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 appropriate raw materials, establishing production procedures, decreasing transportation emissions, and analyzing the recyclable features of a product are all characteristics that assist a manufacturer to lower a product's environmental impact.
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
- A Training catalogue of 19 modules.
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.