Category - manufacturing

EU Battery Regulation: New Requirements Across the Life Cycle

Whether in electric vehicles, industrial machinery, or consumer electronics, batteries are at the heart of today’s manufacturing value chains. For...

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...

Sustainable Manufacturing: How to Achieve a Green Production

Industrial engineering and manufacturing of products is always accompanied by the extraction and consumption of raw materials from nature and the use...

Eco Efficiency Analysis: Balancing Profit and Planet

In today's business landscape, companies face the dual challenge of achieving profitability while minimizing their environmental impact. This article...

The Digital Product Passport: Regulation, Requirements, and Industry Impact in the EU

The Digital Product Passport (DPP) is one of the European Union’s most ambitious initiatives to promote transparency, traceability, and sustainable...

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...

What is Resource & Material Efficiency for Businesses?

Resource efficiency stands for the relationship between natural raw materials or technical-economic materials and the benefits gained from their use,...

PFAS Regulation in the EU: From POP to REACH

Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) have gained global attention due to their widespread use and potential effects on human health and 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 Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS) has become a...

Understanding PFAS: Regulations & Relevance for Companies

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

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

Sustainability is becoming increasingly important in production in the manufacturing industry and is already a key factor for many manufacturers. The...

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

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 introduction of which companies commit themselves to...

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...

Digital Battery Passports to Enable Circular Battery Ecosystems in the EU

The industry-driven debate on digital battery passports as enablers of a circular economy has gained increased momentum. To provide a research-guided...

Circular Economy Implementation in Businesses – Cross-sectoral findings

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

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...

Carbon Transparency – an Opportunity for Companies and the Environment

Reducing carbon emissions is undoubtedly one of the greatest challenges for companies to combat climate change. “Carbon is the new calorie”, says...

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...

Medical Device Industry – Trends in 2020

Several global companies from the Medical Device industry like Becton Dickinson, Roche, Emerson or Zimmer Biomet are longterm customers of iPoint and...

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...

How to successfully market your products worldwide – faster

To speed up the development of new products companies need to evaluate data on products, materials and substances thoroughly and transforms them into...

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...

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...