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LCA software for apparel and footwear

We turn data chaos into a detailed view of your products' environmental impact.

What is Carbonfact_LCA
Selected by 150+ fashion, luxury and footwear brands

Get a clear and accurate view of your products' environmental footprints

 

YOUR CHALLENGE

Your LCAs are a data nightmare

It can take months to evaluate a single style, costing you up to $15,000 per life cycle assessment.

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100+ data points needed for accuracy

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Limited access to data beyond the first tier

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Costly, time-consuming, and resource-intensive

EXCEL MESS

 

OUR LCA SOLUTION
OUR SOLUTION

We turn data chaos into precise LCA insights at the SKU level.

LCAs for fashion brands, made easy - this is how:

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Environmental impact measurement for all your products (CO2e, water consumption, land use, etc.)

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Interactive platform and real-time LCA data automatically enriched from your IT systems (ERP, PLM, etc.)

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Priority-driven data collection from suppliers thanks to our unique Uncertainty KPI

 

How Carbonfact works

01 Retrieve your data

Our journey begins by ingesting all your existing product and supply chain data. We consolidate and clean your diverse data sets, from any source, in any format. To reduce your workload to a minimum, we build a custom connector that integrates with your existing systems, automating future data import and creating a live connection to Carbonfact.

1 Retrieve your data
02 Fill data gaps

Incomplete data? Not a problem  - we identify and fill in your data gaps. Data engineering features and AI - trained on extensive primary data sets - automatically fill in missing details like component weights, dtex, and process-level steps. 

Fill data gaps
03 Calculate footprints

Once your data is processed, our Life Cycle Assessment engine automatically calculates the footprints for each of your products on an SKU level. The numbers update whenever new purchase orders are synced via the live data connection. 

3 Calculate footprints
04 Improve data quality

Carbonfact helps you identify emission hotspots and smartly prioritize your supplier data collection. By providing you with a concrete list of data points to gather from your suppliers, we save your team weeks of time and effort.

Increase accuracy
05 Analyze and disclose your emissions

Explore your data with interactive dashboards, perform your yearly GHG Carbon Accounting, and automatically generate reports to stay compliant with CSRD and other regulatory requirements.

5 Analyze and disclose your emissions-2
06 Decarbonize

Dive into your data with our analytics dashboards and simulate changes using our advanced simulation tools. Model changes across components, materials, process steps, and transport on a product and catalog level.

6 Decarbonize
1 Retrieve your data Fill data gaps 3 Calculate footprints Increase accuracy 5 Analyze and disclose your emissions-2 6 Decarbonize

 

Why Carbonfact

From key emission drivers across the value chain to product design decisions, our platform provides you with the insights you need to lower your environmental impact.

100% fashion focused

With our granular intelligence across the entire supply chain, we’re able to deliver the most accurate results and offer expert advice. 

Industry standards

We adhere to the GHG protocol, ISO standards, and the European Commission’s PEF standard for complete compliance.

Scalable platform

Live, interactive data and graphs that update when you provide us with new data.

Actionable insights

Conduct Carbon Accounting (Scope 1, 2, 3), submit SBTi, or build your decarbonization strategies.

Priority-driven data collection

Our Uncertainty metric helps to prioritze your data collection efforts from suppliers, and saves you weeks of work.

First results in just 2-5 weeks

We fill your data gaps with smart heuristics and industry benchmark data to provide you with an initial assessment quickly. 

Custom emission factors

We create custom emission factors based on your data and products.

Automated data collection

We connect to your PLM and ERP systems to create a live data connection to our platform.

Product LCA  software for apparel and footwear brands

Carbonfact is the only fashion-specific Carbon Accounting and Product-LCA platform that helps brands and manufacturers discover the exact sources of their environmental impact and take actionable steps to reduce their footprint.

How does it work?

  1. We clean and import all your product data by building a custom system connector

  2. We fill your data gaps with benchmark data and heuristics

  3. Our compliant LCA engine calculates your SKU-level carbon footprints

  4. We increase the accuracy of your LCA results by gathering more data from suppliers

  5. Report your emissions with the help of our standard reports 

  6. Decarbonize across the value chain using our advanced simulation tools 

  7. Share your success in reducing emissions

Read more about our typical customer journey here, or watch lingerie brand Adore Me share their experience with our onboarding process.

Our data is messy, can we work with you?

Yes! After working with 150+ fashion and footwear brands, there is nothing that we haven’t seen. Whether you’re managing data across 10 different Excel sheets or have a sophisticated ERP and data warehouse setup, we are confident in our ability to ingest your data. Before we start working together, we will ask you for a small sample of your data, and our Head of Data will have a look to be 100% sure. Once we start working together, we clean your data and build a custom connector that automatically imports data from your systems.

My data is not complete, can you still calculate SKU-level footprints?

Yes, we can! Carbonfact’s proprietary database includes all the primary data (product descriptive data, data on processes and energy consumed, etc.) collected from our current customer base which has been aggregated and anonymized. Any client can benefit from this database when primary data is insufficient. Read more about how we deal with missing data (e.g. product weights) here.

What primary data do you use?

We collect as much primary data as possible to increase the overall accuracy of our calculations. This is a non-exhaustive list of the optional data fields that you can input into our platform:

  • Weights of components

  • Weight of packaging

  • Loss ratios in the assembling phase

  • Precise transportation routes

  • Energy and type of energy consumed by process steps

  • Origin of the fiber

  • Fabric formation (woven / knitted)

  • Deci-tex of the yarns

  • Technology used for the dyeing/printing and finishing process of the fabric

  • Supplier data: energy consumed and energy mix

You can also add your own datasets if they are compliant with our LCA methodology (PEF) and emissions factors.

What secondary databases do you use?

Ecoinvent, EF 3.1, Base Empreinte, Idemat, Higg, Mistra Future Fashion Report and some other scientific reports. Carbonfact’s proprietary database includes all the primary data (product descriptive data, data on processes and energy consumed, etc.) collected from our current customer base which has been aggregated and anonymized. Any client can benefit from this database when primary data is insufficient.

What is your experience in the apparel and footwear sector?

We are solely working for the fashion industry and we serve 150 clients in the textile, footwear and leather goods industries, including New Balance, AdoreMe, Allbirds, A.P.C., Sézane, Celio, and ARMEDANGELS. See a customer story here.

How Scientific is your approach?

  • Our Science department is led by PhD. Bahareh Zamani (Linkedin / Google Scholar)

  • We follow PEFCR methodology and ISO 14040 norm

  • We are supported by 2BPolicy (Baptiste Carriere-Pradal) on regulatory matters

  • We are audited by PwC once a year

Are your calculations transparent?

Yes. All our calculations are granularly structured, transparent, version controlled and auditable. Moreover, PwC conducts a yearly review of our methodology and LCA engine.

From which IT systems can you collect data?

We are able to retrieve data from any source, including:

  • PLM / ERP (Centric, Lectra, SAP, D365, etc.)

  • Data warehouse (Google Bigquery, Snowflake, etc.)

  • Traceability platforms (retraced, TrusTrace, …)

  • Live Excel/Google Sheet

 

Carbonfact handles all the heavy lifting by building connectors to pull data out of your systems.

Do you only focus on carbon?

We provide data on all 16 indicators specified in the PEF. Read more here.

What dashboarding and analytics capabilities do you provide?

Here are some of the analytics available on the platform:

  • Total footprint and average footprint for all products, categorized by factors such as category, manufacturer, material, etc., with yearly data breakdowns.

  • Emissions from scopes 1, 2, 3 (to feed standard GHG reports)

  • Materials weights and shares (to feed sustainability reports)

 

Want to see a tour of the Carbonfact platform? Request a demo with our team here.

What is a life cycle assessment?

Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) offers a systematic method for assessing the ecological footprint of a product across its entire existence.

By examining the full life cycle of the item, from sourcing raw materials, manufacturing processes, usage phase, different transportation methods and distances, to waste management, it provides a holistic view of the product's total environmental implications.

For textile companies to truly understand a product's environmental impact, they need to address the following queries:

  • Which materials are incorporated in the product?
  • Where are these materials sourced from
  • What chemicals are present in the supply chain?
  • What stages does the product undergo, such as spinning, weaving or knitting, bleaching, dyeing, and finishing among others?
  • How is the product moved and what's the span of these journeys?
  • What becomes of the product once it's considered waste?

To learn more read our educational guide on life cycle assessment for fashion, apparel, footwear and leather goods. 


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