Category - electronics

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,...

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...

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...

Powering the Future: Sustainability in the Electronics Industry

In an era where electronic devices seamlessly integrate into every facet of our daily lives, the demand for sustainability in the global electronics...

Amazon requires climate targets and emissions data from suppliers

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

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...

Drive business value by data analysis – iPoint CARE

Data analysis for product compliance and sustainability, like Life Cycle Assessment or Product Carbon Footprints, provide your company with a crucial...

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.

Meeting SCIP Reporting Requirements in the Electronics Industry

Since 2003, the electronics industry sector has gained experience reporting RoHS (Restriction on Hazardous Substances) chemicals for products that it...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...