, standard-format declaration built on product category rules. A carbon footprint under ISO 14067 is smaller in scope and often enough for a buyer's Scope 3.
Which to offer
- Carbon footprint (ISO 14067): one impact, faster to build, often accepted for Scope 3.
- EPD (ISO 14025): many impacts, built on a product category rule and verified by a third party, often asked for in public tenders.
What both need
Energy bills for the plant, metal and copper purchases by weight, and the use-phase assumptions a pump footprint depends on. Use phase usually dominates for pumps, so state the duty cycle you assumed.
Not CBAM
Pumps under 8413 are not CBAM goods, so no embedded emissions figure is required at the EU border.
What Senseible does here
Senseible reads the energy invoices behind the making stage into a fingerprinted Scope 1 and 2 record, and keeps material invoices on the Scope 3 trail. Material factors come from your supplier or a named database and are labelled with their source, so the product figure can be traced line by line.
Sources: ISO (ISO 14025, ISO 14067, ISO/IEC 30134), GHG Protocol standards (Product Standard)
Last reviewed 2026-10-21.