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CSRD Omnibus 2026: Key Changes, New Thresholds & Impact for Your Business

Update June 2026: The EU Omnibus package has moved from proposal to adopted law. The Omnibus I Directive, formally published as Directive (EU)...

The New ELV Regulation Explained: How the EU Is Reshaping End-of-Life Vehicles for Circularity

The EU’s updated ELV Regulation marks a major shift in how Europe approaches vehicle circularity, recycling, and end-of-life treatment. While the...

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...

CSRD – Well Prepared Thanks to Data-Driven Intelligence

Sustainability in Discrete Manufacturing: Capture, Analyse, Report and Optimise. Is sustainability the new compliance? The intent behind the European...

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, the "toothless paper tiger NFRD (Non Financial...

"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." -

The iPoint Sustainability and Compliance Trends Survey 2022

Surprisingly, companies worldwide, especially in Asia, increasingly view sustainability and compliance as important factors in their business...

How new policies worldwide advance the Circular Economy

The growing importance of the circular economy and circular business models manifests itself in policies and regulations designed to advance the...

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...

Collect Data for Compliance and Sustainability – iPoint CARE

Data collection is the first step on the road to successful product compliance and sustainability in order to obtain type approval and bring a...

Sustainability and Compliance Trends Study

The world’s largest sustainability and compliance trends survey entered its fourth round, with over 1000 responses received from experts across the...

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...

CO₂ Pricing in Germany: Significance and Consequences for Companies

Germany's national CO₂ pricing system for transport and heating has been reshaping cost structures for companies and consumers since January 2021....

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...

From Compliance to Sustainability – The iPoint Suite

iPoint’s software covers a lot of ground. In combination, our software products provide a broad spectrum of compliance, sustainability, and risk...

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 the 7 major changes in Medical Device Regulation.

Are menstrual cups a “green lie”?

An LCA comparing menstrual cups and tampons shows that products advertised as particularly sustainable are not always the truly sustainable...

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...

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, such as the Conflict Minerals Reporting Template...

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...

Why we CARE – and YOU CARE ALREADY

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

Cobalt Reporting via the iPoint SustainHub

Cobalt is the key element used in batteries of mobile phones, laptops, and electric vehicles and hence the demand for cobalt has been increasing year...

Will there be a UK REACH?

What will be the challenges Brexit will have to your business on the products and services that you supply? Will there be a UK REACH for the...

The Sustainability & Compliance Trends Survey 2019

The overwhelming response on our Sustainability & Compliance Trends Survey 2018 encouraged us to continue our research to keep our fingers on the...

Customized Transparency with iPCA Web

The new web-client of the iPoint Compliance Agent, iPCA Web, enables companies to advance transparency in their supply chain and provide their...

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 Trends 2018 – and the response was overwhelming: More...

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 they worked at collapsed. At that time, a number...

Sankey Skyscraping – Visualizing the huge energy demand in cement production

Blockchain for Circular Supply Chain

Blockchain technology enables us to digitize and streamline the supply chain workflows to improve efficiency, reduce costs and improve management of...

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 – or why a requirement in the accreditation standard...

Human Rights Due Diligence: How to Manage Risk in Your Supply Chain

With 50 million people living in modern slavery today, human rights due diligence (HRDD) has moved from a voluntary commitment to a strategic and...

The new California Proposition 65 Warning Regulations

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

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Innovation@iPoint

The objective of innovation management is to turn great ideas into financially successful products or services. This process used to take place...

Twenty Years in the Making: a Review the 20th Umberto User Workshop

A 20th anniversary is often a marked event, so it was fitting that this year’s Umberto User Workshop was held in Heidelberg, the same venue as the...

iPoint Joins UN Global Compact

On August 7, 2017, iPoint was officially welcomed as a participant of the United Nations Global Compact (UNGC). Launched in 2000, the UNGC has become...

The new CSR Reporting Directive of the EU

Starting with the fiscal year 2017, large listed entities with more than 500 employees will have to disclose relevant non-financial information on...

Innovation Awards for iPoint

In May 2017, independent research firm Verdantix recognized iPoint’s customer Emerson with an Environment, Health & Safety (EH&S) Innovation Award....

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