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FATER and Eco-design Tool

Sphera

Technology Category	Analytics & Modeling - Digital Twin / Simulation Analytics & Modeling - Predictive Analytics
Applicable Industries	Consumer Goods
Applicable Functions	Product Research & Development Quality Assurance
Use Cases	Digital Twin Predictive Maintenance
Services	Cloud Planning, Design & Implementation Services Data Science Services
Challenge	Fater, a joint venture between Procter & Gamble and the Angelini Group, is committed to environmental sustainability and is constantly striving to understand and improve the environmental performance of its current and future products. The company faced several challenges in its sustainability journey. These included assessing the environmental impact of existing and new products, embedding eco-design in product development, especially in the choice of raw materials and type of packaging, quantifying the share of the use-phase emissions and providing retrospective guidance for product development, and supporting marketing claims with fact-based but easy-to-understand environmental indicators for transparent consumer communication. Read More
About Customer	Fater is an Italian company founded in 1958 by Francesco Angelini. Since 1992, it has been a joint venture between Procter & Gamble and the Angelini Group. The company develops, manufactures and distributes the ACE Neoblanc and Comet brand products in 38 countries worldwide. In Italy, the company has developed the personal care market since the late 1960s. Today, it produces and distributes branded products such as Pampers, LINES, LINES Specialist and Tampax. With ESG and sustainability playing a key role in Fater’s corporate values, the company aims to be a reference point for environmental sustainability. The firm sees this commitment as an opportunity for the development of discontinuous innovations and, of course, as a responsibility. Read More
Solution	To advance their sustainability journey, Fater collaborated with Sphera to develop and implement an eco-design tool for many of their product lines in the laundry and cleaning sector. Sphera’s sustainability experts built the eco-design tool based on a robust Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) methodology and using the industry-based data foundation GaBi. The tool now supports Fater’s R&D department by providing insights into emissions hotspots across the product lifecycle and helps to quantify reduction potential. It also enables a solid data-driven communication strategy by translating complex LCA results into language that non-LCA experts can better understand. Sphera’s Sustainability Consulting and Product Sustainability Software and Database solutions GaBi help organizations improve the environmental performance of their products by enabling data-driven decisions during design and planning, advancing product innovation and eco-design, providing access to high qualitative and representative Life Cycle Inventory (LCI) data, and simplifying the complexity of LCA results for transparent stakeholder communication. Read More Log in to view content
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Technology Category

Analytics & Modeling - Digital Twin / Simulation

Analytics & Modeling - Predictive Analytics

Applicable Industries

Consumer Goods

Applicable Functions

Product Research & Development

Quality Assurance

Use Cases

Digital Twin

Predictive Maintenance

Services

Cloud Planning, Design & Implementation Services

Data Science Services

Challenge

Fater, a joint venture between Procter & Gamble and the Angelini Group, is committed to environmental sustainability and is constantly striving to understand and improve the environmental performance of its current and future products. The company faced several challenges in its sustainability journey. These included assessing the environmental impact of existing and new products, embedding eco-design in product development, especially in the choice of raw materials and type of packaging, quantifying the share of the use-phase emissions and providing retrospective guidance for product development, and supporting marketing claims with fact-based but easy-to-understand environmental indicators for transparent consumer communication.

About Customer

Fater is an Italian company founded in 1958 by Francesco Angelini. Since 1992, it has been a joint venture between Procter & Gamble and the Angelini Group. The company develops, manufactures and distributes the ACE Neoblanc and Comet brand products in 38 countries worldwide. In Italy, the company has developed the personal care market since the late 1960s. Today, it produces and distributes branded products such as Pampers, LINES, LINES Specialist and Tampax. With ESG and sustainability playing a key role in Fater’s corporate values, the company aims to be a reference point for environmental sustainability. The firm sees this commitment as an opportunity for the development of discontinuous innovations and, of course, as a responsibility.

Solution

To advance their sustainability journey, Fater collaborated with Sphera to develop and implement an eco-design tool for many of their product lines in the laundry and cleaning sector. Sphera’s sustainability experts built the eco-design tool based on a robust Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) methodology and using the industry-based data foundation GaBi. The tool now supports Fater’s R&D department by providing insights into emissions hotspots across the product lifecycle and helps to quantify reduction potential. It also enables a solid data-driven communication strategy by translating complex LCA results into language that non-LCA experts can better understand. Sphera’s Sustainability Consulting and Product Sustainability Software and Database solutions GaBi help organizations improve the environmental performance of their products by enabling data-driven decisions during design and planning, advancing product innovation and eco-design, providing access to high qualitative and representative Life Cycle Inventory (LCI) data, and simplifying the complexity of LCA results for transparent stakeholder communication.

Impact #1	The development and use of an eco-design tool built on the LCA method have defined a way to guide, evaluate and manage the strategic development of Fater’s products in the hygiene and cleaning sector.
Impact #2	Today, the company measures the environmental performance of existing and future products throughout their life cycle, creates and compares potential scenarios, and defines research and development strategies based on the LCA results.
Impact #3	Establishment of transparent, fact-based market communication about the sustainability benefits of products.

Impact #1

The development and use of an eco-design tool built on the LCA method have defined a way to guide, evaluate and manage the strategic development of Fater’s products in the hygiene and cleaning sector.

Impact #2

Today, the company measures the environmental performance of existing and future products throughout their life cycle, creates and compares potential scenarios, and defines research and development strategies based on the LCA results.

Impact #3

Establishment of transparent, fact-based market communication about the sustainability benefits of products.

Benefit #1	Quantitative, reliable comparison between different product generations based on trusted scientific methodology
Benefit #2	Scenario analyses of environmental performance over the entire life cycle for different product groups

Benefit #1

Quantitative, reliable comparison between different product generations based on trusted scientific methodology

Benefit #2

Scenario analyses of environmental performance over the entire life cycle for different product groups

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FATER and Eco-design Tool

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