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CSRD & Omnibus Proposal 2025: Key Changes, New Timeline & Impact for Your Business

On February 26, 2025, the European Commission published the long-anticipated Simplification Omnibus proposal. This legislative package forms part of...

Confidentiality-preserving data exchange to enable sustainable product management

In a recent study by the Christian Doppler Laboratory for Sustainable Product Management, co-funded by iPoint Systems, different digital methods were...

Breathing Life into Compliance

In the dynamic world of industrial production, compliance and regulatory conformity are crucial. On the one hand, they enable access to different...

Umberto 11 - Scenarios for better decisions

Sustainability Optimization Umberto supports companies in improving their environmental performance - since more than 25 years. Through analyses of...

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...

Amazon requires climate targets and emissions data from suppliers

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

"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...

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...

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...

iPoint and BASF collaborate on Product Carbon Footprint (PCF) calculation

iPoint and BASF are collaborating on the topic of carbon footprint to drive the standardized calculation of product carbon footprints in the chemical...

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...

New SCIP reporting obligations in the Automotive Industry

With SCIP database being open to submission for one year now and data finally being disseminated as well, demands on how to submit data are...

German Government clarifies – SCIP Database has to be used to fulfil reporting obligation

The obligation for EU based entities to report data on SVHC containing products to the SCIP database (short for Substances of Concern in articles as...

SCIP Dissemination Portal now live

Ever since January 2021, when the reporting of Substances of Very High Concern (SVHC) in articles as such and in complex objects to the SCIP database...

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...

SCIP Database Connector successfully used by our customers

Our software solution is already successfully used by our customers from various industries e.g. Healthcare, Electronics, Manufacturing or...

SCIP Database – iPoint Compliance automates the exchange of information

>Free Demo Video – SCIP Database Connector Watch the video to hear about the latest updates on ECHA SCIP database and see a live demo of iPoint’s...

CO2-pricing in Germany – Significance and consequences for companies

Since January 1rst, 2021, in Germany a new CO2 pricing on fuels has been in force. It demands that from now on, a distributor will have to pay a...

EU Commission not empowered to postpone SCIP

On September 21, 2020, 40 EU and non-EU industry associations asked the European Commission to postpone the date for suppliers to start fulfilling...

SCIP Database Connector Enterprise & Professional released

Hear about the latest updates on ECHA SCIP database and see a live demo of the officially released iPoint’s SCIP Database Connector. Our software...

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...

New IUCLID version by ECHA

ECHA will release the new version of IUCLID (https://iuclid6.echa.europa.eu/) on October 28th. With that the release of version 1.0 of the SCIP...

SCIP reporting using IMDS system vs. iPoint SCIP connector

We are all aware that SCIP reporting requires a considerable effort for almost all affected companies. Thus, every form of facilitation is helpful,...

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...

How does Brexit affect you?

The planned transitional period will run until 31 December 2020. After the end of the transition period, EU legislation will no longer apply directly...

SCIP FAQ: The Echa SCIP Database

Update 2021: We have update the FAQ – check out what’s new Our SCIP FAQ document provides a summary of frequently asked questions concerning the SCIP...

ECHA Updates SVHC Candidate List: 4 New Substances

On June 25, ECHA added four new candidates to the list of substances of very high concern. iPoint’s systems reacted immediately to the new entries...

Sneak Peek at iPoint’s SCIP Connector

See a live demo of the iPoint Compliance SCIP Connector that automates the creation of SCIP dossiers and the exchange of data with ECHA`s new SCIP...

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.

ECHA drops one mandatory field for SCIP database reporting

During the last SCIP database workshop on March 17th, 2020, ECHA indicated a change to the mandatory fields for SCIP reporting. Upon iPoint’s...

SCIP database alpha testing and RoHS (2011/65/EU)

In our webinar “How to get ready for ECHA’s SCIP database“ we were excited to be able to give you an impression of the system-to-system solution that...

Homeland Security and Your Supply Chain

The US Dept. of Homeland Security is committed to enforcing anti-human trafficking and forced labor laws. What does their new ‘Strategy’ document...

SCIP Database test version available

On Monday, February 17th, 2020, the long-awaited release of the test version of SCIP database – short for Substances of Concern In articles as such,...

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...

First glimpse at the SCIP database

During last week’s ECHA IT working group meeting iPoint’s experts had the chance to get a first glimpse at what the SCIP database will look like....

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...

Results from the ECHA workshops and new SCIP website launched

Since our last update on the SCIP database, work has progressed further. Not only have we participated in ECHA’s workshop in Helsinki in November and...

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...

iPoint participates in ECHA’s SCIP Database Kick-off meeting

Last week saw the kick-off meeting for stakeholders of the SCIP database held by the European Chemicals Agency ECHA. The agency gave insights into...

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 ….

How to answer the three fundamental questions and evolve your business

It’s obvious that companies need transparency for good decision-making and any management of compliance, risk, governance, or sustainability topics.

How digitalization and knowledge creates transparency for businesses

We believe in continuous progression with technology. This can be accomplished by making complexity manageable with the digitalization of Life Cycles...

Identify risks and achieve anti-human trafficking compliance with eLRT Lite

On Thursday, August 8th, eLRT Lite, a simplified version of the electronic Labour Rights Template, was launched. Pia Ostroske (P.O.) interviewed...

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...

4 new substances added to the Candidate List of substances of very high concern (SVHC) and important changes in the near future

On July 16, 2019, the European Chemical Agency (ECHA) has published 4 new candidate substances. This candidate list that contains the so called SVHC...

How to use Life Cycle Information to set AND reach your Sustainability Goals