Eco Factsheets on demand for Mauser Group
Rotterdam, The Netherlands,
June 2011
Would you like to have an instantly ready and up to date Eco Factsheet for an important client or promising prospect? In cooperation with Mauser Group (Germany) BECO has developed a software application to fulfil this customer need.
Ecotransparancy
An increasing number of international companies are making their sustainable efforts more transparent by communicating environmental data of their products (i.e. carbon footprint) to their customers and stakeholders. On one hand, the communication of objective, structured and normalised environmental data shows responsibility and liability of the company for its own activities. On the other hand, it gives customers and/or consumers the opportunity to identify, verify and question the environmental performance of the specific product and company as a whole.
Mauser Group.
Mauser is a worldwide leading company specialising in industrial packaging. As a global company, Mauser has a responsibility to society, the environment and its customers. To date Mauser has taken significant steps that underline the company’s unique sustainable business approach, and still has more ambitious ideas and plans to incorporate sustainability into its products and activities in the near future, which has been particularly driven by its clients who are expecting Mauser to take environmental commitment and action.
Following this environmental pledge, Mauser has commissioned BECO to assess the environmental impact of their products in a structured and standard way, with a Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) of a selection of their industrial packaging products (2010).
Mauser has the ambition to have an eco factsheet (two page LCA summary) for each product out of the Product range. The LCA exercise covers only a fraction of their product portfolio, performing a complete LCA for each product would be a huge exercise. BECO has assisted Mauser in this challenge by developing a special software application that unlocks the environmental data of the performed LCA in an easy and effective way, named ‘Eco Factsheet Creator’ (EFC).
The EFC designed for Mauser is designed to create an eco factsheet for each variation of the main packaging solutions of Mauser: IBC, plastic drum, steel drum and fibre drum, the first three can be either reconditioned or newly produced. Other variables include the material weights, percentage recycled content, transport and coating type. This allows the creation of the huge amount of eco factsheets as required by Mauser.
Eco Factsheet Creator (EFC)
This Excel-based application is a practical interface to make an extensive environmental database easily accessible. The database has been filled with customised units (building blocks) of materials, processes and transport. After some dialogue-windows and one fill-sheet, the specific product is assembled with quantified and selected units. The eco factsheet is instantly ready for printing or archiving in PDF format.
Highlights of BECO’s EFC include:
- Customised structure and interaction of the application
- All core product (groups) of portfolio covered
- Based on in depth Life Cycle analyses
- User friendly corporate design interface
- BECO Support & User license included
For more information please contact Eelco Rietveld, rietveld@beco.nl
More information about LCA, eco factsheets and the EFC, including a demonstration video is available at: http://www.beco.nl/index.aspx?id=400