Category - automotive

End-of-Life Vehicles (ELV) Directive: Key Facts for ELV Compliance

The End-of-Life Vehicles Directive (ELV Directive) is a core regulation in the European Union – designed to reduce the environmental impact of...

Conflict Minerals Explained: Understanding 3TG and Their Compliance Impact

Conflict minerals – tin, tungsten, tantalum, and gold (3TG) – are essential raw materials in countless modern products, from smartphones to cars and...

EU Conflict Minerals Regulation: A Compliance Imperative for Global Supply Chains

Armed conflicts and human rights abuses linked to mineral sourcing have long raised red flags. With the EU Conflict Minerals Regulation in force,...

REACH Regulation & Reporting: Navigating EU Chemicals Compliance with Confidence

A single screw coated with a restricted substance can trigger penalties across 30 countries – that’s today’s reality for manufacturers. Since 2007...

CSRD & Scope 3: Why Value Chain Emissions Demand a Closer Look

Understanding Scope 3 emissions is no longer optional – it’s a regulatory imperative. Under the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD),...

Responsible Minerals: Sourcing Policy and Use in Global Supply Chains

If you manage supply chain compliance, you know the landscape has dramatically shifted. What began as conflict minerals reporting focused on 3TG...

Sustainable Product Design: Driving the Future of Responsible Manufacturing

Sustainable product design is more than just a trend; it is a necessity in today’s industrial landscape. As businesses strive to minimize their...

Navigating Automotive Regulatory Compliance in a Complex Industry

In today’s automotive industry, compliance is a strategic necessity. From hazardous substance restrictions to end-of-life vehicle directives,...

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...

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...

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...

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 industry, understanding the landscape is vital....

Over 50% See Growing Interest in Sustainability

The automotive sector is undergoing a significant transformation, with sustainability taking center stage. The latest iPoint Automotive Compliance &...

Deciphering the Carbon Footprint of Car Manufacturing

According to a report by the European Environment Agency, transport was responsible for around a quarter of the EU's total CO₂ emissions in 2022....

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 a short ride down memory lane, looking at the...

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 in particular. The accelerating concern for climate...

Integration of the Catena-X PCF Rulebook into IMDS

The Catena-X automotive network has achieved a significant milestone in standardizing the requirements for CO2 footprints in the automotive industry...

Are there barriers to CO2 reduction in the automotive industry?

In the iPoint Sustainability & Compliance Trend Study 2022, we have gained many valuable insights. Among other things, our survey showed that 56% of...

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 a time when environmental impacts are becoming...

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 insights into sustainability and compliance. Of a...

"Companies simply cannot deliver as they want."

"Companies are faced with a major problem: They simply cannot deliver as they want - there are too few LCA experts and the dynamics are too high." -

Implementation of circular economy strategies in product development

Considering aspects of the circular economy right from the product design stage is the most effective approach a company can take to improve the...

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 circular economy, sometimes moving at an even faster...

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 Study 2020. However, in addition to the sudden...

Discover the iPoint Suite

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

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 chain due diligence law...

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 lifecycles of products, materials, and supply chain...

We are living in a material world

Materials and substances are the fundamental building blocks required to produce bigger components, then large assemblies, and finally complete...

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 providing detailed substance and materials information...

How The Automotive Sector Can Do MedTech

Due to COVID-19, protective masks and respiratory equipment are in high demand. iPoint Compliance can support the automotive sector in achieving...

Going Beyond IMDS with iPoint Approval

The race to introduce a product to the market is a fierce one; where companies are constantly trying to shorten the product cycle. One of the items...

Enterprise Blockchain 2028

Gartner: Corporate Blockchain Won’t Take Off for Another Decade Hype comes with a placebo effect, and this effect is real. It makes people do...

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 IMDS activities inhouse it took only nine months...

Why we built the iPoint Suite

In iPoint’s software solutions, the CARE principle forms the foundation. All our software solutions collect, analyze, report and help companies to...

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 the media. Some herald it as enabling mobility with...

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 analyzed for compliance purposes, however, current...

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 cycle information flows. Better quality of results,...

How to build a sustainable car?

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

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...