cm.chemicals
Meet cm.chemicals, the chemical industry’s most comprehensive product carbon footprint (PCF) and life cycle assessment (LCA) database.
Supplier Footprint Analytics
Compare suppliers and identify Scope 3 reduction opportunities
Reliable environmental assessments for chemicals start with the right data
Build a consistent data foundation for PCFs, LCAs, and Scope 3 assessments. Access representative environmental data, close critical data gaps, and scale your assessments across your chemical portfolio with expert support.
WHY NOW?
Expectations are turning into requirements
Meet customer requirements before they become conditions
Customers increasingly ask chemical suppliers for product-level PCF data, and many already include it in their procurement criteria. Being able to respond with transparent, well-founded data is becoming a condition for doing business across chemical value chains.
Get your data ready for reporting and assurance
CSRD assurance requirements and frameworks such as the TfS PCF Guideline are raising expectations for transparent, traceable and methodologically consistent emissions data. A well-documented data foundation helps reduce reliance on broad estimates and proxies while supporting both reporting and customer requirements.
Build capability before demand reaches the full portfolio
What starts with individual requests can quickly expand across hundreds or thousands of products. Establishing the right data, methodology and processes early makes it easier to scale without relying on ad hoc calculations or overloading internal teams.
Industry Key Challenges
Building reliable assessments across complex chemical value chains
Reliable environmental assessments across chemical value chains depend on the right data, consistent methodology and processes that can scale across large product portfolios. Data gaps, methodological differences and portfolio complexity make this difficult in practice.
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Find the right data across complex chemical supply chains
Across the chemical industry, reliable emission factors are unavailable for thousands of intermediates, specialty chemicals and purchased materials. When supplier data is missing or incomplete, companies often have to rely on generic averages or proxies, making it harder to identify hotspots and prioritize effective reduction measures.
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Make environmental data consistent and comparable
PCFs and LCA data from different suppliers and databases can vary in methodology, system boundaries and underlying assumptions. Without a consistent data foundation, meaningful comparisons become difficult and changes in your results can be harder to explain.
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Scale environmental assessments across your portfolio
Moving from individual PCFs to hundreds or thousands of products requires more than additional calculations. Companies need the methodology, specialist expertise and processes to scale assessments efficiently and keep results consistent and up to date.
How we can help
Choose the right support that your chemical portfolio needs
Get the right data
Emission Factor Mapping Service
Close Scope 3.1 data gaps with automated emission factor mapping
Custom PCF & LCA Dataset Modeling
Close critical data gaps with custom PCF and LCA data for your chemicals
Expert support
PCFs for Your Entire Product Portfolio
Scale reliable PCFs across your entire product portfolio
PCF & LCA Studies
Carbon Minds can conduct a life cycle assessment (LCA) or product carbon footprint (PCF) study for single or multiple products.
Emission Reduction Studies
Develop a clear, evidence-based strategy to achieve net-zero – from individual production sites to entire value chains.
Methodology Development and Certification
Build a consistent methodology for reliable PCF and LCA calculations
LCA & PCF Course for Chemical Value Chains
Build practical LCA and PCF skills for your chemical products
Success stories
Avient Corporation, an innovator of materials solutions, recently collaborated with Carbon Minds to conduct cradle-to-gate carbon footprint analyses of their products using Carbon Minds data.
Brenntag, a global leader in chemical distribution, partnered with Carbon Minds to create a product carbon footprint (PCF) methodology and get it third-party certified.
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.
LANXESS, a leading specialty chemicals company, partnered with Carbon Minds to close data gaps, enhance carbon footprint accuracy, and strengthen sustainability reporting.
Sipchem InnoVent partnered with Carbon Minds to conduct a PCF assessment for its new MERAS® r-PET product range, creating transparency and credibility.
YOUR chemical Expert
Oskar Vögler
Director of Industry Solutions
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.
- Have a question about environmental data for chemicals and plastics? Talk to Oskar.
Chemical knowledge hub
Learn more about PCFs, LCAs and Scope 3.1 emissions in the chemical industry
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live webinar
Scaling Scope 3.1 Calculations: Finding the Right Level of Data Quality for Every Chemical
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.
On-Demand Webinar
No More Manual Work: A Fully Managed Service for Your Scope 3.1 Chemical Inventory
See how Azelis and Carbon Minds tackled Scope 3.1 data gaps to build a complete, reliable, and audit-ready emissions inventory with less manual effort and a systematic approach to emission factor mapping.
On-Demand Webinar
Certified PCFs for Your Entire Product Portfolio
Discover how to calculate reliable, ISO-compliant PCFs across your entire product portfolio without the need for extensive internal teams or IT infrastructure, with Carbon Minds’ end-to-end assessment service.