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Panel discussion: Quality seals and certificates

Labels and cer­ti­fic­ates are con­sidered a guide to sus­tain­able con­struc­tion – but at the same time, they are sus­pec­ted of being con­fus­ing or mar­ket­ing-driv­en. The pan­el dis­cus­sion aims to cre­ate trans­par­ency about the mean­ing, bene­fits, and lim­it­a­tions of sus­tain­ab­il­ity labels.

With: Kat­rin Mees (Ger­man Con­struc­tion Industry Asso­ci­ation), Klaus Winkels (GEV – Asso­ci­ation for Emis­sion-Con­trolled Install­a­tion Mater­i­als, Adhes­ives and Build­ing Products), Felix Jansen DGNB e.V., Alfred Schumm (FSC Ger­many – Forest Stew­ard­ship Coun­cil), Dr. Till­man Prinz (Fed­er­al Cham­ber of Archi­tects) – Pan­el dis­cus­sion at the Hein­ze Cli­mate Fest­iv­al Ber­lin, 2025.

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We are celebrating 250 members!

In 1997, the year it was foun­ded, the GEV had 9 mem­bers.
Over the past 28 years, the asso­ci­ation has grown con­tinu­ously and in Janu­ary 2025 we reached the 250-mem­ber mark. We are very pleased that the EMICODE® sys­tem has become so sus­tain­ably estab­lished and widely recog­nised. More than 15,000 EMICODE®-licensed products are avail­able!

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Clean indoor air – for the health of your family!

People tend to spend more and more time indoors. There­fore, indoor air qual­ity and emis­sions from indoor install­a­tion mater­i­als on walls and floors are becom­ing increas­ingly import­ant.

In order to achieve a healthy liv­ing envir­on­ment and “clean” indoor air, it is essen­tial to pay atten­tion to mater­i­als used for flooring install­a­tion and to build­ing products such as insu­la­tion pan­els, adhes­ives or seal­ants. If you want to ensure max­im­um pro­tec­tion of your fam­ily’s health and of our envir­on­ment, you should rely on products that have been arwar­ded the EMICODE® label. They are very low in emis­sions, meet the strict­est stand­ards and emis­sion lim­its and are per­man­ently mon­itored by inde­pend­ent inspec­tion bod­ies.

As a res­ult, EMICODE® guar­an­tees clean indoor air and a healthy, com­fort­able cli­mate inside your home – qual­ity and safety for years to come.

Comparison table

The table below com­pares the VOC lim­its and oth­er eval­u­ation para­met­ers defined by dif­fer­ent envir­on­ment­al insti­tutes and organ­iz­a­tions.

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What is EMICODE®?

The EMICODE® clas­si­fic­a­tion sys­tem allows con­sumers and craft­men to com­pare and eval­u­ate the emis­sion char­ac­ter­ist­ics of floor­ing install­a­tion and con­struc­tion products. At the same time, it can be seen as an incent­ive to fur­ther improve these products.

Mean­while, this trade­mark-pro­tec­ted clas­si­fic­a­tion sys­tem has become one of the most import­ant qual­ity bench­marks for a wide range of product groups – both on a nation­al and inter­na­tion­al scale. Since EMICODE® was intro­duced in 1997, more than 14.000 products from all over the world have been awar­ded the EMICODE® label. It offers con­sumers, crafts­men and archi­tects guid­ance to decide which mater­i­als offer max­im­um safety from indoor air pol­lu­tion, guar­an­tee optim­um health pro­tec­tion and high envir­on­ment­al com­pat­ib­il­ity.

The EMICODE® Blog

Healthy liv­ing inside your home: Tips for build­ing & renov­a­tion
Here you will find cur­rent top­ics and inter­est­ing facts.

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EMICODE® – Providing credible orientation

The EMICODE® seal of approv­al has been in exist­ence for more than 25 years and is inter­na­tion­ally recog­nized. An occa­sion to show the faces behind EMICODE® in an image video. Per­son­al, authen­t­ic and real. Here, man­u­fac­tur­ers and experts talk about the value of EMICODE®.

Lan­guages: Ger­man, Eng­lish

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Interviews with experts

Gain an inform­at­ive insight into the inter­na­tion­ally recog­nised EMICODE® qual­ity label sys­tem and the back­ground to its suc­cess, which is based on the integ­rity and cooper­a­tion of all stake­hold­ers, with this com­pil­a­tion of expert testi­mon­ies. (4:31)

Lan­guages: Ger­man, Eng­lish

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The EMICODE® test method

This is a clear illus­tra­tion of what VOCs are and how exactly emis­sions are tested before GEV licenses a build­ing product with EMICODE®.

Lan­guages: Eng­lisch, Ger­man

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Expert tips

Tips and tricks – from experts for you.

LICENSABLE PRODUCTS

Here you can get an over­view of cer­ti­fied products.

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The Label

In order to be awar­ded the EMICODE® label or seal, man­u­fac­tur­ers need to sub­mit their products to extens­ive test­ing at renowned insti­tutes. Based on sci­en­tific­ally determ­ined test para­met­ers, EMICODE® cat­egor­izes tested floor­ing install­a­tion mater­i­als, adhes­ives and con­struc­tion products into three emis­sion classes.

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The GEV

The main task of GEV is the pro­mo­tion of con­sumer pro­tec­tion, occu­pa­tion­al safety and envir­on­ment­al pro­tec­tion in the field of build­ing chem­ic­als and adhes­ives. The asso­ci­ation pur­sues an open inform­a­tion policy and sup­ports cross-vendor cooper­a­tion with all part­ners in the industry.

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The Brochure

Our bro­chure provides you with import­ant facts about the EMICODE® label and clas­si­fic­a­tion sys­tem.

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