LCA software for apparel and footwear
We turn data chaos into a detailed view of your products' environmental impact.
OUR SOLUTION
We turn data chaos into precise LCA insights at the SKU level.
LCAs for fashion brands, made easy - this is how:
Environmental impact measurement for all your products (CO2e, water consumption, land use, etc.)
Interactive platform and real-time LCA data automatically enriched from your IT systems (ERP, PLM, etc.)
Priority-driven data collection from suppliers thanks to our unique Uncertainty KPI
How Carbonfact works
Our journey begins by ingesting all your existing product and supply chain data. We consolidate and clean your diverse data sets, from any source, in any format. To reduce your workload to a minimum, we build a custom connector that integrates with your existing systems, automating future data import and creating a live connection to Carbonfact.
Incomplete data? Not a problem - we identify and fill in your data gaps. Data engineering features and AI - trained on extensive primary data sets - automatically fill in missing details like component weights, dtex, and process-level steps.
Once your data is processed, our Life Cycle Assessment engine automatically calculates the footprints for each of your products on an SKU level. The numbers update whenever new purchase orders are synced via the live data connection.
Carbonfact helps you identify emission hotspots and smartly prioritize your supplier data collection. By providing you with a concrete list of data points to gather from your suppliers, we save your team weeks of time and effort.
Explore your data with interactive dashboards, perform your yearly GHG Carbon Accounting, and automatically generate reports to stay compliant with CSRD and other regulatory requirements.
Dive into your data with our analytics dashboards and simulate changes using our advanced simulation tools. Model changes across components, materials, process steps, and transport on a product and catalog level.
100% fashion focused
With our granular intelligence across the entire supply chain, we’re able to deliver the most accurate results and offer expert advice.
Industry standards
We adhere to the GHG protocol, ISO standards, and the European Commission’s PEF standard for complete compliance.
Scalable platform
Live, interactive data and graphs that update when you provide us with new data.
Actionable insights
Conduct Carbon Accounting (Scope 1, 2, 3), submit SBTi, or build your decarbonization strategies.
Priority-driven data collection
Our Uncertainty metric helps to prioritze your data collection efforts from suppliers, and saves you weeks of work.
First results in just 2-5 weeks
We fill your data gaps with smart heuristics and industry benchmark data to provide you with an initial assessment quickly.
Custom emission factors
We create custom emission factors based on your data and products.
Automated data collection
We connect to your PLM and ERP systems to create a live data connection to our platform.
"With Carbonfact, we finally found a partner that ideally complements our new carbon strategy. The ability to break down carbon data down to product level finally gives us insight into the biggest levers for carbon reduction along the entire product life cycle. With the modelling function of possible scenarios, we hope to integrate carbon reduction measures into product development. This will be an important step towards achieving our carbon targets."
Philipp Schumacher
Corporate Social Responsibility Manager at Fondof
"Allbirds was founded to create better things in a better way, a mission that inspired our laser-focus on carbon reduction -- and eventually, labeling each of our products with its carbon footprint. As we continue to grow, Carbonfact's offerings, particularly its product-level focus for footwear and apparel, ensures we can both measure our carbon footprint and actively find ways to reduce it. Carbonfact has been instrumental in helping us model different scenarios and make informed decisions that align with our sustainability goals."
Aileen Lerch
Sustainability at Allbirds
"Among the crowded market of carbon management tools, Carbonfact stood out for us. Their solution met our specific needs of automating carbon footprint calculations for all our products and emission scopes in the textile industry. Carbonfact's LCA expertise, smart approach to handling data gaps, and ability to connect and feed calculation results back into our systems were key factors that convinced us.”
Katya Kruk
Impact & Innovation Director at ARMEDANGELS
“Our journey with Carbonfact began with the platform ingesting all of our existing product data. Carbonfact did all the heavy lifting in regards to cleaning and consolidating our data. Our manual workload was minimal, allowing us to focus on our decarbonization efforts. Their hands-on decarbonization workshops provided us with practical insights and guidance. Carbonfact is not just a Carbon Management Software, but an extension of our sustainability team.”
Florence Degoy Vacher
Secrétaire Générale chez A.P.C.
"We have moved from spend-based carbon accounting into Carbonfact to prioritise primary data and get more accurate calculations. The main reason for us to choose Carbonfact is that we now not only get our company's total carbon footprint but also break it down for each of our products. Thanks to Carbonfact’s focus on the apparel industry we get life cycle assessments with industry specific data for all our products in an easy way. Which helps us make the right decisions and reach our goal of reducing our emissions by 50% before 2030.”
Malin Bosaeus
Global Sustainability Manager
at Happy Socks
Cobalt’s goal is to proactively manage our carbon footprint in the supply chain with the partners concerned and integrate such data into our ERP system. Carbonfact has enabled us to manage processes and the reporting of our emissions, as well as to ensure we comply with government regulations in both the production countries and importing countries.
Ellen Arosio
Senior Compliance and Sustainability Manager
at Cobalt Fashion
"With an increasing number of regulations, we heavily rely on Carbonfact to supply us with reliable data for disclosure purposes. We are fully aware of the risks of greenwashing and Carbonfact proves to be an invaluable tool in ensuring that the data we share is reliable. What truly impresses us about Carbonfact is its solid, science-based methodology combined with its fashion-oriented approach, which makes us feel that they are experts in our field."
Eve Morel
ESG Compliance Officer at Adore Me
“With the help of Carbonfact's production scenario simulator, we were able to assess the environmental impact of our supply chain and make an informed decision to move part of our manufacturing from China to Vietnam. This change has resulted in a 12% reduction in the carbon footprint of our upcoming January 2024 spring collection. “
Nicolas Gand
VP Production at Adore Me
How does it work?
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We clean and import all your product data by building a custom system connector
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We fill your data gaps with benchmark data and heuristics
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Our compliant LCA engine calculates your SKU-level carbon footprints
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We increase the accuracy of your LCA results by gathering more data from suppliers
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Report your emissions with the help of our standard reports
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Decarbonize across the value chain using our advanced simulation tools
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Share your success in reducing emissions
Read more about our typical customer journey here, or watch lingerie brand Adore Me share their experience with our onboarding process.
Our data is messy, can we work with you?
Yes! After working with 150+ fashion and footwear brands, there is nothing that we haven’t seen. Whether you’re managing data across 10 different Excel sheets or have a sophisticated ERP and data warehouse setup, we are confident in our ability to ingest your data. Before we start working together, we will ask you for a small sample of your data, and our Head of Data will have a look to be 100% sure. Once we start working together, we clean your data and build a custom connector that automatically imports data from your systems.
My data is not complete, can you still calculate SKU-level footprints?
Yes, we can! Carbonfact’s proprietary database includes all the primary data (product descriptive data, data on processes and energy consumed, etc.) collected from our current customer base which has been aggregated and anonymized. Any client can benefit from this database when primary data is insufficient. Read more about how we deal with missing data (e.g. product weights) here.
What primary data do you use?
We collect as much primary data as possible to increase the overall accuracy of our calculations. This is a non-exhaustive list of the optional data fields that you can input into our platform:
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Weights of components
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Weight of packaging
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Loss ratios in the assembling phase
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Precise transportation routes
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Energy and type of energy consumed by process steps
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Origin of the fiber
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Fabric formation (woven / knitted)
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Deci-tex of the yarns
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Technology used for the dyeing/printing and finishing process of the fabric
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Supplier data: energy consumed and energy mix
You can also add your own datasets if they are compliant with our LCA methodology (PEF) and emissions factors.
What secondary databases do you use?
Ecoinvent, EF 3.1, Base Empreinte, Idemat, Higg, Mistra Future Fashion Report and some other scientific reports. Carbonfact’s proprietary database includes all the primary data (product descriptive data, data on processes and energy consumed, etc.) collected from our current customer base which has been aggregated and anonymized. Any client can benefit from this database when primary data is insufficient.
What is your experience in the apparel and footwear sector?
We are solely working for the fashion industry and we serve 150 clients in the textile, footwear and leather goods industries, including New Balance, AdoreMe, Allbirds, A.P.C., Sézane, Celio, and ARMEDANGELS. See a customer story here.
How Scientific is your approach?
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Our Science department is led by PhD. Bahareh Zamani (Linkedin / Google Scholar)
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We follow PEFCR methodology and ISO 14040 norm
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We are supported by 2BPolicy (Baptiste Carriere-Pradal) on regulatory matters
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We are audited by PwC once a year
Are your calculations transparent?
Yes. All our calculations are granularly structured, transparent, version controlled and auditable. Moreover, PwC conducts a yearly review of our methodology and LCA engine.
From which IT systems can you collect data?
We are able to retrieve data from any source, including:
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PLM / ERP (Centric, Lectra, SAP, D365, etc.)
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Data warehouse (Google Bigquery, Snowflake, etc.)
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Traceability platforms (retraced, TrusTrace, …)
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Live Excel/Google Sheet
Carbonfact handles all the heavy lifting by building connectors to pull data out of your systems.
Do you only focus on carbon?
We provide data on all 16 indicators specified in the PEF. Read more here.
What dashboarding and analytics capabilities do you provide?
Here are some of the analytics available on the platform:
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Total footprint and average footprint for all products, categorized by factors such as category, manufacturer, material, etc., with yearly data breakdowns.
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Emissions from scopes 1, 2, 3 (to feed standard GHG reports)
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Materials weights and shares (to feed sustainability reports)
Want to see a tour of the Carbonfact platform? Request a demo with our team here.
What is a life cycle assessment?
By examining the full life cycle of the item, from sourcing raw materials, manufacturing processes, usage phase, different transportation methods and distances, to waste management, it provides a holistic view of the product's total environmental implications.
For textile companies to truly understand a product's environmental impact, they need to address the following queries:
- Which materials are incorporated in the product?
- Where are these materials sourced from
- What chemicals are present in the supply chain?
- What stages does the product undergo, such as spinning, weaving or knitting, bleaching, dyeing, and finishing among others?
- How is the product moved and what's the span of these journeys?
- What becomes of the product once it's considered waste?
To learn more read our educational guide on life cycle assessment for fashion, apparel, footwear and leather goods.