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Combining Product Compliance & Sustainability: A Must for Modern Businesses

Businesses today are no longer grappling with just product compliance or sustainability in isolation. These two dimensions are converging, driven by...

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Automotive Compliance Sustainability Manufacturing

Unlocking Environmental Excellence: Substances and Materials

Materials and substances are the foundational elements used to create larger components and complete products like smartphones, vehicles, and medical...

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E-Waste Dilemma: The Environmental Impact of Electronics

In today's world, electronic devices are indispensable. However, their production, use, and disposal have significant environmental impacts. The...

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Automotive Compliance Sustainability

Navigating New Regulatory Waters: The Imperative of Balancing Human Expertise and Technological Innovation

As sustainability transitions from being a goal to an essential requirement in the automotive industry, grasping the current trends is vital. Our...

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Automotive Compliance Sustainability

Shifting Gears for a Sustainable Future: A Financial Commitment to Compliance and Eco-Friendly Practices

Our annual Automotive Trend Survey captures the insights of compliance and sustainability experts from across the industry and reveals four key...

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Combining Product Compliance & Sustainability: A Must for Modern Businesses

Businesses today are no longer grappling with just product compliance or sustainability in...

Unlocking Environmental Excellence: Substances and Materials

Materials and substances are the foundational elements used to create larger components and...

E-Waste Dilemma: The Environmental Impact of Electronics

In today's world, electronic devices are indispensable. However, their production, use, and...

Navigating New Regulatory Waters: The Imperative of Balancing Human Expertise and Technological Innovation

As sustainability transitions from being a goal to an essential requirement in the automotive...

Shifting Gears for a Sustainable Future: A Financial Commitment to Compliance and Eco-Friendly Practices

Our annual Automotive Trend Survey captures the insights of compliance and sustainability experts...

Prioritizing a Green Future: Sustainability Surpasses Compliance

In an era where sustainability is not just a goal but is becoming a mandate for the automotive...

Over 50% See Growing Interest in Sustainability

The automotive sector is undergoing a significant transformation, with sustainability taking center...

PFAS Regulation in the EU: From POP to REACH

Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) have gained global attention due to their widespread use...

Powering the Future: Sustainability in the Electronics Industry

In an era where electronic devices seamlessly integrate into every facet of our daily lives, the...

EPA's New PFAS Reporting Rule Under TSCA - Covered by our Latest Rule Group

In the rapidly evolving landscape of environmental regulation, the challenge of managing Per- and...

Deciphering the Carbon Footprint of Car Manufacturing

According to a report by the European Environment Agency, transport was responsible for around a...

From Tailpipe to AI: A Brief History of LCA in Automotive

To all the LCA enthusiasts and sustainability experts out there -– this one is for you. Let's take...

Sustainability in the Automotive Industry: Navigating the Green Road

When it comes to sustainability, all eyes are on the transport sector and the automotive industry...

LCA Data for Life Cycle Assessment: Unlocking Environmental Insights

In the pursuit of sustainability, Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) has emerged as a powerful tool for...

Understanding PFAS: Regulations & Relevance for Companies

PFAS, or Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances, have become a significant global concern due to their...

Confidentiality-preserving data exchange to enable sustainable product management

In a recent study by the Christian Doppler Laboratory for Sustainable Product Management, co-funded...

What challenges arise in the adoption of circular economy?

There is a wide range of potential benefits, clearer regulations, policies, as well as urgency (see...

Breathing Life into Compliance

In the dynamic world of industrial production, compliance and regulatory conformity are crucial. On...

Integration of the Catena-X PCF Rulebook into IMDS

The Catena-X automotive network has achieved a significant milestone in standardizing the...

Umberto 11 - Scenarios for better decisions

Sustainability Optimization Umberto supports companies in improving their environmental performance...

Are there barriers to CO2 reduction in the automotive industry?

In the iPoint Sustainability & Compliance Trend Study 2022, we have gained many valuable insights....

Green speed? This is how important sustainability and CO2 reduction targets are for the automotive industry

The world is changing faster than ever before and the automotive industry is at a turning point. At...

CSRD – Well Prepared Thanks to Data-Driven Intelligence

Sustainability in Discrete Manufacturing: Capture, Analyse, Report and Optimise. Is sustainability...

Surprising survey results on compliance and sustainability in the automotive industry

The iPoint Compliance & Sustainability Trend Survey is one of the world's largest surveys offering...

A "Paper Tiger" gets its Teeth

The EU is getting tough: CSRD. The EU is to become climate-neutral by 2050 - to achieve this goal,...

Amazon requires climate targets and emissions data from suppliers

The key to net-zero is found in the supply chain

Sustainable Manufacturing: How to Achieve a Green Production

Industrial engineering and manufacturing of products is always accompanied by the extraction and...

Circular Economy: a Key Factor to Sustainability

As we navigate today's global environmental challenges, the circular economy offers a refreshing...

"Companies simply cannot deliver as they want."

"Companies are faced with a major problem: They simply cannot deliver as they want - there are too...

Building a Digital Circular Economy

In today's rapidly evolving business landscape, the integration of digital technologies is...

Sustainable products are the future: in sales, compliance, and production.

Sustainability is becoming increasingly important in production in the manufacturing industry and...

The iPoint Sustainability and Compliance Trends Survey 2022

Surprisingly, companies worldwide, especially in Asia, increasingly view sustainability and...

Implementation of digital technologies for a circular economy and sustainability management in the manufacturing sector

Implementation of digital technologies for a circular economy and sustainability management in the...

Understanding the ISO 14000 Family of Standards

Back in the year 1987, the International Organization for Standardization introduced a number of...

What is an Environmental Management System? From EMAS to ISO 14001

The term environmental management system refers to a holistic and strategic framework with the...

How companies benefit from circular economy

Converting a company to a circular economy is an important step but many business leaders aren't...

Implementation of circular economy strategies in product development

Considering aspects of the circular economy right from the product design stage is the most...

How new policies worldwide advance the Circular Economy

The growing importance of the circular economy and circular business models manifests itself in...

What is Resource & Material Efficiency for Businesses?

Resource efficiency stands for the relationship between natural raw materials or technical-economic...

How the automotive & electronics industry transitions towards the Circular Economy

In addition to activities of legislative bodies, industry itself has set out on a path towards...

Drive business value by data analysis – iPoint CARE

Data analysis for product compliance and sustainability, like Life Cycle Assessment or Product...

Digital Product Passports: Pioneers for Sustainable Economy

Whether climate protection, circular economy, or resource efficiency, without transparent value and...

Digital technologies for sustainable product management in a circular economy

The increased use of digital technologies is considered as a key enabler for a more sustainable and...

Digital battery passports to enable circular battery ecosystems in Europe

The industry driven debate on digital battery passports as enablers of a circular economy has...

The Digital Product Passport – a prerequisite for a Circular Economy

The concept of the circular economy is gaining more and more prominence on the agendas of...

Eco Efficiency Analysis: Balancing Profit and Planet

In today's business landscape, companies face the dual challenge of achieving profitability while...

Collect Data for Compliance and Sustainability – iPoint CARE

Data collection is the first step on the road to successful product compliance and sustainability...

iPoint and BASF collaborate on Product Carbon Footprint (PCF) calculation

iPoint and BASF are collaborating on the topic of carbon footprint to drive the standardized...

Sustainability and Compliance Trends Study

The world’s largest sustainability and compliance trends survey entered its fourth round, with over...

Sustainable Product Development in a Circular Economy

The concept of circular economy is of great interest to companies since it provides a framework to...

New SCIP reporting obligations in the Automotive Industry

With SCIP database being open to submission for one year now and data finally being disseminated...

German Government clarifies – SCIP Database has to be used to fulfil reporting obligation

The obligation for EU based entities to report data on SVHC containing products to the SCIP...

To Recycle or Not to Recycle – PVC Cable Waste is the Question

Recycling – it’s the magic word when the ill-informed think “environmental friendliness”....

Using blockchain to achieve the SDGs and solve social challenges

Insights into the INATBA Blockchain for Social Impact Report

SCIP Dissemination Portal now live

Ever since January 2021, when the reporting of Substances of Very High Concern (SVHC) in articles...

The Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation: A Spotlight on Finance

A conversation between Joerg Walden of iPoint and Juan Ibañez and Dr. Chris Bayer of Development...

Circular Economy Implementation in Businesses – Cross-sectoral findings

by Lukas Stumpf, Josef-Peter Schöggl, Rupert J. Baumgartner

Sustainability and Compliance Trends 2020 With a Focus on the Automotive Industry

The pandemic crisis heavily influenced the year 2020, which likely also impacted iPoint’s Trends...

Sustainability Reporting Directive

A conversation between Joerg Walden of iPoint and Juan Ibañez and Dr. Chris Bayer of Development...

Discover the iPoint Suite

The iPoint Suite offers solutions for the entire product life cycle – from design to production and...

Meeting SCIP Reporting Requirements in the Electronics Industry

Since 2003, the electronics industry sector has gained experience reporting RoHS (Restriction on...

4 Months of SCIP reporting obligation – what are the experiences so far?

The obligation to report products that are put on the EU market and contain of SVHCs (Substances of...

Case Study: MFCA in Industrial Filter Production – Reducing the Use of Resources in Textile Filter Systems

ifu Hamburg GmbH, member of iPoint Group, HTW Berlin and UKOM jointly supported SMEs in using the ...

Leveling the Pitch: Mandatory Human Rights Due Diligence Legislation in the EU

In March 2021, the European Parliament adopted the Legal Affairs Committee (JURI) report on...

Duty of Care Also in Germany: The Impending Mandatory Due Diligence Legislation

At the beginning of March, German ministries published the government draft of a mandatory supply...

How sustainable is the Circular Economy?

Josef-Peter Schöggl, Lukas Stumpf, Rupert J. Baumgartner

SCIP Database Connector successfully used by our customers

Our software solution is already successfully used by our customers from various industries e.g....

SCIP Database – iPoint Compliance automates the exchange of information

>Free Demo Video – SCIP Database Connector Watch the video to hear about the latest updates on ECHA...

CO2-pricing in Germany – Significance and consequences for companies

Since January 1rst, 2021, in Germany a new CO2 pricing on fuels has been in force. It demands that...

Carbon Transparency – an Opportunity for Companies and the Environment

Reducing carbon emissions is undoubtedly one of the greatest challenges for companies to combat...

Maximizing Products’ Sustainability Performance and Circularity with Digitalization – Update on Research Activities

Anything but a standstill is currently happening in the Christian Doppler Laboratory for...

EU Commission not empowered to postpone SCIP

On September 21, 2020, 40 EU and non-EU industry associations asked the European Commission to...

The Green Deal and the Circular Economy

Zero greenhouse gas emissions until 2050 The European Green Deal Communication (COM(2019) 640...

SCIP Database Connector Enterprise & Professional released

Hear about the latest updates on ECHA SCIP database and see a live demo of the officially released...

Digitalization and collaboration – A look into the Future

More than 65% of consumers are worried about climate change, and take social and environmental...

I care, you care, we care: The iPoint CARE principle

Many of our customers say that we’ve simplified the complex processes of digitalizing the...

New IUCLID version by ECHA

ECHA will release the new version of IUCLID (https://iuclid6.echa.europa.eu/) on October 28th. With...

SCIP reporting using IMDS system vs. iPoint SCIP connector

We are all aware that SCIP reporting requires a considerable effort for almost all affected...

From Compliance to Sustainability – The iPoint Suite

iPoint’s software covers a lot of ground. In combination, our software products provide a broad...

Data – the raw material required for good decision making in the transition to a Circular Economy

Properly utilized data is a valuable resource. In our increasingly digital world, most efficiency...

Expanding compliance processes and tools to better manage sustainability

Many companies voluntarily go beyond regulatory requirements, setting higher expectations and...

Blockchain for Sustainability & Social Impact: Help Us Map the Ecosystem!

In the past few years, we’ve seen a plethora of projects and initiatives emerge, focusing on...

End-to-end material lifecycle management is key

When it comes to materials in products, what we call “end of life” is also the “beginning-of-life”....

How does Brexit affect you?

The planned transitional period will run until 31 December 2020. After the end of the transition...

A Natural Path to Managing Material Lifecycles

Meeting all local and global regulatory requirements is a must for all companies doing business in...

The current state of material compliance management

Materials and substances used in manufacturing plants need to comply with health, safety, and...

We are living in a material world

Materials and substances are the fundamental building blocks required to produce bigger components,...

SCIP database to be launched in late October – no indication that deadline in January 2021 will be postponed

The European Chemical Agency ECHA informed that during the last week of October, the SCIP database...

Cobalt unmasked – Is cobalt really a sustainable option?

In recent years, the demand for cobalt has steadily increased with the development of the electric...

Mandatory Human Rights and Environmental Due Diligence in Europe: Coming to a Country Near You

The European Union plans to introduce legislation requiring companies to undertake human rights and...

Increasing material profitability with MFCA in low-loss production

ifu Hamburg, Member of iPoint Group, and Umwelttechnik BW (State Agency for Environmental...

Maximizing Products’ Sustainability Performance and Circularity with Digitalization – Part 3/3

Continuous meetings with the (industry) partners of the CD-Lab are key to fostering knowledge and...

SCIP FAQ: The Echa SCIP Database

Update 2021: We have update the FAQ – check out what’s new Our SCIP FAQ document provides a summary...

Maximizing Products’ Sustainability Performance and Circularity with Digitalization – Part 2/3

The Christian Doppler Laboratory for Sustainable Product Management is a 7-year project with a...

Maximizing Products’ Sustainability Performance and Circularity with Digitalization – Part 1/3

To support the ambitious Circular Economy Action Plan adopted by the European Union, the...

ECHA Updates SVHC Candidate List: 4 New Substances

On June 25, ECHA added four new candidates to the list of substances of very high concern....

CMRT 6.01 & CRT 2.11 Available and Active on iPoint Conflict Minerals

On May 19, 2020, CMRT 6.01 and CRT 2.11 were released and made available for download. As of June...

Sneak Peek at iPoint’s SCIP Connector

See a live demo of the iPoint Compliance SCIP Connector that automates the creation of SCIP...

Compliance Reporting for Electronics – new challenges driven by the Automotive industry and the EU SCIP database

Chemical compliance reporting for electronics or products with electronics in them involves...

The new EU Regulation of Medical Devices – MDR

Is your company and your supply chain ready to tackle the new EU MDR requirements? Get prepared for...

How The Automotive Sector Can Do MedTech

Due to COVID-19, protective masks and respiratory equipment are in high demand. iPoint Compliance...

ECHA drops one mandatory field for SCIP database reporting

During the last SCIP database workshop on March 17th, 2020, ECHA indicated a change to the...

SCIP database alpha testing and RoHS (2011/65/EU)

In our webinar “How to get ready for ECHA’s SCIP database“ we were excited to be able to give you...

Homeland Security and Your Supply Chain

The US Dept. of Homeland Security is committed to enforcing anti-human trafficking and forced labor...

SCIP Database test version available

On Monday, February 17th, 2020, the long-awaited release of the test version of SCIP database –...

Are menstrual cups a “green lie”?

An LCA comparing menstrual cups and tampons shows that products advertised as particularly...

Can Digitalization help to save costs related to Sustainability & Compliance?

The Sustainability and Compliance Trends Survey 2019 is one of the largest global surveys on...

The Cost of Compliance & Sustainability – How companies’ spending evolved in 2019

The Sustainability and Compliance Trends Survey 2019 is one of the largest global surveys on...

First glimpse at the SCIP database

During last week’s ECHA IT working group meeting iPoint’s experts had the chance to get a first...

How sustainable is a service or a product? Digitalization, IoT and Big Data are providing new possibilities for research

How sustainable is a service or a product? This question is becoming more and more important in...

The Global Medical Device Industry – a spotlight on India and China

Japan has one of the highest geriatric populations in the world and because of that they have a...

Medical Device Industry – Trends in 2020

Several global companies from the Medical Device industry like Becton Dickinson, Roche, Emerson or...

Results from the ECHA workshops and new SCIP website launched

Since our last update on the SCIP database, work has progressed further. Not only have we...

Going Beyond IMDS with iPoint Approval

The race to introduce a product to the market is a fierce one; where companies are constantly...

How to provide Life Cycle Information for non-LCA experts

Thanks to automatization and data interfacing, LCA is becoming accessible to any role in an...

Conflict Minerals – Cobalt, EU-3TG and Sanctioned Entities

Why you should establish proactive business practices to manage the shift from conflict minerals...

Enterprise Blockchain 2028

Gartner: Corporate Blockchain Won’t Take Off for Another Decade Hype comes with a placebo effect,...

How Toyota North America ensures the compliance of its products

When Toyota North America decided for iPoint Compliance as the leading solution to manage all their...

iPoint participates in ECHA’s SCIP Database Kick-off meeting

Last week saw the kick-off meeting for stakeholders of the SCIP database held by the European...

How to collect information from your supply chain – Where an industry standard does not exist!

When it comes to collecting information from your supply chain, having certain industry standards,...

Why we built the iPoint Suite

In iPoint’s software solutions, the CARE principle forms the foundation. All our software solutions...

Why we CARE – and YOU CARE ALREADY

Since 2001 customers, ranging from SMEs to Fortune 500 companies, have been using our software...

How to answer the three fundamental questions and evolve your business

It’s obvious that companies need transparency for good decision-making and any management of...

How digitalization and knowledge creates transparency for businesses

We believe in continuous progression with technology. This can be accomplished by making complexity...

Why increasing market dynamics lead to complexity

Today’s companies face high pressure by investors to improve revenue, by regulations to abide by...

Carbon Footprint of Electric Cars: Is E-Mobility Truly Sustainable?

Electric cars and e-mobility are hotly debated issue right now, both in scientific circles and in...

Identify risks and achieve anti-human trafficking compliance with eLRT Lite

On Thursday, August 8th, eLRT Lite, a simplified version of the electronic Labour Rights Template,...

Do LCAs reveal green lies?

As life cycle experts know, Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) is a useful tool to either confirm or...

Cobalt Reporting via the iPoint SustainHub

Cobalt is the key element used in batteries of mobile phones, laptops, and electric vehicles and...

4 new substances added to the Candidate List of substances of very high concern (SVHC) and important changes in the near future

On July 16, 2019, the European Chemical Agency (ECHA) has published 4 new candidate substances....

How to increase Business Transparency by assessing compliance data – exactly where its needed

Companies currently using SAP® have a vast amount of existing data in their system that can be...

How to use Life Cycle Information to set AND reach your Sustainability Goals

Volvo Cars and iPoint systems act jointly in improving availability of and accessibility to life...

How to build a sustainable car?

What are the challenges for the implementation of Sustainable Product Development in the automotive...

iPoint Provides Pilot Tool For EU LIFE Project AskREACH

iPoint Compliance becomes the pilot tool for the EU Project LIFE AskREACH. In addition, iPoint...

How to successfully market your products worldwide – faster

To speed up the development of new products companies need to evaluate data on products, materials...

LCA of lithium-ion batteries – there’s more to it than you think

With the use of electric vehicles on the rise, there’s a lot of buzz about how environmentally...

Achieving transparency starts with digitalization – How blockchain can deliver social, economic and environmental benefits

It is hard to argue that industrialism didn’t improve the world.

Discrepancy of RoHS and REACH – Compliance Changes 2019

ROHS Directive starts to restrict the Phthalates listed in ROHS Annex II. But with regard to REACH...

Exploring efficiency potentials in the recycling industry

Earlier this year, a team of consultants from ifu Hamburg, Member of iPoint Group, held an initial...

German Battery Forum 2019: a round-up of congress highlights

Andreas Genest from ifu Hamburg, Member of iPoint Group, attended the BatterieForum Deutschland...

Remarkable MFCA results in a German foundry

The German family business C&C Bark Metalldruckguss und Formenbau GmbH produces magnesium die casts...

iPoint’s systems always stay up to date with new SVHC entries

On January 15, 2019, the European Chemical Agency (ECHA) has published 6 new entries to the...

MFCA Hamburg – Resource Efficiency Flagships

How will we make Hamburg’s industry more efficient and sustainable? To answer this question, the...

How to bring transparency into the supply chain

More and more people are consuming more consciously and want to know where a product they buy comes...

Will there be a UK REACH?

What will be the challenges Brexit will have to your business on the products and services that you...

The Sustainability & Compliance Trends Survey 2019

The overwhelming response on our Sustainability & Compliance Trends Survey 2018 encouraged us to...

Customized Transparency with iPCA Web

The new web-client of the iPoint Compliance Agent, iPCA Web, enables companies to advance...

Sustainability and Compliance Trends – What Kept Companies Busy in 2018?

At the beginning of 2018, iPoint started to conduct a survey on Sustainability and Compliance...

Envisioning a sustainable future: increasing resource efficiency through digitization

Digitalization and Industry 4.0 loom large on the horizon of manufacturing. For many companies,...

A Compliance Survey Tool that Grows with Your Supply Chain

In November 2018, iPoint launched a new compliance survey app for the SustainHub platform as a...

Sankey Diagram: Tasty Christmas Special

If you wish to delight all of your colleagues with a tasty christmas present, here is a simple...

Material Flow Cost Accounting for strategic business decisions

Material Flow Cost Accounting, or MFCA, is most widely known as an instrument used by manufacturing...

Chocolate efficiently produced: Energy management at Ritter Sport

Ritter Sport, the well-known German producer of chocolate bars in the distinctive, square package,...

SustainHub Roadmap 2019

Free Webinar: Innovative insights and an exclusive outlook on the SustainHub Join Sebastian...

France’s Due Diligence Law – Loi sur le devoir de vigilance

On April 24, 2013, more than 1,000 people in Bangladesh lost their lives when the textiles factory...

Sankey Skyscraping – Visualizing the huge energy demand in cement production

Smart Microorganisms at Work: Turning Waste into Bioplastic

How a waste product like pentose wood sugars is transformed into bioplastic and can be used as a...

Blockchain for Circular Supply Chain

Blockchain technology enables us to digitize and streamline the supply chain workflows to improve...

Are you ready for Brexit? Check your Brexit-Readiness

On March 29th 2017, the United Kingdom notified the European Council of its intention to withdraw...

Together, we bring fw: transparency

At iPoint, we bring fw: transparency and places it at the forefront of everything that we do.

New standard ISO 50001 for energy management places increased demands on companies

Recertification of an energy management system according to ISO 50001 has become more demanding –...

Lids against Polio

Poliomyelitis, more commonly referred to as polio, is an illness that has been almost completely...

fw: transparency 2019 – Save the date!

Under the slogan: “Latest Trends in Product Compliance and Sustainability – Integration as a Key to...

Life Cycle Impact Assessment – the Most Widely Used LCIA Methods

Whenever someone starts his or her first LCA study, one of the questions to be answered is, which...

Human Trafficking and Modern Slavery – how to mitigate financial and reputational risk

According the latest Global Slavery Index (GSI), released in July 2018, it can be estimated that...

The new California Proposition 65 Warning Regulations

The California Proposition 65 is a California Law that came into effect in 1986.

A Sankey Diagram Says More Than 1.000 Pie Charts

What are Sankey diagrams? Engineers and environmental scientists will be able to answer this...

Facing the regulatory challenges of the aftermarket

OEMs and their suppliers are facing multiple regulatory challenges when it comes to the so called...

“Let’s stop re-inventing the wheel with everybody starting from the scratch when creating a material and energy flow model!”

Do you still rerecord, what you thought and expected when you started with your first flow model of...