The product carbon footprint (PCF) already plays a key role for manufacturing companies in defining and achieving their own sustainability goals. In the future, legal regulations at European level will place additional requirements on the sustainability of products. LAPP has therefore taken a far-sighted approach and started to determine the PCF of its own products. The first LAPP product for which the Product Carbon Footprint (PCF) was calculated is the ÖLFLEX® CLASSIC 110 control and connection cable. All results have been verified externally by DEKRA.
All CO₂ emissions are taken into account according to the “cradle-to-gate” approach, i.e. all data from raw material extraction to production, including storage and packaging, until the product leaves the LAPP logistics centre. It is particularly challenging to ensure high data quality and data availability via suppliers or – if there are no reliable values – via secondary data from CO₂ databases.
