Technology/Machinery

Strengthening validity for complete LCA solution

A new partnership has been unveiled by TrusTrace, a global SaaS company with a platform for product traceability and compliance, and Peftrust, a leading product-level environmental footprinting solution for textiles and footwear. The collaboration goes beyond the exchange of information to combine super-specific Peftrust Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) scores with TrusTrace's hyper-accurate and authenticated environmental traceability data to create an end-to-end solution for environmental impact and traceability.

The partnership, which leverages TrusTrace's data that defines a traceability standard, was announced during the Premiere Vision Paris event, taking place on the July 4-6, 2023, in Paris/France.

In Europe, the Product Environmental Footprint (PEF) score has become an integral standard for fashion brands to validate their sustainability claims, improve the impact of their products to enable eco-design, and remain in compliance with a growing number of regulations. By partnering with Peftrust by L'Empreinte SAS, Metz/France, a best-in-class product life cycle assessment (LCA) solution, TrusTrace, Stockholm/Sweden, has integrated its solutions to send specific environmental data to Peftrust which, in turn, is available directly within the TrusTrace platform.

As a result, the end-to-end solution combines environmental traceability and impact, providing much more than the interchange of data.

This partnership enhances the specificity of PEF scores by now leveraging primary data available through TrusTrace's platform, as opposed to standard industry-averaged data – which tends to be less accurate. As a result, the score takes more brand-specific parameters into account. While a brand only needs to enter a few data points to generate an initial PEF score, utilizing TrusTrace data automatically provides more than 20 specific parameters from the supply chain network, making the score more robust. TrusTrace's quality data is connected to Peftrust through an API; once a score is calculated, it is sent back into TrusTrace's user interface.

The Product Environmental Footprint (PEF) is a methodology developed by the European Commission to account for a product's entire life cycle. The score, which covers 16 impacts beyond a product's carbon footprint, is based on Life Cycle Assessments (LCA), the method for measuring environmental impact. This method tracks manufactured materials from the beginning to the end of its' life' to determine its overall environmental impact. An increasing number of US brands are also considering the PEF score as the most reliable sustainability measurement.

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