LIFE CYCLE ASSESSMENT
In today’s world, we must understand our clients’ goals and create sustainable product solutions to meet their needs. In practical terms, we achieve this by taking a product life cycle approach to identify opportunities for sustainable market-driven innovations. We have conducted cradle-to-gate life cycle assessments (LCA) on key product lines to improve our understanding of our products’ environmental impacts, such as greenhouse gas emissions.
Our LCA’s allow us to make informed decisions and identify if optimizing the production process or raw materials could improve the product’s environmental footprint. LCA’s are essential to foster closer engagement with suppliers, supply chain partners, and customers around their products and move towards improved sustainability in the value chain and society overall.
Future innovation processes may benefit from this information by helping us spot chances to increase overall product sustainability in ways like:
- Switching to a different raw material
- Introducing a manufacturing process change
- Altering a specific transportation method/route
- Recapturing and selling a byproduct
With the help of LCA, we can provide our customers with items that have a smaller negative impacts on the environment. LCA opens doors for closer cooperation with suppliers, supply chain partners, and customers.
Life Cycle Case Study: Interface, Inc.
Interface, Inc., the world’s largest manufacturer of modular carpet, worked with Kraton to develop a bio-based carpet tile backing. Learn how Kraton worked with Interface to evaluate the long-term impacts of the product to ensure low environmental impact.