USG CEILINGS™ BRAND MARS™ CLIMAPLUS™, MARS CLIMAPLUS™ HRC, MARS CLIMAPLUS™ HEALTHCARE, MARS CLIMAPLUS™ HIGH-NRC

Product catalog summary

Product Overview: USG Ceilings™ Brand Mars™ Climaplus™ panels are designed for environments like offices, healthcare, and schools. They offer enhanced sound and anti-sag performance with high noise reduction coefficients and solid ceiling attenuation class performance.

Sustainability Commitment: USG focuses on sustainable practices, minimizing environmental impacts, and promoting healthier living spaces. They provide Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs) for transparency in product information.

Environmental Product Declaration (EPD): The EPD, compliant with ISO 14025, details lifecycle assessments, product composition, and performance attributes, highlighting environmental impacts such as global warming potential and resource depletion.

Product Specifications: Panels come in various styles and thicknesses with features like a Noise Reduction Coefficient (NRC) of 0.70-0.80, Ceiling Attenuation Class (CAC) of 35, Light Reflectance of 0.89, Thermal Resistance of R = 2.2, and recycled content of 75%-81%.

Manufacturing Process: Panels are made using X-technology wet felted mineral fiber, primarily composed of mineral wool, starch, and latex, with water-based paint and packaging materials.

Environmental Impact Categories: Assessed impacts include global warming potential, ozone creation, eutrophication, ozone depletion, acidification, and resource depletion.

Recycling and Certifications: Panels are recyclable under the USG Ceiling Recycling program and meet low VOC emissions standards, contributing to LEED credits.

Applications: Suitable for suspended ceiling systems in offices, healthcare facilities, and educational institutions.

Codes of Practice: References several ASTM standards for classification, surface burning characteristics, strength properties, sound absorption, installation, and sound attenuation of acoustic ceilings.

Technical Data: Includes fire classification under ASTM E1264 and E84 with a Class A rating, sound absorption and attenuation with NRC values of .70 and .80, CAC of 35, and light reflectance of .89.

Material Composition: Composed of mineral fiber with recycled content, including mineral wool, starch, latex, and non-woven laminate fiberglass. The grid is made from hot-dipped galvanized steel.

Production Process: Involves mixing ingredients into a slurry, forming a basemat, pressing, drying, laminating, cutting, and painting. Grid production involves cleaning, coating, and forming steel coils into grid components.

Health, Safety, and Environmental Aspects: Emphasizes sustainability and safety, with facilities achieving OSHA “Star” status. Installation requires adherence to guidelines, and recycling of materials is encouraged.

Use and Maintenance: Panels are easy to clean and maintain, with a lifetime warranty of 30 years and a service life of 50 years. They meet emissions criteria for VOCs.

Life Cycle Assessment: Covers the entire lifecycle from raw material extraction to end-of-life disposal, focusing on sustainability and recycling efforts.

System Boundaries: Encompasses energy and material inputs from raw material extraction to end-of-life disposal, including onsite energy generation and ancillary materials.

Assumptions and Cut-off Criteria: All material and energy flows were accounted for, with cut-off criteria allowing exclusion of flows less than 1% of total mass or energy unless environmentally significant.

Transportation: Raw materials are transported via various modes, including barge, truck, rail, and ship, with specified distances.

Data Quality and Allocation: Data quality is rated as good to high, with primary data from 2011-2012. No co-product allocations were necessary.

Life Cycle Stages: Assesses production, distribution, installation, and end-of-life stages, with primary energy consumption highest during production.

Environmental Impact: Uses TRACI and CML methods to assess impacts like global warming, acidification, and ozone depletion, with production having the highest impact.

End-of-Life and Recycling: While recycling is promoted, end-of-life disposal assumes landfill use. Expanding recycling programs could reduce landfill impacts.

Additional Information: Includes information on the biopersistence of mineral wool fibers and VOC emissions, confirming low emissions according to specific standards.

Standards and References: Follows ISO standards for environmental declarations and life cycle assessments, with references to relevant guidelines and product category rules.

Catalog excerpts

Environmental Product Declaration USG CEILINGS™ BRAND MARS™ CLIMAPLUS™, MARS CLIMAPLUS™ HRC, MARS CLIMAPLUS™ HEALTHCARE, MARS CLIMAPLUS™ HIGH-NRC USG X-Technology Wet Felted Mineral Fiber Ceiling Panels DX®/DXL", DXW™, Centricitee™ DXT™, Fineline® DXF™, Fineline 1/8” DXFF™, Identitee™ DXI™ Suspension Systems USG Ceilings" Brand Mars ' Climaplus™ panels are fine-textured panels with a scrim face for a monolithic visual. The panels are manufactured using a unique process that maximizes sound and anti-sag performance, producing higher noise reduction coefficients and solid ceiling attenuation class performance. This low-emitting panel is ideal for offices, healthcare, conference rooms, corridors, reception areas, retail stores, hospitality and schools. USG^j For over a century, sustainable practices have naturally been an inherent part of our business at USG. Today, they help shape the innovative products that become the homes where we live, the buildings where we work and the arenas where we play. From the product formulations we choose, to the processes we employ, USG is committed to designing, manufacturing, and distributing products that minimize overall environmental impacts and contribute toward a more healthy living space. We believe that transparency of product information is essential for our stakeholders and EPDs are the next step toward an even more transparent USG. USG’s ceiling panels listed in this UL Environment Certified Document provides an acoustical ceiling panel’s: Life Cycle Assessment (LCA), LCA Impact Measures, Product Composition, Material Definitions, Manufacturing Process, Product Performance Attributes, and Product Application. For additional information, visit usg.com and usgdesignstudio.com

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USG Ceilings M Brand: Mars'™ ClimaPlus™, Mars'™ ClimaPlus™ w TM TM TM TM Healthcare, Mars ClimaPlus HRC, Mars ClimaPlus High-NRC Mineral Fiber Ceiling Panels According to ISO 14025 This declaration is an environmental product declaration in accordance with ISO 14025. This EPD does not guarantee that any performance benchmarks, including environmental performance benchmarks, are met. EPDs are intended to compliment Type I environmental performance labels. EPDs provide LCA-based information and additional information on the environmental aspects of products and assist purchasers...

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ENVIRONMENTAL PRODUCT DECLARATION L UL.COM/EPD EPD Transparency Summary COMPANY NAME PRODUCT TYPE PRODUCT NAME PRODUCT DEFINITION PRODUCT CATEGORY RULE (PCR) CERTIFICATION PERIOD DECLARATION NUMBER USG Interiors, LLC X-Technology Mineral Fiber Ceiling Panels Mars™ ClimaPlus™, Mars™ ClimaPlus™ Healthcare, Mars™ ClimaPlus™ HRC and High NRC X-technology mineral fiber ceiling panels offering a fine texture with a fresh, clean appearance and fast, efficient installation. These high performance, all-purpose low-emitting panels offer a system warranty against visible sag, mold and mildew. Ceiling...

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© MATERIAL CONTENT Material content measured to 1%. ADDITIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL INFORMATION PRE-CONSUMER RECYCLED CONTENT The preferred method is for the product to be recycled through USG’s Ceiling Take-back program. STANDARDS CERTIFICATIONS RENEWABLE ENERGY NON-RENEWABLE ENERGY 6.8 % MANUFACTURER CONTACT INFO 0.89 MJ MJ • ASTM El 264 •ASTM E84 •ASTM C367 •ASTM C423 •ASTM El414 •ASTM C518-1 Performance Attributes: MARS™ CLIMAPLUS™, MARS CLIMAPLUS HRC and MARS CLIMAPLUS Healthcare NRC: 0.70; CAC: 35; LR: 0.89 MARS CLIMAPLUS High-NRC NRC: 0.80; CAC: 35; LR: 0.89 The information presented herein is...

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USG Ceilings Brand: Mars ClimaPlus , Mars ClimaPlus ™ ™ ™ ™ Healthcare, Mars ClimaPlus HRC, Mars ClimaPlus High-NRC Mineral Fiber Ceiling Panels Product Classification Product Description 2 USG Interiors produces a family of X-technology wet felted acoustical ceiling panels at its Cloquet, MN, facility having various light reflectance, noise reduction, and attenuation specifications with various levels of post-consumer/industrial recycled content. The X-technology wet felted production line at the Cloquet facility employs a wet-felted technology in the 2 production of acoustical ceiling panels....

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USG Ceilings™ Brand: Mars™ ClimaPlus™, Mars™ ClimaPlus™ W TM TM TM TM Healthcare, Mars ClimaPlus HRC, Mars ClimaPlus High-NRC According to ISO 14025 Mineral Fiber Ceiling Panels • Low Emissions (VOC); USG Ceilings: Mars ClimaPlus, Mars ClimaPlus Healthcare, Mars ClimaPlus HRC, Mars ClimaPlus High-NRC are low emitting products that meet CA specification 01350 (CA Dept, of Health Services Standard Practice for the testing of VOC emissions) and are listed on the CHPS database for low-emitting materials. USG Certificate of Compliance for Low VOC Emissions is also available on usg.com. •...

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USG Ceilings™ Brand: Mars™ ClimaPlus™, Mars™ ClimaPlus™ W TM TM TM TM Healthcare, Mars ClimaPlus HRC, Mars ClimaPlus High-NRC According to ISO 14025 Mineral Fiber Ceiling Panels Ceiling Panel Options (USG Ceilings Mars ClimaPlus Healthcare) Centricitee DXT DXLA Year System Warranty UL classified Grid Profile Options (USG Ceilings Mars ClimaPlus Healthcare) Application This product is typically installed as a suspended ceiling in the following applications: offices, conference rooms, general healthcare applications, schools, corridors, reception and lobby areas, and retail stores. Codes...

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