Objective Environmental affairs are becoming more important also to SMEs due to the requirements from large companies and other customers. To survive in the competition with companies from other parts of the world it is very important for them to be able to produce satisfactory environmental information on their products and production. All participating SMEs have strongly felt a need of presenting such information to their customers to gain competitive advantage. We estimate that 20% of all SMEs in the manufacturing industry in Europe have a need of producing this kind of information. Life cycle assessments (LCA) are useful tools for this purpose. The problem is that LCA is a complicated and time consuming method that requires expert knowledge and is therefore not possible to use for most SMEs. A tool for performing LCAs more easily will be developed. The earlier feasibility study gave an idea of a tool that is simple to use but still can give results of a sufficient quality. A consortium of SMEs with different requirements on the tool, research institutes with experience from LCA and an LCA software developer will guarantee the necessary competence for the project. The project will give results suitable for exploitation: Databases, modules for different materials and processes containing data and interactive script and also a software tool. Fields of science natural sciencescomputer and information sciencessoftwarenatural sciencescomputer and information sciencesdatabases Programme(s) FP4-BRITE/EURAM 3 - Specific research and technological development programme in the field of industrial and materials technologies, 1994-1998 Topic(s) 0204 - Technologies for recovering products at the end of their lifecycle Call for proposal Data not available Funding Scheme CRS - Cooperative research contracts Coordinator Mora Armatur AB Address Östnor 792 27 Mora Sweden See on map EU contribution € 0,00 Participants (9) Sort alphabetically Sort by EU Contribution Expand all Collapse all Busatis GmbH Austria EU contribution € 0,00 Address Busatisstrasse 5 3251 Purgstall See on map FM Mattsson AB Sweden EU contribution € 0,00 Address 792 27 Mora See on map Institute of Technology Assessment and International Cooperation e.V. Austria EU contribution € 0,00 Address Salesianergasse 1 1030 Wien See on map Moll Motor Elektromotoren Reparatur- u. Vertriebs- GmbH. Austria EU contribution € 0,00 Address Industriestrasse 8 2000 Stockerau See on map Müller - Guttenbrunn GmbH Austria EU contribution € 0,00 Address Industriestrasse 12 3300 Amstetten See on map PRE CONSULTANTS BV Netherlands EU contribution € 0,00 Address Plotterweg 12 3821 BB Amersfoort See on map Reumüller Erwin TEWA - ElektromotorenGes mbH Austria EU contribution € 0,00 Address Krätzergasse 6 1230 Wien See on map Swedish Institute of Production Engineering Research Sweden EU contribution € 0,00 Address Argongatan 30 431 53 Mölndal See on map WIKO Elektronische Bauelemente GmbH Germany EU contribution € 0,00 Address Hagenstrasse 12 38486 Klötze See on map
