When it comes to sustainability, all eyes are on the transport sector and the automotive industry in particular. The accelerating concern for climate...
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...
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...
What challenges arise in the adoption of circular economy?
There is a wide range of potential benefits, clearer regulations, policies, as well as urgency (see article "How companies benefit from circular...
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...
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Understanding PFAS: Regulations & Relevance for Companies
Confidentiality-preserving data exchange to enable sustainable product management
What challenges arise in the adoption of circular economy?
Breathing Life into Compliance
Integration of the Catena-X PCF Rulebook into IMDS
Umberto 11 - Scenarios for better decisions
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CSRD – Well Prepared Thanks to Data-Driven Intelligence
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A "Paper Tiger" gets its Teeth
Amazon requires climate targets and emissions data from suppliers
"Companies simply cannot deliver as they want."
Sustainable products are the future: in sales, compliance, and production.
The iPoint Sustainability and Compliance Trends Survey 2022
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How companies benefit from circular economy
Implementation of circular economy strategies in product development
How new policies worldwide advance the Circular Economy
How the automotive & electronics industry transitions towards the Circular Economy
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Digital Product Passports: Pioneers for Sustainable Economy
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iPoint and BASF collaborate on Product Carbon Footprint (PCF) calculation
Sustainability and Compliance Trends Study
Sustainable Product Development in a Circular Economy
New SCIP reporting obligations in the Automotive Industry
German Government clarifies – SCIP Database has to be used to fulfil reporting obligation
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SCIP Dissemination Portal now live
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Sustainability and Compliance Trends 2020 With a Focus on the Automotive Industry
Sustainability Reporting Directive
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Leveling the Pitch: Mandatory Human Rights Due Diligence Legislation in the EU
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SCIP Database Connector successfully used by our customers
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Carbon Transparency – an Opportunity for Companies and the Environment
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EU Commission not empowered to postpone SCIP
The Green Deal and the Circular Economy
SCIP Database Connector Enterprise & Professional released
Digitalization and collaboration – A look into the Future
I care, you care, we care: The iPoint CARE principle
New IUCLID version by ECHA
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Expanding compliance processes and tools to better manage sustainability
Blockchain for Sustainability & Social Impact: Help Us Map the Ecosystem!
End-to-end material lifecycle management is key
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Maximizing Products’ Sustainability Performance and Circularity with Digitalization – Part 3/3
SCIP FAQ: The Echa SCIP Database
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Compliance Reporting for Electronics – new challenges driven by the Automotive industry and the EU SCIP database
The new EU Regulation of Medical Devices – MDR
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ECHA drops one mandatory field for SCIP database reporting
SCIP database alpha testing and RoHS (2011/65/EU)
Homeland Security and Your Supply Chain
SCIP Database test version available
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The Cost of Compliance & Sustainability – How companies’ spending evolved in 2019
Compliance or Sustainability – What is more important for businesses?
First glimpse at the SCIP database
How sustainable is a service or a product? Digitalization, IoT and Big Data are providing new possibilities for research
The Global Medical Device Industry – a spotlight on India and China
Medical Device Industry – Trends in 2020
Results from the ECHA workshops and new SCIP website launched
Going Beyond IMDS with iPoint Approval
How to provide Life Cycle Information for non-LCA experts
Conflict Minerals – Cobalt, EU-3TG and Sanctioned Entities
Enterprise Blockchain 2028
How Toyota North America ensures the compliance of its products
iPoint participates in ECHA’s SCIP Database Kick-off meeting
How to collect information from your supply chain – Where an industry standard does not exist!
Why we built the iPoint Suite
Why we CARE – and YOU CARE ALREADY
How to answer the three fundamental questions and evolve your business
How digitalization and knowledge creates transparency for businesses
Why increasing market dynamics lead to complexity
Carbon Footprint of Electric Cars: Is E-Mobility Truly Sustainable?
Identify risks and achieve anti-human trafficking compliance with eLRT Lite
Do LCAs reveal green lies?
Cobalt Reporting via the iPoint SustainHub
4 new substances added to the Candidate List of substances of very high concern (SVHC) and important changes in the near future
How to increase Business Transparency by assessing compliance data – exactly where its needed
How to use Life Cycle Information to set AND reach your Sustainability Goals
How to build a sustainable car?
iPoint Provides Pilot Tool For EU LIFE Project AskREACH
How to successfully market your products worldwide – faster
LCA of lithium-ion batteries – there’s more to it than you think
Achieving transparency starts with digitalization – How blockchain can deliver social, economic and environmental benefits
Discrepancy of RoHS and REACH – Compliance Changes 2019
Exploring efficiency potentials in the recycling industry
German Battery Forum 2019: a round-up of congress highlights
Remarkable MFCA results in a German foundry
iPoint’s systems always stay up to date with new SVHC entries
MFCA Hamburg – Resource Efficiency Flagships
How to bring transparency into the supply chain
Will there be a UK REACH?
The Sustainability & Compliance Trends Survey 2019
Customized Transparency with iPCA Web
Sustainability and Compliance Trends – What Kept Companies Busy in 2018?
Envisioning a sustainable future: increasing resource efficiency through digitization
A Compliance Survey Tool that Grows with Your Supply Chain
Sankey Diagram: Tasty Christmas Special
Material Flow Cost Accounting for strategic business decisions
Chocolate efficiently produced: Energy management at Ritter Sport
SustainHub Roadmap 2019
France’s Due Diligence Law – Loi sur le devoir de vigilance
Smart Microorganisms at Work: Turning Waste into Bioplastic
Blockchain for Circular Supply Chain
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Together, we bring fw: transparency
New standard ISO 50001 for energy management places increased demands on companies
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Life Cycle Impact Assessment – which are the LCIA indicator sets most widely used by practitioners?
Human Trafficking and Modern Slavery – how to mitigate financial and reputational risk
The new California Proposition 65 Warning Regulations
A Sankey Diagram Says More Than 1.000 Pie Charts
Facing the regulatory challenges of the aftermarket
“Let’s stop re-inventing the wheel with everybody starting from the scratch when creating a material and energy flow model!”
Towards a Digital Circular Economy
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Innovation@iPoint
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Interview with Victor Vladimirov: Hobas Engineering
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New: Anti-Slavery Reporting Template eLRT
iPoint Joins UN Global Compact
The new CSR Reporting Directive of the EU
Innovation Awards for iPoint
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France passes due diligence law
Material Flow Cost Accounting provides head start for SMEs
Material Flow Cost Accounting: Tips from a consultant
LCAs in the telecommunication sector
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Material Flow Cost Accounting: Resource Efficiency Made Simple
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Wasting food: a brief guide.
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The greening of construction (Part I): Overview
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A Disruptive EU? : Environmental Technology Verification Comes to Europe
Product environmental footprinting: Harmonization or proliferation of standards?
How to dismantle the resource efficiency black box in chemical industries
26 Life-Cycle-Based Business Strategies that Matter
Beyond Heavy Oil – 8 Future-Proof Cargo Vessel Technologies
Chance or Catastrophe? Towards a Constructive Media Coverage of Climate Change
Making an LCA in 1 Hour – How to Get Going with Umberto
The Cow, Black Sheep of Our Climate
Sustainability Triangle? One Pillar Missing!
Efficiency 2.0 – How to Reveal Hidden Savings Potential with Integrated Energy Management
From Data to Knowledge: The Power of Elegant Sankey Diagrams
Top-Notch Sustainability Practitioner Gathering: Umberto User Workshop in Essen, Sept 11/12, 2013
Turning World War II History into a Renewable Present – 3 Striking Sustainable Adaptations from IBA Hamburg
Long-Distance, Low-Impact? Inside Cargo Ship Travelling
First LCA on 3D Printer Sustainability: Green Manufacturing Revolution or Overrated Gadget?
How to Get Maximum Greenhouse Gas Reductions in Emerging Economies, Part II: India, Mexico, South Africa, South Korea
How to Get Maximum Greenhouse Gas Reductions in Emerging Economies, Part I: Brazil and China
5 Steps towards Maximum Resource Efficiency Part 2: Material Flow Modeling, MFCA and LCA Made Easy
5 Steps towards Maximum Resource Efficiency: Material Flow Modeling Made Easy
A Truly Green Building Sector? Sustainable Housing Challenges in Northern Europe
5 Clear-Cut Economic Benefits of Sustainability Reporting
How to Recycle Phosphorus, the Most Least-Known Scarce Resource
ISO 14051-Based Material Flow Cost Accounting in a Nutshell
Who’s Happier – The Proactive Lohas or the Spontaneous Hedonist?
The Truth About the Dragon: China’s Future is Inevitably Green
Discovering All Environmental Effects: How Life Cycle Assessment with LCA Software Works
Cutting GHG Emissions of Industrial Parks by 35% through Corporate Collaboration
How to Invent the Right Institution to Cut Resource Conflicts
From Green to Blue to Gray to Black: The Chromatics of Water Footprints
Kyoto’s CO2-Baseline Wrong by 7% – But Today’s GHG Inventories Aren’t All That Bad
When Oil Majors Embrace Material Flow Analysis, New Hope for a Sustainable 21st Century Arises
337 Opinions on the Most Resource-Efficient Policy Instruments to Embed Ecodesign
67 Quick-Payoff Measures to Reduce Urban Carbon Emissions
100% Renewables? How Germany’s Energy Transition Is Taking Shape
Holistic Sustainability Measurement: The Composite 3-Pillar-Index
Green Jobs, 80% Renewables in 2020, Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
Eco-economic Decoupling: How to Measure a Sustainable Growth
The Outweighed Efficiency Gain – 13 Rebound Effects in Detail
19 Industry Reports – How Global Compact Promotes Efficiency
Do Universities Practice What They Preach? On Academic Sustainability
31 Innovations for Maximum Resource Efficiency in Manufacturing
4 Pressing Questions on the Ozone Hole Recovery
Burn or Bury? Analyzing Waste Management Options in Detail
5-Fold Increase in Efficiency – Not Delusional at All
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Why Environmental Regulation Is Not Scaring Off Industry – On Declining Evidence for Pollution Haven Theory
Europe’s 10 Most Verbiage-Free Master Programs in Sustainability
Better, Different, Less – Green Economy Revisited
Green Ocean Hunters? The Environmental Effects of Fishing and Aquaculture, Part 2
Green Ocean Hunters? The Environmental Effects of Fishing and Aquaculture
Carbon Neutral Online Shopping – How Green are Mail Order Companies?
LCA, CF, MFCA? What to Expect From Umberto User Workshop Hamburg, Sept 17/18
Why and How the Manufacturing Industry Should Go 100% Renewable Now
What’s the Greenest 1 L Packaging? Two Powerful LCAs Give the Answer
6 Options to Maintain Current Lifestyles with Far Less Raw Materials: “With Both Eyes Open”
Carbon Neutral World Cup? Green Stadiums? Really?
Integrated Reporting: How Business Can Transform Society through Serious Sustainability Communication
Only 16.7% of Global Energy Consumption Is Renewable – Ways for Industry to Increase This Share
More Than Ecosystem Dynamics – Understanding the Different Concepts of Resilience
The 8 Most Specific LinkedIn Groups for Industrial Ecology
A Challenging Task: Promoting Energy Efficiency in Tajikistan
The Five Most Important Changes for Global Sustainability: Living Planet Report 2012
7 Measures for Efficient Climate Control on the Factory Floor
To Harvest Green Business, Feed Eco Incentives to the Decision Makers
Environmentally Harmful Subsidies: Behind the Scenes of a $400 Billion Waste
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Last Chance for a Powerful Shift – On Quarrels About the EU’s Energy Efficiency Directive
The OECD Turns Green – Why Saving the Planet Pays Off
Avoiding the Relocation of Emissions – How to Face Carbon Leakage
Why SMEs Should Foster, Not Fear the Corporate Carbon Footprint
“Everybody Should do Their Share” – The Long Road to Sustainability in Turkey
Post Growth Economy or Resource Efficiency Revolution – How Should We Face the Limits of Our Planet?
What is an Environmental Product Declaration? And What is it Good For?
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The Path to a Green Economy – Lessons From Germany
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Food Footprints: Subjective Consumer Perception vs. Profound LCA Data
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Effectively Managing Greenhouse Gases – Worldwide
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