Industry

Turn your carbon challenges into a driver of product and industrial competitiveness

Why are environmental issues becoming a key factor in industrial competitiveness?

Secure Your Markets and Meet Client Requirements

Environmental expectations in the industry are on the rise. Clients are increasingly demanding reliable data on products, processes, suppliers, and supply chains. This issue directly affects sectors such as mobility, plastics, automotive, batteries, and electronics:

  • Secure your market position: The ability to demonstrate a credible carbon footprint trajectory (for both the company and its products) is becoming a prerequisite for responding to requests for proposals, supplier questionnaires, and inquiries from major clients. Having data on your products and operations is becoming a competitive advantage.
  • Anticipate regulatory changes: The CSRD, Digital Product Passport (DPP), and future European regulations are tightening transparency requirements regarding environmental impact. Anticipating these changes allows you to prepare for the future.
  • Showcase the efforts you’ve already made: Transform your decarbonization investments (energy efficiency, loss reduction, integration of recycled materials, logistics optimization, process improvements, or eco-design) into concrete, measurable performance metrics that set you apart from the competition.

A pragmatic approach to moving forward step by step

  1. Take Your Reality Into Account

    Every company has its own challenges, resources, and market objectives. We work with you to identify the most appropriate starting point—product life cycle assessment, carbon footprint analysis, or eco-design—based on your level of maturity and your priorities.

  2. Leveraging Your Industrial Data

    We use your production data, bills of materials, and supplier information to generate clear and actionable carbon metrics, while minimizing the impact on your operational teams' workload.

  3. Prioritizing Your Areas of Action

    We identify the areas in your value chain that generate the most emissions (raw materials, logistics, energy, product design) in order to prioritize the most effective and cost-efficient reduction and eco-design measures.

  4. Build your roadmap step by step

    Depending on your needs, we can draw on recognized frameworks such as ACT Pas à Pas (ADEME) to define a coherent path forward, prioritize actions, and ensure the sustainability of your initiative.

Carbon Footprint, LCA, and Decarbonization Pathway Services for Manufacturers

Measure, understand, and improve your environmental impacts, and showcase your commitment

We address the key environmental challenges facing the industrial sector:

MEASURE 

  • Industrial Carbon Footprint and Low-Carbon Strategy: Measurement of greenhouse gas emissions, identification of the main sources of emissions, and support in defining a strategy tailored to your challenges and level of maturity.
  • Product Life Cycle Assessment (LCA): Measure the environmental impact of your products throughout their entire life cycle to identify opportunities for reducing that impact and compare different scenarios.

IMPROVE

  • Eco-design and decision support: Material selection, integration of recycled materials, process optimization, or comparison of alternatives—we help you incorporate environmental considerations from the product design phase onward by identifying solutions that balance reduced environmental impact, technical feasibility, and economic constraints.
  • Decarbonization Pathway Modeling: Development of a comprehensive carbon reduction pathway (covering organizational and industrial activities) aligned with your strategic objectives and investment cycles.

HIGHLIGHT

  • Highlighting Environmental Benefits: Certain solutions help reduce environmental impacts for their users. We support companies that want to measure and highlight these environmental benefits.
  • Preparing for Future Traceability Requirements: We help manufacturers prepare for regulatory changes such as the Digital Product Passport and new expectations for transparency in value chains.

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The Eco-Design Assessment: Fund Your LCA and Eco-Design Projects with Bpifrance

Access public funding to support your initiatives 

The Diag Éco-conception program, led by Bpifrance, helps fund part of your environmental analysis and product eco-design efforts.

Our strength with this program ensures your teams don’t waste time:

  • Immediate efficiency: We don’t waste time on issues with little impact and immediately focus on the key factors driving your products.
  • Support with data collection: We guide your teams step by step through the process of gathering the necessary internal data
  • Smart decision-making: We know exactly when specific data is needed and when relevant industry-specific assumptions can be used to move forward without unnecessarily increasing your teams’ workload.

The Eco-design Assessment is not an end in itself, but the starting point for a process of continuous improvement.

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Why do manufacturers choose Kapstan?

  1. Expertise focused on industrial realities

    We take a pragmatic approach tailored to the challenges faced by manufacturers: production, costs, supply chain, deadlines, and customer requirements. Our recommendations are designed to be practical and implementable in the field.

  2. Expertise in carbon and product methodologies

    GHG Protocol, Bilan Carbone® (ADEME / ABC), LCA (ISO 14040/44), and ACT Pas à Pas… we apply the standards best suited to your specific challenges, rather than using a one-size-fits-all approach for every project.

  3. Responsive support that's fully integrated with your teams

    We work closely with your teams to make rapid progress, tailor our analyses to your specific needs, and gradually build your company’s expertise in environmental matters.

  4. A strong product and industry culture

    We work on both the company's operations and its products. This dual expertise allows us to link environmental issues to the technical, economic, and commercial realities of your markets.

Any questions?

Yes. We tailor our approach to your internal resources, whether you are conducting your first assessment or already have a strategy in place.

A comprehensive assessment takes anywhere from a few weeks to several months. However, initial opportunities for reduction are identified as early as the initial phases of data collection and analysis.

 There is no one-size-fits-all approach. Depending on your specific challenges, we can start with a carbon footprint assessment, a product life cycle assessment (LCA), an eco-design assessment, or a step-by-step ACT process. Our goal is to identify the most appropriate first step for your business.

Our analyses and training programs enable your sales teams to highlight your carbon and environmental performance, particularly in requests for proposals and responses to your clients.

No. We’re here to help you identify useful data, prioritize the information you need to collect, and move forward step by step without unnecessarily tying up your teams.

The ACT Step-by-Step approach, led by ADEME, is a methodological framework that enables companies to define and implement a decarbonization strategy consistent with their challenges and resources.