iPoint Blog on Compliance and Sustainability

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 evaluating the environmental impact of products,...

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 friendly they are. While operational impacts are low...

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

Andreas Genest from ifu Hamburg, Member of iPoint Group, attended the BatterieForum Deutschland 2019 (German Battery Forum) conference, which took...

Chocolate efficiently produced: Energy management at Ritter Sport

Ritter Sport, the well-known German producer of chocolate bars in the distinctive, square package, offers a wide range of confections, each wrapped...

Sankey Skyscraping – Visualizing the huge energy demand in cement production

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 of the available LCIA methods should be used? There...

“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 a real world production system? I remember that...

Thailand‘s pioneer in reducing GHG emissions: Expert interview

I’d like to introduce you to Kularb Kimsri, Vice President at the Global Standard System Centre of Charoen Pokphand Foods Public Company Limited...

Social Life Cycle Analysis: Why Does It Lurk In the Shadow of Environmental LCA?

The term “Life Cycle Analysis” (LCA) is largely assumed to be the technique used for the assessment of the total environmental impact associated with...

Interview with Victor Vladimirov: Hobas Engineering

Gathering quality data is one of the biggest challenges in producing accurate LCAs. In an interview with Victor Vladimirov, environment and energy...

Obtain LCA data from suppliers – Insights from a sustainability consultant

Rebecca LeBlanc is a sustainability consultant at “Strategic Sustainability Consulting” in Boston, USA. Her experience shows that giving the context...

Interview with Matthias Voigtmann, CEO of Energy Consulting Allgäu

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LCAs in the telecommunication sector

Andreas Kröhling, Senior Expert for Corporate Responsibility at “Deutsche Telekom AG” recommends just getting started and keeping at it! Even simply...

Interview with “Germany’s most sustainable large-scale enterprise 2014”

Marko Schnarr works for the environmental office at Miele, the well-known manufacturer of household appliances. His goal is to expand the company’s...

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