Chemicals are used in around 95% of manufactured goods. Understanding their environmental impact is essential for meeting growing reporting and customer demands and identifying opportunities to improve product footprints.
Customers increasingly request credible PCF and LCA data for the products they purchase. Reliable environmental data on chemical inputs helps you respond to these requests, provide transparent product footprints, and support customer relationships.
Growing reporting requirements and customer expectations are increasing the need for transparent, traceable, and consistent emissions data. A reliable data foundation for your chemical inputs helps you improve environmental assessments, reduce reliance on broad estimates, and support reporting and assurance where applicable.
Understanding your environmental footprint is the first step toward reducing it. Chemicals can contribute significantly to environmental impacts across different industries, making them an important consideration when evaluating reduction opportunities. Reliable data helps you understand their contribution, compare materials and sourcing options, and identify measures to improve the environmental performance of your products.
Environmental data for purchased chemicals, intermediates, and plastics is often missing or incomplete. Generic averages and proxies may overlook differences in production technologies, raw materials, and sourcing regions, making it harder to assess product footprints and identify potential hotspots.
PCF and LCA data from different sources can vary in methodology, system boundaries, and assumptions. Without a consistent data foundation, comparing chemical inputs, understanding their environmental impacts, and evaluating reduction opportunities becomes challenging.
As reporting requirements and customer requests grow, assessing large product portfolios becomes increasingly complex. Reliable data, consistent methodologies, and scalable processes help maintain comparable results, identify reduction levers, and track environmental improvements.
Access reliable, technology- and region-specific PCF and LCA data for the chemicals and plastics used in your products.
Compare suppliers of selected bulk chemicals and identify Scope 3 reduction opportunities.
Close Scope 3.1 data gaps with automated emission factor mapping.
Close critical data gaps with custom PCF and LCA data for your chemicals.
Scale reliable PCFs across your entire product portfolio.
Assess the environmental impact of individual products or entire product portfolios.
Develop a clear, evidence-based strategy to achieve net-zero – from individual production sites to entire value chains.
Build practical LCA and PCF skills to assess chemical inputs in your products.
Henkel, a global leader in industrial and consumer goods, partnered with Carbon Minds to enhance GHG emissions data coverage, automate PCF calculations for 60,000 products, and improve customer communication.
Oskar Vögler directs industry solutions at Carbon Minds, shaping how the company serves the chemicals and adjacent industries with Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) and Product Carbon Footprint (PCF) expertise. He combines hands-on team leadership with strategic responsibility, translating client needs into product improvements that enable the industry to realize tangible business value.
Since joining in 2020, he has built and led an interdisciplinary team of engineers and chemists, turning rigorous LCA and PCF work into practical data, consulting, and training, while steering the direction of Carbon Minds’ evolving service portfolio.
Learn how to scale PCF and Scope 3.1 calculations through efficient emission factor mapping and targeted modeling, focusing on the data gaps that matter most.
Learn how to overcome data gaps, inconsistent methodologies, and generic averages to build a reliable, future-proof data foundation for environmental assessments, reporting, and informed reduction decisions.
A practical playbook for supplier engagement, procurement decisions, and net‑zero investment planning.