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Product & Supply Chain Sustainability with LCA

Build one LCA model and reuse it across your entire product range.

Real supplier data, modelled to ISO 14040/14044, independently reviewed, and maintained in XYCLE, so it grows with you.

We will use the session to match you with the analyst who would run your project.

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Minviro is trusted by

Minviro is trusted by

Minviro is trusted by

Minviro is trusted by

90%

reduction in CO₂ emissions

For Vianode's synthetic graphite anode versus conventional production

Together with Minviro, we’ve modelled an LCA with high credibility, which allows us to present the LCA to our business partners with comfort. In addition, it forms a solid basis for many of our sustainability targets, and thus has created value beyond compliance.

Together with Minviro, we’ve modelled an LCA with high credibility, which allows us to present the LCA to our business partners with comfort. In addition, it forms a solid basis for many of our sustainability targets, and thus has created value beyond compliance.

Andreas Forfang, Vice President Sustainability & Public Affairs at Vianode

Product Sustainability

What life cycle assessment does for product and supply chain sustainability

An LCA measures a product's environmental impact across its whole value chain, from raw materials to end of life, and turns it into decisions you can act on and defend.

Anna Broughton

Strategic Accounts Manager at Minviro

Win procurement with a product carbon footprint buyers trust

Major buyers now weight a verified product carbon footprint in procurement and supplier selection, driven by rules like the EU Battery Regulation. It keeps you on the supplier list.

Find the hidden carbon hotspots upstream with supply chain LCA

Most of a product's impact is locked in at the design stage. Supply chain LCA and hotspot analysis show where reduction effort moves both carbon and cost.

Stand behind your footprint when it's challenged or questioned

An ISO 14040/14044 footprint with independent critical review holds up when a regulator, OEM or NGO scrutinises it, and any public comparative assertion requires it.

WHY IT'S DIFFERENT

The system of record for your product carbon footprint

Carbon reporting ends as a number in a PDF. A life cycle assessment built in XYCLE is a system your team can defend, update and reuse.

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Strengthen your data quality as estimates become solid

Strengthen your data quality as estimates become solid

Every input in your model is reconciled and source-labelled, whether it starts with primary supplier data, database baselines or prospective models.

Every input in your model is reconciled and source-labelled, whether it starts with primary supplier data, database baselines or prospective models.

Every input in your model is reconciled and source-labelled, whether it starts with primary supplier data, database baselines or prospective models.

Every input source-labelled in XYCLE

Data quality scored to EF 3.1 (DQR)

Full audit trail from result to raw input

How we collect and model your data

How we collect and model your data

Match your life cycle assessment to your business needs and requirements

Match your life cycle assessment to your business needs and requirements

Modelled by geologists, engineers, LCA practitioners, and environmental scientists to ISO 14040/14044, with EF 3.1, ISO 14067 or regulations applied as your output requires, built on your data and supported by independent critical review.

Modelled by geologists, engineers, LCA practitioners, and environmental scientists to ISO 14040/14044, with EF 3.1, ISO 14067 or regulations applied as your output requires, built on your data and supported by independent critical review.

ISO 14040/14044, EF 3.1, ISO 14067

Independent critical review per ISO/TS 14071

Models existing operations and prospective routes

Our methodology

Our methodology

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Keep your environmental footprints current across your entire product portfolio

Keep your environmental footprints current across your portfolio

When a supplier or regulation changes, your footprint recalculates in XYCLE from the model you already built, and Minviro's specialists keep the methodology audit-ready as it updates.

When a supplier or regulation changes, your footprint recalculates in XYCLE from the model you already built, and Minviro's specialists keep the methodology audit-ready as it updates.

When a supplier or regulation changes, your footprint recalculates in XYCLE from the model you already built, and Minviro's specialists keep the methodology audit-ready as it updates.

Supplier and regulation changes recalculate automatically

New outputs from the model you already built

Methodology kept audit-ready as it evolves

See how models stay live

See how models stay live

FROM MINVIRO'S RESEARCH

How production route, energy mix, and supply chain data change your carbon footprint result

Most companies are working from data that flattens what makes them different. Industry averages can't show that your refinery runs on renewables, that your processing route is cleaner than your competitors', or that one supplier switch would cut your footprint by a third. Those are the things that win procurement decisions and hold up under audit. They only appear when the model is built on your actual supply chain.

Explore our resources

Explore our resources

10×

variation in carbon intensity across graphite production routes. Same material, different geography and processing method.

Minviro on Graphite Production (2021)

70%

lower carbon footprint for Twin Metals Minnesota copper versus the global average. The difference was renewable energy at the refinery, not the mine.

Minviro for Twin Metals Minnesota (2023)

6x

6x

CO₂ reduction opportunity found in a Deutsche Bahn train-seat supply chain, identified and costed within 100 days.

CO₂ reduction opportunity found in a Deutsche Bahn train-seat supply chain, identified and costed within 100 days.

Minviro for Deutsche Bahn (2025)

35%

lower climate impact for recycled rare earth magnets versus primary extraction, rising to 65% with process optimisation.

Minviro for Apple (2025)

DELIVERABLES

What can an LCA engagement for product & supply chain sustainability with Minviro include?

For the teams measuring impact, responding to data requests, making sourcing decisions, and proving differentiation.

ISO-compliant Life Cycle Assessment (14040/44)

The foundational asset. Every other output below is generated from this one model, so you build it once and reuse it for every framework and customer request that follows.

A full life cycle model quantifying 16+ impact categories, from climate to resource depletion, across value chains.

Product Carbon Footprint
(ISO 14067)

The exact number your customer’s RFP is asking for, whether it’s driven by the regulation, a CBAM declaration, or another disclosure requirement, traceable to source data so it holds when a buyer or auditor pushes back.

A single, verified kg CO₂e-per-unit number with full contribution analysis showing where the emissions sit.

Supply chain mapping & hotspot analysis

Tells you exactly where to spend your reduction budget and your supplier-engagement effort, the 3 stages that drive 80% of impact, instead of chasing all of them.

A visual map of your value chain with each stage ranked by environmental contribution and data quality.

Comparison studies

Settles "is option A actually greener than B?" with defensible evidence, before you commit capital or make a public claim you'd have to defend.

Side-by-side LCA of two or more options, materials, routes, suppliers or designs.

Scenario & sensitivity analysis

Shows which levers move your number and which are noise, and how robust your footprint is to the assumptions underneath it.

Modelled futures, grid decarbonisation, supplier switches. The sensitivity quantified to each assumption.

Verification & Third Party Audits

The difference between a number you believe and a number a regulator, customer or NGO will accept. Required for public comparative assertions.

Independent third-party review to ISO 14071, the review statement that must accompany any externally communicated comparative LCA.

Case studies

Work we have delivered

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Anaphite

Case study

70%

reduction in NMC811 cell production emissions vs conventional wet coating (3.57 kg CO₂e per kWh saved)

Battery & Energy Storage

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Deutsche Bahn

Case study

6x

lower carbon footprint achievable on second-class ICE train seats through supply chain changes alone

Transport & Logistics

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Huawei

Case study

100 days

to deliver a secure, EU-ready carbon footprint baseline across Huawei's full BESS supply chain

Battery & Energy Storage

Electronics

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Blogs

Relevant resources

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Supplier Data Collection Guide for LCA

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Indonesia's Steelmaking Carbon Footprint: The Case for Low-Carbon Steel

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The Sustainability of Nickel Mining in ASEAN: Supply, Depletion and Carbon Footprint

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SOLUTION

Not sure which regulations and deadlines apply to your products?

You tell us what you make and where you sell it; within two business days you get a one-page obligations map: which regulations apply, when each bites, and who internally should own it.