Products
The traffic sign design
of the future
The following functionalities
‘plug and play’ can additionally be added to the highly innovative honeycomb traffic sign design patented by Climate Signs:
Insect hotel // Sedum profile // Sensors // Solar panels
By adding ‘clickable’ modules, we transform the classic traffic sign into a modern platform for sustainable and innovative applications, which are good for people and the environment.
‘plug and play’ can additionally be added to the highly innovative honeycomb traffic sign design patented by Climate Signs:
Insect hotel // Sedum profile // Sensors // Solar panels
By adding ‘clickable’ modules, we transform the classic traffic sign into a modern platform for sustainable and innovative applications, which are good for people and the environment.
Raw materials
If the 2021 commodity crisis showed us anything, it is that our production and distribution chains have become too dependent on foreign availability and delivery time of raw materials.
Traditional raw materials such as steel and aluminum were in limited supply, resulting in huge price increases.
Because the primary production of aluminum traffic signs is a very energy-intensive process, we developed a carbon-neutral Climate Signs traffic sign in-house.
In doing so, Climate Signs is focusing primarily on local plastic waste streams, strengthening production and distribution chains within the region, and ensuring delivery reliability. Through the innovative honeycomb design, we have effectively shaped the design of the future. The current economic climate, with the huge price increases of traditional raw materials offers “the perfect storm” for Climate Signs’ material transition.
Local raw materials reduce globalization, risk within innovative production and distribution chains, and significantly reduce CO2 emissions.
In doing so, Climate Signs is focusing primarily on local plastic waste streams, strengthening production and distribution chains within the region, and ensuring delivery reliability. Through the innovative honeycomb design, we have effectively shaped the design of the future. The current economic climate, with the huge price increases of traditional raw materials offers “the perfect storm” for Climate Signs’ material transition.
Local raw materials reduce globalization, risk within innovative production and distribution chains, and significantly reduce CO2 emissions.
Advantages
All the benefits
at a glance
By combining functionalities to regional raw materials, we are redefining sustainability, biodiversity, circularity and corporate social responsibility (CSR).
In doing so, we play a guiding role, challenging the current system in a positive and stimulating way to change, develop and cooperate in a different way to secure a healthy and sustainable future for the Netherlands.
Quality
100% from biobased or circular raw materials
Climate Signs’ traffic signs are produced 100% from bio-based or circular raw materials, and the production of our sustainable carriers is completely C02-neutral (solar energy).
Any road manager who chooses sustainability will eventually end up with Climate Signs’ innovative traffic signs. In order to make the green transition with traffic signs, it is very important that we deliver a quality comparable to aluminum. Because Climate Signs’ honeycomb traffic sign is the only alternative to aluminum that is fully CE certified, we can deliver the quality described in the EN12899:2007 and NEN 3381 standard.
Any road manager who chooses sustainability will eventually end up with Climate Signs’ innovative traffic signs. In order to make the green transition with traffic signs, it is very important that we deliver a quality comparable to aluminum. Because Climate Signs’ honeycomb traffic sign is the only alternative to aluminum that is fully CE certified, we can deliver the quality described in the EN12899:2007 and NEN 3381 standard.
The carrier of a road sign is only one part of the road sign.
The most important part of the traffic sign is the Signface (image area) affixed to it.
Since for the Climate Signs traffic signs we require only the highest deliverable quality, we chose printing technology with reflection class III film when producing the signface.
Since for the Climate Signs traffic signs we require only the highest deliverable quality, we chose printing technology with reflection class III film when producing the signface.
Maintenance-free and resistant
Climate signs road signs:
Road signs
What is sustainability and what is the actual environmental impact of a product
Using a life cycle analysis (LCA), we calculated the environmental impact of our traffic signs throughout the entire (production) chain.
The life cycle analysis is based on the international standards ISO 14040 and ISO 14044, and form an important basis for sustainable economic weighting in tenders.
The environmental impact of our traffic signs is transparent at every stage of the life cycle.
From raw material extraction to waste disposal, and from energy consumption during production to emissions to air, water and soil have been calculated into the environmental impact.
Climate Signs’ traffic signs have a significantly lower environmental impact than traffic signs produced from traditional raw materials (aluminum).
The supply-chain accounts for more than 80% of total environmental impact in many industries.
Selecting a supplier sustainably can have a huge impact on the environmental footprint of outdoor assets.
The LCA comes from many different categories and sources.
One of these categories is climate impact, expressed in kg CO₂-eq.Commissioned by the VNVF (Association of Dutch Traffic Sign Manufacturers), CE-Delft conducted a sustainability calculation for traffic signs in 2019.
One of the environmental themes investigated was climate impact (CO2-eq. footprint).
MKI
The Environmental Cost Indicator (EQI) summarizes all environmental impacts into a single score and is expressed in Euro`s.
The MKI is a single-score indicator, and aggregates all relevant environmental impacts of a product.
Because Climate Signs’ traffic signs are 100% circularly reusable even in small quantities, the environmental cost indicator is also a weighing factor for circularity.
By reusing basic raw materials we reduce the use of new material and reduce energy consumption and emissions.
Climate Signs produces the most sustainable traffic sign in the Netherlands and we are proud of it.
Sustainable Transition Goals
– Efficient use of existing residual streams
– Reduce carbon footprint for road signs
– Make 100% circular use of regional
– Dutch plastic waste streams
– Extending life cycle of plastic materials