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Today, we’re launching PCF Studio—our easy-to-use tool that allows manufacturers to quickly and reliably calculate product carbon footprints. Below, I explain why we think that this matters and how it works, but if you’ve already been looking for a way to make your PCFs faster and cheaper to deliver, then you can sign up for beta access today.
The world of emissions reporting has changed a lot in the last year. While fewer European companies now fall within CSRD scope, their requirements rapidly cascade down the supply chain to their manufacturers.
That means that large companies will start looking to their supply chain for both credible emissions reporting and opportunities to meet reduction targets. Already, enterprises including DuPont, dsm-firmenich, and BT have made PCFs either a requirement or a major advantage in supplier selection.
For manufacturers, sustainability has quickly moved from a reporting checkbox to a major commercial risk. Manufacturers who can’t share reliable product-level emissions data will be excluded from RFPs, removed from strategic initiatives, and face pricing pressure to stay competitive.
However, as with any shift, these changes also present a huge opportunity. Manufacturers with robust emission measurement capabilities will have an advantage in procurement processes and competitive tenders.
But most manufacturers lack in-house LCA expertise. That means that the task of calculating and sharing product-level emissions is scattered across sales, product development, finance, and operations—without the right tooling or expertise.
While corporate carbon footprinting focuses on organizational emissions, product carbon footprints (PCFs) require granular analysis of materials, components, manufacturing processes, and transportation across complex supply chains. Managing these calculations for every aspect of every product quickly stacks up.
To add to the complexity, there are multiple established reporting standards, including ISO 14067 and GHG Protocol Product Standard, each with distinct requirements for system boundaries, allocation methods, and data quality. Product lifecycle assessment (LCA) spans several stages from raw materials and manufacturing to end-of-life, with specific methodologies and requirements. With the disparity between product types—from simple components, to processed food products, to apparel, to electronics—finding a way to apply this methodology is hugely complicated.
In response to the complexity, current market solutions for PCF development fall into three main categories, each with key advantages and drawbacks that have held back the widespread adoption of PCFs and supply chain integration.
Consultancies deliver very accurate, in-depth reports, but they take a long time and are too expensive to assess a full product range.
LCA software can deliver insights into impacts including water and land use, but few companies have the budget or bandwidth to learn these complex tools.
DIY PCFs in Excel take a long time to build, and don’t have the versioning or transparency that customers or auditors need.
That’s why we’ve built PCF Studio: to give manufacturers a path to calculate PCFs that’s easier than traditional LCA tools, faster than consultants, and more scalable than ever before. Our PCF API already delivers calculations in enterprise-grade platforms including Celonis, supporting companies including Andritz. PCF Studio makes those tools accessible to everyone in a user-friendly format, no need for coding or waiting for implementation. That means your team in sustainability, operations, and finance can deliver reliable calculations, and easily share the results with customers, partners, and prospects. No learning curve, no waiting, and no big bills.
PCF Studio addresses the traditional trade-off between accuracy, speed, and cost by combining comprehensive emission factor coverage with intelligent automation.
The foundation is our industry-leading emission factor database with over 900,000 verified factors (and counting!) from providers including ecoinvent, sustamize, Carbon Minds, and many more, with simple and consistent licensing that gives manufacturers global and granular access to the emissions data they need.
Our proprietary AI tools are key to making PCF Studio fast and easy to use. They handle the complex process of mapping bill of materials (BoMs) components to appropriate emission factors in minutes, saving a huge amount of time for every product. Beyond components, our certified calculation engines handle upstream transportation, energy, and manufacturing processes with transparent audit trails for verification. PCF Studio calculations are aligned with PACT methodology, GHG Protocol Product Life Cycle Accounting and Reporting Standard, and ISO 14067, and we aim to have completed the certification process early in Q2.
It all comes together in an intuitive interface that guides users through the PCF calculation process without extensive training or endless settings to tweak. This gives you a clear, easily sharable, cradle-to-gate PCF result, with emissions broken down across materials, manufacturing, and freight—all with a full audit trail. This means your team can respond to RFPs faster, support customer sustainability programs more effectively, and turn PCF requirements from a barrier into a competitive advantage.
Using PCF Studio, sustainability teams in manufacturing companies can clearly quantify their impact on both emissions and revenue. Adding PCFs across your product portfolio can:
Easy-to-use PCFs are a game-changer for sustainability teams to impact operational and commercial decisions within their organizations. That’s why we’re so excited to announce our PCF Studio beta program today.
You can now use our calculations and data to build your own PCFs, while also helping to shape the future of PCF Studio. Whether you’re new to Climatiq or an existing customer, you can sign up for beta access today, and get to work on your PCFs!
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