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Together, we bring fw: transparency

At iPoint, we bring fw: transparency 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...

Products & Solutions

A Compliance Survey Tool that Grows with Your Supply Chain

In November 2018, iPoint launched a new compliance survey app for the SustainHub platform as a perfect addition to the existing apps Material Compliance (MC), Conflict Minerals (CM), and Product Chem Risk...

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...

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Trends & Technology

Achieving transparency starts with digitalization – How blockchain can deliver social, economic and environmental benefits

It is hard to argue that industrialism didn’t improve the world. Without industrial-scale production, affordable food, clothing, medicine, transportation and communication we take for granted wouldn’t be possible...

News & Updates

Discrepancy of RoHS and REACH – Compliance Changes 2019

ROHS Directive starts to restrict the Phthalates listed in ROHS Annex II. But with regard to REACH Annex XIV sunset date (21/02/2015) there is a discrepancy. Nevertheless, iPoint Compliance Agent enables customers to...

Construction Material Recycling

News & Updates

Exploring efficiency potentials in the recycling industry

Earlier this year, a team of consultants from ifu Hamburg, Member of iPoint Group, held an initial workshop at MinERALiX, a business specialized in the recycling of construction materials. The goal was to help the...

Lithium Ion Batteries (LIB)

Trends & Technology

German Battery Forum 2019: a round-up of congress highlights

Andreas Genest from ifu Hamburg, Member of iPoint Group, attended the BatterieForum Deutschland 2019 (German Battery Forum) conference, which took place in Berlin from January, 23 to 25. The 3-day event brought together...

C&C Bark Production

News & Updates

Remarkable MFCA results in a German foundry

The German family business C&C Bark Metalldruckguss und Formenbau GmbH produces magnesium die casts for various purposes. With the help of ifu Hamburg GmbH, Member of iPoint Group, they used material flow cost...

Products & Solutions

iPoint’s systems always stay up to date with new SVHC entries

On January 15, 2019, the European Chemical Agency (ECHA) has published 6 new entries to the candidate list of Substances of Very High Concern (SVHC). iPoint’s systems immediately react to every new entry to the SVCH...

MFCA Costs of Losses

News & Updates

MFCA Hamburg – Resource Efficiency Flagships

How will we make Hamburg’s industry more efficient and sustainable? To answer this question, the “MFCA-Hamburg” project was launched as a cooperation between ifu Hamburg, the Hamburg Environmental...

Trends & Technology

How to bring transparency into the supply chain

More and more people are consuming more consciously and want to know where a product they buy comes from and under what conditions it is manufactured. At the same time, media pressure on companies to bring transparency...

UK REACH

News & Updates

Will there be a UK REACH?

What will be the challenges Brexit will have to your business on the products and services that you supply? Will there be a UK REACH for the regulation of chemicals on the UK market? The United Kingdom is due to leave...

Challenges

The Sustainability & Compliance Trends Survey 2019

The overwhelming response on our Sustainability & Compliance Trends Survey 2018 encouraged us to continue our research to keep our fingers on the pulse. We have designed a new survey to ask the sustainability and...

Products & Solutions

Customized Transparency with iPCA Web

The new web-client of the iPoint Compliance Agent, iPCA Web, enables companies to advance transparency in their supply chain and provide their managers and specialists with exactly the data they need. At Toyota, for...

Trends & Technology

Sustainability and Compliance Trends – What Kept Companies Busy in 2018?

At the beginning of 2018, iPoint started to conduct a survey on Sustainability and Compliance Trends 2018 – and the response was overwhelming: More than 450 participants from different industries provided information...

Digital transformation for resource efficiency

News & Updates

Envisioning a sustainable future: increasing resource efficiency through digitization

Digitalization and Industry 4.0 loom large on the horizon of manufacturing. For many companies, they represent the vision of a more sustainable future – and, according to Jan Hedemann from ifu Hamburg, Member of iPoint...

Products & Solutions

A Compliance Survey Tool that Grows with Your Supply Chain

In November 2018, iPoint launched a new compliance survey app for the SustainHub platform as a perfect addition to the existing apps Material Compliance (MC), Conflict Minerals (CM), and Product Chem Risk (PCR). The new...