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Are you ready for Brexit? Check your Brexit-Readiness

On March 29th 2017, the United Kingdom notified the European Council of its intention to withdraw from the European Union, thereby triggering a negotiating process to establish a Withdrawal Agreement within a...

Trends & Technology

Blockchain for Circular Supply Chain

Blockchain technology enables us to digitize and streamline the supply chain workflows to improve efficiency, reduce costs and improve management of resources, compliance and risks. What are the current Supply...

Maroye Marinkovic & Gunther Walden

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Together, we bring fw: sustainability

At iPoint, we bring fw: sustainability and places it at the forefront of everything that we do. Digital pathfinders. How to pave the way for a successful and sustainable future? How to secure future...

The new California Proposition 65 Warning Regulations

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The new California Proposition 65 Warning Regulations

The California Proposition 65 is a California Law that came into effect in 1986. Its goal is to protect residents of California from exposition to chemicals causing cancer or being toxic to reproduction. The...

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Holcim Werk Lägerdorf

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Sankey Skyscraping – Visualizing the huge energy demand in cement production

On a global scale, which product is produced the most in weight per year – steel, cement, plastic or paper? Would you have known the answer to this 1-million-euro question in a popular German TV-Show? While the...

bioplastic

Trends & Technology

Smart Microorganisms at Work: Turning Waste into Bioplastic

How a waste product like pentose wood sugars is transformed into bioplastic and can be used as a new resource for plastic coatings and packaging. So called 1st generation biofuels are based on materials such as corn...

Trends & Technology

Blockchain for Circular Supply Chain

Blockchain technology enables us to digitize and streamline the supply chain workflows to improve efficiency, reduce costs and improve management of resources, compliance and risks. What are the current Supply Chain...

Challenges

Are you ready for Brexit? Check your Brexit-Readiness

On March 29th 2017, the United Kingdom notified the European Council of its intention to withdraw from the European Union, thereby triggering a negotiating process to establish a Withdrawal Agreement within a two-year...

Challenges

Together, we bring fw: sustainability

At iPoint, we bring fw: sustainability and places it at the forefront of everything that we do. Digital pathfinders. How to pave the way for a successful and sustainable future? How to secure future generations a world...

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New standard ISO 50001 for energy management places increased demands on companies

Recertification of an energy management system according to ISO 50001 has become more demanding – or why a requirement in the accreditation standard ISO 50003 consistently demands transparency of energy...

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Lids against Polio

Poliomyelitis, more commonly referred to as polio, is an illness that has been almost completely eradicated with there being only a few known cases in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Nigeria. The virus causes signs of...

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fw: sustainability 2019 – Save the date!

Under the slogan: “Latest Trends in Product Compliance and Sustainability – Integration as a Key to the Circular Economy” an international audience from companies like Bosch, Jaguar Land Rover, Oracle, Mahle, Preh...

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Life Cycle Impact Assessment – which are the LCIA indicator sets most widely used by practitioners?

Whenever someone starts his or her first LCA study, one of the questions to be answered is, which of the available LCIA methods should be used? There is no distinct answer to the “should” but according to a survey...

ebook - Preventing Worldwide Human Rights Abuses

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Human Trafficking and Modern Slavery – how to mitigate financial and reputational risk

According the latest Global Slavery Index (GSI), released in July 2018, it can be estimated that were 40.3 million victims of modern slavery and human trafficking worldwide and of these 24.9 million were in forced labor...

The new California Proposition 65 Warning Regulations

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The new California Proposition 65 Warning Regulations

The California Proposition 65 is a California Law that came into effect in 1986. Its goal is to protect residents of California from exposition to chemicals causing cancer or being toxic to reproduction. The law obliges...

What are Sankey diagrams?

Products & Solutions

A Sankey Diagram Says More Than 1.000 Pie Charts

What are Sankey diagrams? Engineers and environmental scientists will be able to answer this question: Sankey diagrams visualize mass or energy flows with arrows whos magnitude correspond to the quantity of the flow...

The top 2018 challenges companies are facing concerning sustainability and compliance.

Trends & Technology

Sustainability and Compliance – what keeps companies busy in 2018

In the beginning of the year iPoint started to conduct the Sustainability and Compliance Trends Survey 2018. As a result, over 350 participants already gave information on the top challenges they are facing in their...

Find a way through the jungle of obligations to produce and market compliant products

Products & Solutions

Facing the regulatory challenges of the aftermarket – New iCare Working Group launched

OEMs and their suppliers are facing multiple regulatory challenges when it comes to the so called aftermarket. Spare parts including services have to be provided for a certain time period; various accessories, parts...