April '25 Platform Update: Your Factories, Now in Carbonfact

For brands committed to decarbonization, accurate factory data is crucial. Knowing precisely where and how your products are manufactured, and the energy mix used by each facility, is essential for reliable carbon footprint calculations, and spotting decarbonization opportunities on a regional basis.

Historically, updating factory energy mix information has been complicated and manual, often involving tedious spreadsheets and lengthy exchanges. We've heard repeatedly from our customers that collecting and managing factory energy data is time-consuming and inefficient.

Our goal is to remove this complexity and empower your sustainability teams with better tools. One of our customers recently said "In 2025, our goal is to define a robust supplier strategy to pick the best factory from an environmental perspective." And that’s exactly what this release is here to help with.

What’s New?

With this update, Carbonfact introduces Factories – a powerful feature to easily manage and update your factories' energy data directly on our platform:

• Direct Factory Energy Updates: Quickly and easily specify or refine the energy mix for each factory in your supply chain. Whether it's renewable energy, grid electricity, or fossil fuels, you can now clearly define each energy source directly within Carbonfact.
• Enhanced Accuracy and Transparency: Changes made to your factories' energy mixes automatically flow into the lifecycle assessment (LCA) of every product produced at these facilities, improving the precision and reliability of your environmental reporting.
• Simple Interface, Powerful Impact: With an intuitive editing interface, you can effortlessly adjust energy data, significantly reducing manual processes. Changes are logged clearly, providing full transparency on who made updates, what was changed, and when.

Why It Matters

Accurate factory energy data is central to effective sustainability strategies. With Factories, sustainability teams can take control over their own data enhancements. It allows you to easily evaluate factories on environmental performance, better inform sourcing decisions, and achieve higher data accuracy for emissions reporting.

What's Next?

We plan to continuously expand our platform's capabilities, making it simpler for you to integrate deeper insights into your supply chain emissions. The long-term vision is clear: provide comprehensive, reliable factory-level data that drives meaningful environmental-footprint reductions.