Do you want to take a close look at the environmental impact of your portfolio? Together, we will prepare a life cycle assessment (LCA) of your products. The LCA shows you the potential for a more eco-efficient product from various aspects (e.g. waste generated, energy consumed, raw materials used, packaging). This analysis helps you take informed decision on sustainable product development – an important aspect for many of your customers, too.
Sustainability Services
KRAHN Chemie offers its customers services and advice on the subject of sustainability. From enhancing the sustainability of your products, to facilitating your organization’s transition: We have all the competencies to support you along this journey. Specifically for this purpose, we have designed three offers:
We support your sustainability transition.
Life Cycle Assessment
What is a Life Cycle Assessment?
Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) is a methodology to assess the environmental impact of a product throughout its life cycle: from raw material extraction to disposal. This helps to identify areas that can reduce the environmental impact of the product to make it more sustainable, for example, by using alternative raw or recycled materials or renewable energy in manufacturing. Opportunities for cost savings may also become apparent, for example, by reducing waste, or by establishing more efficient production processes.
What is the difference between Life Cycle Assessment, Product Carbon Footprint, and Environmental Product Declarations?
As LCA is a calculation methodology covering multiple subjects, there are multiple types of LCAs possible. For example, you can calculate impact of your product from cradle-to-grave, cradle-to-gate, or gate-to-gate. Alternatively, you can focus on one impact category, only calculating the CO2 emissions over the lifecycle of your product (called Product Carbon Footprint; PCF). Which LCA type you need, and what the rules are, is difficult to determine. KRAHN can help you with this.
What is the Quick Scan LCA
KRAHN is offering its customers an affordable way to get an insight into the footprint of a product with its “KRAHN Quick Scan LCA”. Our expert team will conduct a Quick Scan LCA for one of your products.
Our Quick Scan LCA isn’t just a report; it’s the beginning of a journey toward a more sustainable business. Whenever possible, we’ll provide suggestions to help you implement changes that will support you in reducing your product’s impact.
- Goal and Scope: Most products’ impact is associated with their raw material use. Our Quick Scan creates insight into this impact by analyzing the effects of your raw materials on the environment.
- Environmental Impact Evaluation: Using advanced software and LCA databases, we calculate the environmental impacts in categories such as global warming potential (CO2 footprint), resource depletion, and water usage.
- Reporting: You will receive a compact report in 10 working days after delivering the necessary data to KRAHN, detailing the findings of the Quick Scan LCA, and opportunities for improvement.
Our Quick Scan LCA isn’t just a report; it’s the beginning of a journey toward a more sustainable business. Whenever possible, we’ll provide suggestions to help you implement changes that will support you in reducing your product’s impact.
What are the uses of a Life Cycle Assessment?
Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) allows you to understand & improve your products’ environmental impact, as well as communicate transparently about the impact of your products – to customers, business partners and other stakeholders. As such, LCA is a versatile tool that can be used for a number of reasons:
- Eco-design: LCA supports you in internal knowledge and decision making. By learning where your environmental impact comes from (raw materials, production, waste, …), you can then effectively reduce this impact and optimize your processes.
- Meeting regulatory requirements: LCA helps you deal with environmental policy regulations and requirements, including the EU Green Deal. Doing LCA will enable to set the appropriate course at an early stage.
- Communication: The assessment lets you communicate correctly & transparently about your products environmental impact (both B2B and B2C context), according to (new) regulations. For example, through third-party verified LCA and EPD reports, complying with ISO14040/14044, ISO14025, and optionally following the Product Environmental Footprint (PEF) principles.
How is a Life Cycle Assessment conducted?
The LCA experts at KRAHN Chemie guide you through the entire process of creating a life cycle assessment for your products. Together, we map inputs and outputs of a product and based on this analysis, KRAHN Chemie is finally creating a LCA report. If you would like to use the report for your external communication, we support in having the LCA validated by a third party. You can also use the LCA report for the development of an Environmental Product Declaration.
Why KRAHN Chemie?
We are your trusted partner, offering technical and application expertise to support your goals. Expanding this support to include new dimensions – such as sustainability – is a natural next step for us.
With us you will receive:
- PCF reports according to ISO 14067 & GHG Protocol
- LCA reports according to ISO 14040/44
- Development of EPDs according to ISO 14025
- Data transparency
- Exclusive data access
- Post-project support
- Potential optimization recommendations
- Provide/find raw materials that improve the LCA results
Sustainability Workshops
Sustainability, circular economy, product responsibility, climate change – buzzwords like these are on everyone's lips and dominate the media. That is right and important, because they represent the central challenges of our time. But are we really always aware of the concrete requirements. Whether technical, legal or organizational – that arise for our companies?
In a one-day KRAHN Chemie sustainability workshop, we would like to sensitize you to these requirements: Individually adapted to your and your customers’ needs, we create a podium for you and your colleagues to identify the opportunities and potential threats that the various sustainability topics could entail for your company.
In a one-day KRAHN Chemie sustainability workshop, we would like to sensitize you to these requirements: Individually adapted to your and your customers’ needs, we create a podium for you and your colleagues to identify the opportunities and potential threats that the various sustainability topics could entail for your company.
What exactly is a sustainability workshop?
KRAHN Chemie offers you a one-day introductory workshop with the aim of providing basic knowledge about sustainability and raising awareness for the relevance of the topic in your teams – for an even greater sustainability commitment in your organization. In terms of content, we cover everything from explaining technical terminology to brainstorming. The workshop equips your teams with the necessary knowledge and tools to successfully meet current and future challenges.
What are the benefits of a sustainability workshop?
The sustainability workshop is an ideal opportunity and starting point to put the topic prominently on your company's agenda. Inspire your colleagues to integrate sustainability into all work processes. Current information, for example, on market trends and relevant regulations, will provide your team with the facts that help you to assess the opportunities and potential threats for your organization. This enables you to make the best possible use of the changing market environment for your company.
What content is on the agenda?
The spectrum is broad: from the Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations to the impact of the EU Green Deal on companies, the Sustainable Chemicals Directive, and national as well as industry-specific regulatory developments. The following questions will also be in focus: How do new sustainability trends influence future market requirements? How does sustainability affect product development and processes? How can you benefit from a Life Cycle Assessment? We would be pleased to customize the content for your individual needs!
Why KRAHN Chemie?
As a supporting partner, we have been offering workshops for many years in which we impart our technical and application know-how to you. We are continuously expanding this service and are of course offering you our knowledge in many areas – as here related to sustainability.
With us you will receive:
With us you will receive:
- Deep knowledge of the topics, accompanied with technical literacy, which enables KRAHN Chemie to provide you with in-depth information customized to your needs
- As a stakeholder close to both the producer and the customer, KRAHN Chemie is able to bring together valuable market intelligence and share it with our trusted partners
- We did the sustainability training for ourselves and conducted it successfully with all our employees. We believe in partnerships across the supply chain, which form strong bonds and enable an aligned approach towards the future challenges
Recycling
In the chemical industry, suppliers and producers deal with complex products. This brings a lot of great opportunities but also challenges. One of them is the recycling of production waste, much of which is still incinerated or landfilled. At KRAHN Chemie, we specialize in transforming your hard-to-recycle production residues into reusable materials. By combining deep product knowledge and sustainability expertise with technical know-how, we develop tailored solutions that unlock both environmental and economic value for your business. Together we achieve a more sustainable industry and contribute to a circular economy.
What are the benefits of recycling?
Recycling has great environmental advantages, but can also help your business in terms of efficiency and cost savings:
- Resource conservation: Recycling reduces the need for raw materials extraction, conserving natural resources and minimizing environmental impact associated with mining and processing – while also helping businesses mitigate supply chain risks and reduce material costs.
- Energy savings: Recycling often requires less energy than producing new materials from scratch, contributing to lower greenhouse gas emissions, lower overall energy consumption leading to reduced energy costs.
- Waste reduction: Proper recycling decreases the volume of waste sent to landfills or incinerators, cutting disposal costs, supporting sustainable waste management practices and reducing environmental pollution.
What can we support you with?
For preventing your waste getting burned or incinerated, we find – or even develop the right recycling technology – tailored to your needs. Depending on your goals, we can offer an open- or closed-loop approach. In a closed-loop system, your materials are recycled and reintegrated into your production processes. In an open-loop system, recycled materials are processed to be sold to other manufacturers, creating value beyond your operations
What does the process look like?
Our process is designed to get the most out of your production waste:
- We analyze and map your waste streams based on volume, type, composition and other key characteristics to identify the most efficient recycling solutions.
- We do a proof of concept of recycling in our in-house laboratories to determine the most effective techniques for your specific waste stream.
- We take care of finding the right partners for you to scale up your recycling process.
- We conduct an economic and environmental evaluation of the recycled product to ensure it is cost-competitive with virgin materials and offers a lower environmental impact.
Why KRAHN Chemie?
We offer:
- A combination of technical expertise and sustainability know-how to deliver smart solutions.
- The infrastructure and experience across multiple industries with our fully equipped laboratories in Germany, Poland, Italy and Sweden, the strength of the Otto Krahn Group and our various partnerships with suppliers and customers.
- A deep understanding of complex products to turn your recycling challenges into real opportunities.
- Sustainability expertise for assessing whether recycled alternatives truly offer environmental and economic benefits over traditional raw materials.
Sustainability Services
Are you interested in our sustainability services? We are looking forward to your call or e-mail. Get in touch with us.
