TAGS: Sustainability / Natural Adhesives
Henkel Adhesive Technologies worked with Henkel's digital department and Capgemini to create a new digital tool. This tool helps customers understand how sustainable and effective Henkel's products are. It gives a detailed profile of each product's sustainability and performance.
Automatic Calculation of Carbon Footprint
This novel measurement platform – the ‘Henkel Environmental Assessment Reporting Tool’ (HEART) –enables the automatic calculation of the product carbon footprint of about 58,000 products.
The tool maps the cradle-to-gate emissions including the emissions of raw materials, production, packaging, and logistics. This calculation methodology has been thoroughly verified and certified by TÜV Rheinland (ID-Nr. 0000086028: Henkel AG & Co. KGaA – Certipedia).
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Our certified calculation methodology combines high-quality data with a novel digital measurement platform and enables us to quickly provide comprehensive PCF reports across a significant and continuously increasing percentage of our products,” explained Ulla Hüppe, vice president sustainability at Henkel Adhesive Technologies.
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Our customers now receive full transparency on the individual cradle-to-gate sustainability impact of the vast majority of our portfolio which is essential for them to better understand the impact of their products and to further reduce their emissions. The novel HEART tool not only marks another important milestone towards our promise to deliver 100 percent end-to-end transparency on all our products by 2030. It also helps us to analyze and steer our portfolio based on data-driven results and to further expand our low emission products portfolio in the future,” added Hüppe.
Pioneer and Collaborate in Transparency
Henkel is participating in different industrial sustainability initiatives to pioneer and collaborate in transparency for end-to-end product life cycle analysis and PCF reporting. The company is a member of ‘Together for Sustainability’, an initiative that supports and coordinates the measurement of the sustainability performance of chemical companies and their suppliers.
Henkel also has joined Catena-X, a pan-European network that aims to standardize the methodology for calculating footprints and the associated data exchange for all participants in the automotive value chain.
Source: Henkel