For everything that goes beyond the PCF
Corporate Carbon Footprint
The CO₂ footprint of your entire company. We collect emissions across all areas — easy to work with. Useful for far more than reporting.
Every product leaves a footprint. We show you where. With a Life Cycle Assessment (LCA).
Confident in responding to customer inquiries – and prepared for the Digital Product Passport (DPP). We provide ISO-compliant data for your communications.
Ideal for companies that want to understand, compare, or document their environmental footprint — for customer projects, tenders, or internal decisions.
What is a Life Cycle Assessment (LCA)?
An LCA shows the environmental impact of a product, process, or site. From raw materials to end-of-life, it reveals where impacts occur — and which stages matter most.
The assessment follows recognised standards (ISO 14040/44) and applies to simple as well as complex products.
The result: a clear overview you can use for internal decisions, customer discussions, or requirements from clients and authorities.
What does a life cycle assessment bring to your business?
Many companies need reliable environmental data – often sooner than they expect.
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Confident in tenders
Large industrial and construction clients increasingly require robust environmental performance data from their suppliers. With an ISO-compliant life cycle assessment, you provide exactly the data requested in tenders and bidding procedures – technically sound, verifiable, and without time-consuming follow-up work. This secures your position in the competitive landscape and allows you to respond calmly to complex requirement catalogues.
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Honest product comparisons for your sales team
Customers and partners want facts rather than vague promises. A life cycle assessment makes the environmental performance of your product transparent, documented, and comparable. We prepare the results in a way that allows you to communicate differences clearly – without technical jargon, but as solid, verifiable arguments for customer projects and sales discussions.
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Strategic advantage with the Digital Product Passport (DPP)
EU regulatory requirements are becoming more stringent: the Digital Product Passport is coming and will make environmental impacts across the entire life cycle mandatory disclosures. With an LCA by natureOffice, you proactively prepare your data foundation today. You are ready when the legal requirements take effect – and position yourself early as a transparent, future-proof company.
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Reliable data for product development
Which materials or process steps truly have the greatest environmental impact? A life cycle assessment identifies the “hotspots” within your value chain. This gives your development and engineering teams the confidence to base material choices and design decisions on actual environmental impact rather than intuition alone.
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Reliable protection against greenwashing risks
Environmental claims are under close scrutiny by authorities and competitors alike. A scientifically sound life cycle assessment in accordance with ISO 14040/44 is your strongest safeguard: it substantiates your green claims and climate-related statements with robust data. This keeps your communication legally secure, credible, and protects your brand from reputational risk.
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Clarity for your internal reduction targets
Where is investment in environmental protection truly worthwhile? A life cycle assessment shows precisely where measures achieve the greatest impact – and where effort remains just effort. This helps you set internal priorities effectively and invest resources where they genuinely reduce your company’s environmental footprint.
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How we create your Life Cycle Assessment (LCA)
A clear process that requires little preparation and does not place unnecessary strain on your day-to-day business. We work with the data you already have – and only add what is truly necessary to ensure robust, reliable results.
Defining objectives and accounting clarifications precisely
First, we jointly define the focus of your assessment: Is the analysis intended for a specific product, an entire production process, or a site? We set the appropriate system boundary – whether cradle-to-gate (from raw material extraction to the factory gate) or cradle-to-grave (including use and end-of-life). This ensures from the outset that only the data relevant to your objective – such as a tender or the Digital Product Passport – is collected.
Compiling relevant data – without data overload
You do not need to be a data expert to get started with us. We review your existing information on materials, energy consumption, transport routes, and processing steps. Where primary data is unavailable or suppliers are unable to provide information, we rely on recognised background databases (such as ecoinvent). Data gaps are closed transparently using validated factors or scientific estimates, ensuring that your life cycle assessment remains reliable and audit-ready.
Calculating and documenting environmental impacts
Based on the collected data, we perform the assessment in accordance with the internationally recognised standards ISO 14040 and ISO 14044. In addition to the carbon footprint, we evaluate other relevant environmental impact categories such as resource use, acidification, and energy demand. Every calculation step is fully documented, ensuring traceability at all times and compliance with the requirements of external auditors and clients.
Understanding and applying results immediately
You receive more than a set of figures – you receive a life cycle assessment that works for you. We explain the results clearly and put them into context so that you can use them immediately for customer inquiries, product comparisons, or strategic decision-making. We highlight where the main environmental impacts occur (hotspots) and identify which aspects will be particularly relevant for future communication or upcoming EU regulatory requirements.
What Your Life Cycle Assessment Really Delivers
The numbers your customers, tenders and product comparisons are asking for.
Clear environmental indicators
You see where environmental impacts occur — in materials, energy use, transport or processing. A Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) makes these points comparable and highlights what truly matters.
Documentation you can pass on
All steps, data sources and assumptions are documented in line with ISO 14040/44. Ideal for customers, auditors, product comparisons or tenders — without extra work.
Ready to use for offers & enquiries
Many clients now expect environmental data or an LCA. With your LCA report, you have the required values ready to submit — from cradle-to-gate or cradle-to-grave.
A basis for better decisions
The LCA shows which materials or process steps carry the most weight. This helps teams plan development, procurement or improvements based on facts — not assumptions.
Why we’re a good match
A life cycle assessment should create clarity – not new problems. We work in a way that helps small and medium-sized companies get reliable numbers quickly, without slowing down their daily business.
→ We start with what you already have
Many SMEs don’t have complete environmental or process data. That’s normal. We review what’s available and add only what is truly necessary for a solid LCA. No perfectionism. Just relevance.
→ We keep the process manageable
Materials, energy, transport, processing – that’s our focus. We avoid complexity that adds no value and keep the effort for your team as low as possible.
→ We make environmental impacts easy to understand
Management, engineering, procurement – everyone should be able to see where impacts occur and why. No models that require specialist knowledge. Just clear, practical insights.
→ We deliver results you can use immediately
Tender? Product comparison? DPP? Customer project? Your LCA comes fully documented and ready to submit or share internally – with no extra work required.
→ We understand the reality of SMEs
Limited time, scattered data, suppliers who don’t respond. We’ve worked with these conditions for many years and find solutions that remain ISO-compliant – and still realistic.
→ We always keep your next step in mind
An LCA doesn’t end with the report. It shows where optimisation is worthwhile, which materials matter most, and where actions actually have an effect. That way, the LCA becomes a tool – not a checkbox exercise.
Some of our references:
EICHHOLTZ GmbH | eick werbeartikel GmbH & Co. KG | eins energie in sachsen GmbH | Elco AG | Ellerhold AG | EMB Energie Brandenburg GmbH | Energieservice Westfalen Weser GmbH | Exaktapack Deutschland GmbH | fairafric AG | Fattoria Ispoli | fiatec Filter & Aerosol Technologie GmbH | filmpool entertainment GmbH | FILTRAL GmbH & Co. Vertriebs KG | Flexyfit Plus GmbH | FORUM Institut für Management GmbH | FOUR PARX GmbH | Frank Druck + Medien GmbH & Co. KG | Frankenbach Automobil Logistik GmbH | Fuchs & Hoffmann GmbH | Funktel GmbH | Fürst Fugger Privatbank Aktiengesellschaft | garmo AG (GAZI) | GASAG AG | Gebrüder Weiss AG |
GEUER International GmbH | G. Honsel Aluminiumbearbeitung GmbH | Global Climate Changer GmbH | Good Hood GmbH | GRIESHABER FEINMECHANIK GMBH & CO. KG | hansadruck und Verlags-GmbH | H.D. Cotterell GmbH & Co. KG | HDI Service AG | Helmchen Event + Location e.V. | Henkel AG & Co. KGaA | Heraeus Medical Components | Hevert-Arzneimittel GmbH & Co. KG | HH Print Management Deutschland GmbH | Hirschalm GmbH | HM Scherer GmbH Druck & Kommunikation | HOFA GmbH | Holle baby food AG...
Frequently Asked Questions about Life Cycle Assessment (LCA)
What small and medium-sized companies want to know before they get started.
It shows where environmental impacts really occur — in materials, energy use, transport or processing.
This gives you the figures that customers, tenders and the Digital Product Passport increasingly require.In most cases, a few basic data points are enough:
material quantities, energy consumption, transport routes and processing steps.
Missing information can be estimated transparently and in line with ISO requirements.It depends on how complex the product or process is.
For many SMEs, an LCA is simpler and more affordable than expected — especially for cradle-to-gate assessments. What matters is a result you can actually use, not unnecessary complexity.Yes.
An ISO-compliant LCA provides the environmental indicators that are now required everywhere: in bids, product comparisons, retailer portals or for environmental claims.That’s common.
We start with what you already have and add only what is necessary — using verified factors or transparent estimates.A PCF shows only CO₂.
An LCA shows all relevant environmental impacts.
Many SMEs start with a PCF and expand to an LCA later when customers or tenders require it.For many product groups: yes.
The DPP requires environmental and CO₂ data across the full life cycle. An LCA provides exactly these values — which is why it makes sense to prepare now.
Holistic Life Cycle Assessment (LCA):
Optimizing the Entire Product Lifecycle
A sound Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) goes far beyond simple carbon footprinting. At natureOffice, we analyze your products according to the internationally recognized standards ISO 14040 and ISO 14044. We examine the entire lifecycle—from raw material extraction (cradle-to-gate) to disposal or recycling (cradle-to-grave). We identify not only greenhouse gas emissions but also environmental impacts such as eutrophication, acidification, and resource depletion to create genuine environmental transparency.
This holistic approach is the essential foundation for eco-design and the requirements of the new ESPR (Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation). Our LCA results provide the necessary data for the upcoming Digital Product Passport (DPP) and help you identify real levers for the circular economy. With a professional Life Cycle Assessment from natureOffice, you not only secure a competitive advantage with eco-conscious customers but also establish a reliable factual basis for sustainable product development and future regulatory demands.