Intertek Group plc and Fost Plus Asbl Join Forces to Create Eco-Design Measurement Tool for Packaging
January 31, 2012 at 10:15 pm
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Intertek Group plc collaborated through its Brussels-based European center of expertise for environmental solutions with Fost Plus Asbl to develop and implement pack4ecodesign, a life cycle analysis (LCA) tool to evaluate the environmental performance of and optimize packaging. Fost Plus approached Intertek to create pack4ecodesign as a packaging optimization solution for packaging industry professionals, as well as to address packaging end-of-life management. Intertek and Fost Plus collaborated to create this reliable solution to evaluate the environmental performance of packaging in a simplified way, meeting the expectations of industry professionals by integrating the LCA process. Pack4ecodesign is a user-friendly tool that enables experts, non-experts, directors, production managers and packaging designers to better understand the full life cycle of packaging products. Offering guidelines for eco-design, the tool provides users with the environmental impacts of their packaging designs, suggests various methods for improvement and instantly calculates the environmental gain from proposed changes.
Intertek Group plc is one of the world's leading groups specializing in analysis, control and certification of products and systems. Net sales break down by activity as follows:
- control and certification services for consumer goods (63.4%): textiles, footwear, toys, stationery, household appliances, consumer electronics, information and communication technology products, and products from the automotive, aerospace, lighting, construction, renewable energy and healthcare industries. Also, the group is developing an activity to monitor the certification of international standards;
- development of quality assurance solutions for the industry and infrastructures (25.9%): for the supply chain in the building and construction, renewable energies, oil and gas, petrochemicals, minerals and other industries;
- cargo inspection, analytical evaluation, calibration and technical services to the oil and biofuels industries (21.9%);
- monitoring and assessment of petroleum and agricultural products (19.9%). Besides, Intertek Group plc offers inspection services to government system and regulators to support commercial activities, contributing to the movement of goods across borders.
At the end of 2023, the group operated more than 1,000 inspection offices and laboratories in the world.
Net sales are distributed geographically as follows: the United Kingdom (6.5%), the United States (30.7%), China and Hong Kong (17.8%), Australia (5.3) and other (39.7%).
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