Reach ESG environmental goals with Lumir
Lumir Comfort acoustic coating is based on cellulose and its natural binding agents.
While we improve people’s well-being with natural room acoustics, we turn indoor surfaces into long-term carbon storages. The Finnish forest is now a new export product in the form of carbon-negative acoustic coating.
With continued urbanization, there is a growing global demand for room acoustic solutions. Our innovation also help to mitigate climate change – with every square meter acoustic coated, both in Finland and in the future in the world’s major cities.
How does our carbon-negative coating help construction to reduce emissions?
The Lumir Comfort coating contains more carbon dioxide than is produced during its manufacture. For this reason, by accumulating and at the same time converting surfaces into long-term carbon storages, we concretely support the environmental goals of the construction sector.
Acoustics and other surface materials have a surprisingly large impact on construction emissions, because a lot has already been done in the energy efficiency and companies’ carbon neutrality goals require more actions.
Truly environmentally friendly building materials such as Lumir help the construction sector towards more sustainable construction.
Less emissions throughout the building life-cycle
- Design and procurement phase: the environmental impact of Lumir can be assessed already at the design stage through an Environmental Product Declaration (EPD).
- Logistics: manufacturing in Finland from indigenous bio-fibres ensures security of supply and a short route to the construction site
- Construction phase: project-specific manufacturing reduces waste
- Use and maintenance of the building: our acoustic coating will act as a carbon storage for decades and can be easily repaired if necessary. In view of its long life cycle, the material costs of acoustic coating remain moderate
- Building demolition: a fully recyclable acoustic coating
Lumir Comfort coating and its positive environmental impact.
See the concrete calculations below.
Example 1: Renovation of the Finnish Parliament House
Thanks to its raw material base, Lumir acoustic coating binds around 1.2 kilograms of CO₂ per square meter. The coating can improve the carbon footprint of new buildings as well as those being renovated and restored. For example, the renovation of the Finnish House of Parliament, a building more than 80 years old, bound almost 4 tonnes of atmospheric carbon dioxide in the form of acoustic coatings. This is the equivalent of driving a passenger car for about 30 000 km – almost 22 times the distance from the end of Finland.
Example 2: Lumir Comfort replaces the traditional spray plaster applications
Lumir Comfort acoustic coating reduces CO₂ by about one kilogram per square meter compared to, for example, a traditional spray-applied plaster. This has been calculated from EPD carbon footprint data and installation quantities according to the installation instructions.
For example, if you live in a 50-apartment apartment block (approx. 3 000 kem2) and the developer has 40 similar projects, this would already result in a 76 tonne reduction in the carbon footprint.
