New EN Standard and Its Impact on Development of More Sustainable Filtration Solutions
Mr. Tobias Zimmer
Sr. Vice President
Camfil AB, SE
Speaker Bio
Mr. Tobias Zimmer is an experienced air filter specialist with more than 20 years of experience in the international ventilation industry. Since 2009 Mr. Zimmer has been employed by Camfil, an industry leading air filter manufacturer based in Sweden. He has held various positions within the Camfil Group and his current position is Senior Vice President Public Affairs, Sustainability & Corporate Communication. Mr. Zimmer serves actively in numerous working groups of several international standard committees including ISO TC142 (Cleaning equipment for air and other gases), CEN TC195 (Air filters for general air cleaning), CEN TC156 (Ventilation for buildings). Mr Zimmer is the convenor of the WG7, Environmental product declarations for air cleaning equipment in CEN TC 195 as well as Vice Chairman of PC-Fil at Eurovent Certification and an advisory board member of the Waterloo Filtration Institute. In addition, he is active in various international ventilation & engineering industry associations and committees including Eurovent, REHVA, Eurovent Middle East, Eurovent International, VDMA and EHEDG. In this context, Mr. Zimmer co-authored several guidebooks and technical guidelines related to air filtration and ventilation.
Presentation time
December 3, 2025
8:40 am - 8:55am EST
Abstract
Environmental product declarations (EPD) provide reliable, third-party verified data about the carbon footprint of a product over its whole lifecycle. Also EPD for air filters for building ventilation are increasingly requested by the market, especially in Europe. In Europe, those EPD for air filters are based on EN15804 (core product category rules for EPD for building materials). As there are currently no specific product category rules defined for air filters, EPD for air filters are often not fully comparable and may therefore confuse the users and lead to wrong conclusions.
To overcome this issue and provide a leveled playing field, CEN TC 195 formed a new working group to create complementary product category rules (c-PCR) for EPD for air filters, complementary to EN 15804. Those c-PCR will take into account the energy consumption needed to operate an air filter as well as the health benefits provided by it. This will allow a fair evaluation of air filter products and drive innovation towards more sustainable air filtration solutions.