Material LCA | Sustainable Brand Platform

MATERIAL LCA

Revolutionizing Textile Sustainability with Material LCA

Build your material environmental impact story through a fully automated Material Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) tool. Make data-driven decisions to gain full control of the environmental performances of all your materials and access batch level environmental performance KPIs.

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Direct applications of a Material LCA for the textile industry

Material Innovation & Ecodesign

Integrating material LCA into early-stage design ensures that sustainability remains a core driver, balancing functional characteristics with environmental impact. By analyzing the full life cycle—from raw material extraction to disposal—LCA identifies key impact areas, enabling designers and engineers to minimize emissions, energy consumption, and waste, fostering truly sustainable innovation.

Process R&D

Material LCA helps optimize manufacturing processes by identifying energy-intensive or high-emission steps in production. By comparing alternative processing methods, it enables technological improvements that reduce resource use, energy consumption, and emissions.

Industrial performance improvement

Material LCA is a key driver of cost efficiency and, and long-term competitiveness. By identifying resources inefficiencies, it enables process optimization, waste reduction, leading to higher profitability. Additionally, LCA facilitates the shift toward circular economy models, fostering innovation in sustainable materials, ensuring businesses stay ahead of future environmental challenges.

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Material LCA in practice

Our Material Lifecycle Assessment enables you to gain full control of the environmental performances of all your processes and to access batch level environmental performance KPIs.

Included features

Use owned and third-party data
Compliance with the PEF and EPD frameworks
Fully integrable with ERPs and other IT systems
Seamless data sharing through Material iD Cards
Intuitive dashboards for data analytics
Material or process comparative analysis
Data export to xlsx or third-party softwares

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How Material LCA can be helpful for brands

Product Passport

Brands face pressure to enhance transparency and accountability due to the Digital Product Passport regulation. The proactiviness of a virtuous supply chain on data collection and sustainability actions help brands to be easier compliant with such regulations.

Ecodesign

Brands have started to move towards the design of low-impact products due to law requirements or own initiative. By leveraging your material impact data you can provide them with the solution they are looking for and gain returns on your sustainability efforts.

Supply chain sourcing

Brands need to invest in low impact supply chains. Gaining in-depth knowledge of your environmental hotspot can be a valuable asset to drive company investments and brand procurement choices increasing their ROSI (return on sustainable investments).

Success Stories From Our Partners

At EMiroglio, the Material LCA tool from SBP is essential to our innovation and ecodesign efforts. It enables us to accurately measure the environmental impact of each yarn, ensuring transparency for our customers and reinforcing our commitment to sustainability. By collaborating with SBP and using its platform, we can precisely calculate our Environmental Footprint and share this data with brands.
_{Stefano Gusi - E.Miroglio}

SBP’s Material LCA module has become an essential tool for Tissés by Tintoria Banelli. It allows us to measure and share the environmental impact of our materials with clients in a transparent and data-driven way. Beyond impact measurement, it serves as a strategic tool for R&D, enabling us to collaborate more effectively with brands in developing innovative, lower-impact textile solutions. With reliable data at our disposal, we can actively support our clients in integrating ecodesign principles into their collections, fostering a more sustainable fashion industry.
For any textile company looking to enhance sustainability efforts and strengthen client partnerships, SBP’s Material LCA module is a game-changer to explore a new approach to producing and monitoring sustainability performances.
_{Francesco Guarna - Tintoria Banelli}