Circular Economy
of consumer products
Helping you reduce the environmental impact, whilst increasing the lifespan or your products.
OUR SRVICES - environmental DURABILITY AND performance
Choosing the right raw materials, defining the manufacturing processes, reducing transport pollution and analysing the recyclable aspects of a product, are all parameters that allow the manufacturer to reduce the environmental footprint of a product.
Technical Guidance
- Achievement of Life Cycle Assessment (LCA)
- Identification of the ecodesign actions to implement
- Integration of ecodesign in your company
Environmental communication
- Building your environmental declarations
- PEP ecopassport®, FDES
- EPD System®, self-declaration, environmental labelling
Tools creation
- Sale of the EIME license and standardization of your LCA studies under EIME
- Creation of environmental calculators
Audit & Verification
- LCA critical review
- Verification of your declarations : PEP ecopassport®, FDES, EPD System®
- Certification of your products : Bureau Veritas Footprint Progress®
Training
OUR SERVICES - FUNCTIONAL DURABILITY AND PERFORMANCE
Through repairing or reuse, we can extend the life duration of a product and increase the products lifecycle.
A well-thought and well-designed product will always benefit from a longer life.
Assess and improve product functionality and performance
- The end of life analysis
- The evaluation of the performance and resistance to ageing
- The verification of the Fitness For Use - FFU : Ability of a product to answer to the expected use, and capacity to keep on working according to a normal use, and during a determined period of time.
Performance testing also helps to verify the marketing allegations and measure a product’s positioning against the market’s reference one.
We CAN offer you guidance around
- The development of your product
- The construction of the product’s specifications
- A product range review in the purpose of selecting suppliers
- Solving a quality issue.
AT BUREAU VERITAS We help you manage your environmental durability and performance
As market demand rises, the concerns of manufactures, retailers and importers' to offer a durable product increases.
Within circular economy, durability and performance have to be considered for both the environmental impact as well as maintaining a functional product.