A Tool for Integrated Information on Environment for Industrial pro cesses and materials

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 sciences › computer and information sciences › software
• natural sciences › computer and information sciences › databases

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

Participants (9)

Busatis GmbH

Austria

Address

Busatisstrasse 5
3251 Purgstall

FM Mattsson AB

Sweden

Address

792 27 Mora

Institute of Technology Assessment and International Cooperation e.V.

Austria

Address

Salesianergasse 1
1030 Wien

Moll Motor Elektromotoren Reparatur- u. Vertriebs- GmbH.

Austria

Address

Industriestrasse 8
2000 Stockerau

Müller - Guttenbrunn GmbH

Austria

Address

Industriestrasse 12
3300 Amstetten

PRE CONSULTANTS BV

Netherlands

Address

Plotterweg 12
3821 BB Amersfoort

Reumüller Erwin TEWA - ElektromotorenGes mbH

Austria

Address

Krätzergasse 6
1230 Wien

Swedish Institute of Production Engineering Research

Sweden

Address

Argongatan 30
431 53 Mölndal

WIKO Elektronische Bauelemente GmbH

Germany

Address

Hagenstrasse 12
38486 Klötze