LCA, EPD and sustainability for organisations

A Life Cycle Assessment makes it possible to evaluate the environmental impacts of a product throughout its life cycle, identifying the most significant stages and the potential improvement levers.

Gesteco supports companies in the development of EPD pathways, from data collection and environmental modelling through to the preparation of the technical documentation required for verification by independent bodies.

The objective is to provide companies with a tool that can support product design, procurement processes, access to tenders, qualification with industrial customers and evidence-based environmental communication.

An Environmental Product Declaration (EPD) is a type III environmental declaration compliant with ISO 14025. It is based on LCA methodology and verified by a third party. It provides transparent and comparable information on the life-cycle environmental impacts of products or services.

Not every company needs to start immediately with a full EPD process. In many cases, it is more effective to begin with a preliminary pathway to understand which data are available, which processes have the greatest impact and what level of analysis is most appropriate for the company’s objectives.

Gesteco provides LCA consultancy aimed at mapping products, materials, consumption, suppliers and processes, defining a technical framework that can guide industrial, environmental and commercial decisions.

This service is designed for companies wishing to assess the feasibility of a complete LCA study or prepare for requests from customers, supply chains or tender procedures.

In addition to individual products, companies need to understand and manage the impacts generated by their operational activities.

Gesteco supports organisations in the collection and analysis of corporate environmental data, with particular attention to energy consumption, emissions, waste management, resource use, production processes and indicators useful for reporting activities.

The analysis enables companies to build a consistent data baseline, define realistic objectives, monitor the evolution of their environmental performance and respond in a structured way to requests from stakeholders, customers and supply chains.

An effective sustainability pathway starts with an assessment of the company’s current situation: processes, risks, opportunities, available indicators, regulatory compliance, market requirements and corporate priorities.

Gesteco carries out ESG and environmental assessments to help companies identify the most relevant areas and build an operational plan consistent with their sector, company size and commercial objectives.

The result is an operational roadmap including progressive actions, internal responsibilities, monitoring indicators, technical priorities and guidance for reporting, sustainability statements and data-based environmental communication.

In this way, the sustainability pathway does not remain a declaration of intent, but becomes a measurable, updatable working system that can be integrated into the company’s business strategy.

Sustainability reporting requires a reliable, updatable data system that is consistent with the company’s activities. Even when reporting is not a direct legal obligation, many companies receive ESG-related requests from customers, banks, industrial partners or lead companies within supply chains.

The European sustainability reporting framework has recently undergone simplification through the Omnibus package, which reduced the scope of the CSRD and limited the cascading effect on smaller companies. This makes it even more important to approach sustainability reporting as the construction of ESG data that are useful for the market, rather than as a generalised obligation for all companies.

Gesteco supports companies in the following activities:

• collection, organisation and interpretation of ESG data;
• definition of relevant indicators;
• assessment of any information gaps with respect to the VSME, Voluntary Standard and other voluntary sustainability standards, where applicable;
• development of technical content for sustainability reports, voluntary reports and stakeholder engagement documentation.

Minimum Environmental Criteria (CAM) have an increasing impact on supplies, public procurement and product qualification, especially in the construction, infrastructure, environmental services, industrial supply and materials management sectors.

Gesteco guides companies and designers in interpreting applicable environmental requirements, preparing technical documentation and enhancing the value of available environmental data, including through LCA studies, EPDs, material traceability and circularity indicators.

This support is aimed at reducing documentation-related risks, strengthening participation in tenders and improving the company’s ability to respond to specifications and technical requirements.

Efficient resource management is a strategic issue for industrial companies: waste reduction, material recovery, process optimisation, traceability and enhancement of material flows.

Thanks to its integrated experience in environmental services, waste management, remediation, aggregates and industrial processes, Gesteco supports companies in analysing circular economy opportunities and developing solutions that are both technically sustainable and consistent with authorisation requirements.

This service is intended for companies wishing to assess recovery scenarios, improve resource management or integrate circularity criteria into their processes.

Sustainability requires reliable data, but also internal skills. For this reason, we support companies through training programmes and stakeholder engagement activities designed to clarify objectives, responsibilities and processes.

Training activities may be addressed to management, technical departments, quality, environment, communication, purchasing, sales and other business functions involved in the management of environmental or ESG data.

Communicating environmental performance requires attention, method and consistency between what is claimed and what is documented.

We assist companies in the technical review of environmental content intended for websites, product sheets, reports, commercial presentations and institutional materials, with the aim of making communication clearer, more specific and verifiable.

This service does not replace legal consultancy on environmental claims, but helps companies build messages that are consistent with the available data, analyses and technical documentation.