Bengaluru, June 08, 2016: Today’s consumers demand that goods not only be manufactured to meet quality and safety requirements, but be sourced and manufactured using sustainable practices that do not adversely impact people or the environment.
In order to achieve this, manufacturers and retailers need to identify, measure and reduce the environmental impacts of all their business activities, including products, packaging, supply chain and the organization.
To help our customers implement a comprehensive approach, Intertek offers a range of environmental impact solutions that include:
Instant LCA™ Software – Intertek offers web based software developed to perform instantaneous LCA assessments of products, enable eco-design and assist in eco-labeling. Instant LCA Software™ enables non-experts to compare the environmental impacts of products by manipulating key parameters that significantly alter the environmental footprint of a product.
Environmental Chemical Management – Intertek offers a comprehensive chemical management program based on 3 key elements: people, product, and supply chain. Intertek’s chemical management program includes training and capacity building, assessing and mitigating chemical risks through Chemical Inventory Assessment, effluent testing, product safety regulation testing such as Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and Restriction of Chemical substances (REACH).
Environmental Claim Verification – Intertek’s Green Leaf Mark for Consumer Goods can be licensed by customers to communicate the environmental impacts and benefits of their products and processes. Intertek provides substantiation of environmental claims to enable customers to make validated claims that comply with global marketing guidelines.
Think Green Initiative (TGI) – Intertek’s comprehensive supplier assessment and capacity building solutionhelps to demonstrate environmental commitment and governance across supply chain. TGI will help bring operational benefits such as decreased environmental footprint, reduced operational costs, improved efficiencies and increased business opportunities.
Sustainable Packaging Solutions – Intertek provides packaging evaluation to ensure adequate protection while meeting regulatory requirements. The organisation also conduct packaging redesign assessments to improve functional attributes to reduce not only product defects, but also the amount of packaging used, which in turn helps to lower transportation costs as well as environmental impacts.
Corporate Comm India (CCI Newswire)
