02. Jun 2025
New comprehensive LCA-software for flexible polyurethane foam
EUROPUR introduces PUReLCA®, a comprehensive LCA-software designed and developed specifically to calculate environmental impact of flexible polyurethane foam formulations. It enables rapid generation of third-party verified cradle-to-gate Product Carbon Footprint (PCF) or Life-Cycle Analysis (LCA) data for specific formulations, ensuring compliance with LCA standards and ready to be communicated in the supply chain.
Extension to more life-cycle steps (ie cradle to grave) or to more reporting formats (ie Environmental Product Declaration) are envisaged in future steps.
The software provider is Metsims Sustainability Consulting on behalf of EUROPUR. PUReLCA® was developed with the support of LCA experts from EUROPUR member companies to ensure the entire PU foam supply chain can speak the same language, use the same agreed assumptions when making LCA calculations and have the same quality scoring for data accuracy/completeness as used in the wider chemical industry.
Find more info here.
PUReLCA will be introduced at the upcoming Annual Conference 2025 of EUROPUR and EUROMOLDERS this week in Benidorm/Alicante, Spain (registration is closed).
Earlier this year, EUROPUR had published its: Eco-profile of Flexible Polyurethane (PU) Foam (February 2025).
at https://youtu.be/csseq7VM4cQ you'll find a short videoclip.