Life Cycle Analysis – Life-Cycle Assessment (LCA)

Benefits of Life Cycle Analysis (LCA) to Companies

Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) analyses the environmental effects of products, starting from raw material procurement, production, transportation, use and end-of-life disposal processes, and offers companies roadmaps that provide opportunities for efficiency and reduction of environmental impacts in all these processes. Using Lifecycle Management techniques offers many benefits to your company, from managing risks to gaining new business opportunities. While the Lifecycle Approach provides companies with a good global perspective, Lifecycle Analysis is essential to drive meaningful results and drive real change.

The benefits of analysis can be divided into three main areas: Business Performance, Supply Chain and Brand Perception.

Benefits to Business Performance:

• Reduced costs: Life cycle analysis identifies inefficient areas, potentially resulting in “reduction in energy and material use”.
• Customer gains: When LCA results are shared transparently with customers, it ensures that products are preferred, and the company’s “competitive power” increases.
• Benchmark: The way to reduce the environmental impact of a product starts with determining how much its current environmental impact is
• Internal compliance: The objective approach of the LCA report (the “impartiality it provides”) means better prioritization of different departments throughout the company and more common goals to be reached by all departments. provides precise detection.

Benefits to the Supply Chain:

• Risk management: With the help of LCA, “risks” in the supply chain are identified and “high cost” processes are prevented.
• High impact areas: Allows identification of ‘hot spot’ areas with significant environmental impact throughout the product lifecycle.
• Negotiation power: Companies that are “transparent” in their supply chains discuss their procurement decisions openly, both internally and with suppliers.
• Future changes: Different scenarios obtained in the product life cycle modelling enable the development of new products.

Benefits for Development of Brand Perception:

• Regulatory readiness: The LCA provides estimates of the impact of new regulations and the costs that regulations may incur on companies.
• Brand reputation: The company demonstrates its corporate responsibility and commitment to a sustainable future by making LCA reporting.
• Reliability: The LCA report is a report created in line with “international standards” that makes it known to its stakeholders that a product has undergone independent analysis to verify its sustainability.
• Marketing: The Environmental Product Declaration (EPD) containing the important results of the LCA report, provides users with easy access to information on the environmental impact of the product.