Environmental performance

Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) & Environmental Communication

Our team of experts supports you by conducting customized LCA studies to assess, compare, and highlight the environmental impact of your products.

OUR EXPERTISE

Communicate credibly about the environmental performance of your products with LCA

Justifying the environmental impact of your products or services is now essential due to:

Clients who value eco-responsibility but are wary of greenwashing
An increasingly demanding regulatory framework
Tenders including strict environmental criteria

Whether to stand out commercially or guide your design choices, Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) is the go-to tool.

Schéma explicatif de l’Analyse du Cycle de Vie

Why use LCA?

Based on a scientific and standardized methodology (ISO 14040 / 14044), LCA assesses the environmental impacts of a product throughout its entire life cycle: from raw material extraction to end-of-life.

The environmental indicators measured by LCA reveal your product’s impact on climate change, ecosystem quality, human health, and resource consumption.

LCA provides a transparent, objective, and credible communication framework — a powerful defense against greenwashing.

Our experts guide you every step of the way

With step-by-step support, we help you:

Understand the methodology
Identify key data
Choose the right impact indicators
Interpret results and limitations

Beyond scientific rigor, our goal is to make LCA useful, actionable, and accessible for your teams: CSR, marketing, engineering, and more.
We turn each LCA into a true decision-making tool.

Tailored deliverables, adapted to your needs

Our studies strictly follow ISO 14040 and 14044 standards. But since every need is unique, we tailor the format of our deliverables to your goals:

ACV complète,
avec un rapport exhaustif des hypothèses et calculs, pouvant être soumis à une revue critique )

Detailed reports
(with or without critical review)

Summary presentations, ready to use

Fiches et déclarations environnementales

Environmental declaration sheets
(FDES, PEF, DEP, PEP) to meet tender requirements

OUR TRAININGS

Life Cycle Analysis (LCA) Training

By learning the fundamentals of LCA during a 3-hour module or through an introduction to an open source LCA calculation tool, you will have the keys to integrating the analysis of environmental impacts over the entire life cycle of your products or services into an eco-design or environmental labeling approach.

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Our expertise and strengths

LCA expertise combined with strong industrial experience

Our experts come from the field: engineers from the industrial world who speak your language and deliver concrete, directly actionable analyses.
As part of the foril Groupe, we have access to a wide network of engineers and accurate sector-specific data, enhancing the reliability of our analyses.

fortil

Energy, defense, naval, rail...

Albert&Co

Procurement

SystemeC

Biotech

F. A. Q

Do you have any questions?

FAQ Analyse de Cycle de Vie – questions fréquentes

All projects can benefit from eco-design—whether products, services, or events—by being redesigned to reduce their environmental impact. LCA also highlights dependencies on critical resources, helping to adapt to a context of growing scarcity.

LCA tools assess your product’s impact across more than 16 environmental indicators, including climate change contribution. It allows for calculating a carbon footprint, but also goes further—revealing impacts on ecosystems, human health, and resource depletion.

A simplified LCA uses a less detailed inventory and generic data to quickly identify 'hot spots', useful in eco-design.

A complete LCA, which takes more time, complies with ISO 14040/14044, includes a thorough and specific inventory, and offers greater scientific robustness. It is required for regulatory reports, environmental labeling, or strategic decisions.

The duration varies depending on the type of study (complete, simplified, comparative, with or without critical review), the system’s complexity, and the availability of client data.

For example, a full LCA for a standard product typically takes around two and a half months to complete, including modeling, results analysis, report production, and critical review.

NUMTECH uses two tools depending on the need: SimaPro and openLCA when full modeling is required.

In addition to open-source databases, NUMTECH uses the Ecoinvent database, which provides detailed data on over 20,000 industrial, agricultural, and energy processes, with numerous geographic variants.