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Consortium
PricewaterhouseCoopers is the consortium leader and coordinator of this project through its subsidiary Ecobilan (France) S.A. (www.ecobilan.com). Ecobilan is PwC’s Center of Excellence for eco-design and environmental impact assessment of products and services. Ecobilan is a 100% subsidiary of PricewaterhouseCoopers and is fully integrated into PwC’s Sustainable Business Solutions network (www.pwc.com/sustainability), a network of environmental and sustainability practitioners worldwide, comprising more than 500 professional in almost 40 countries dedicated to providing clients with environmental/sustainability advisory services. Ecobilan SA is recognised world-wide as advanced leader in Life-Cycle-Assessment (LCA) and Life-Cycle-Costing (LCC) services. Ecobilan advises Industry and Government on the environmental performance of products and services. Supported by a number of leading edge environmental analysis and management software tools, Ecobilan provides services, methodologies and tools that promote the integration of environmental performance across the varying functions of an organization.
CODDE (www.codde.fr) is a recognized expertise center on Ecodesign and Environment specialized in electrical and electronic equipments. Created in 2003, CODDE works with electronic trade associations in the building of Life Cycle Inventories of electronic components and developing specific tools for Ecodesign of electronic and electrical appliances such as vacuum cleaners, coffee machines, power tools, music instruments, pumps, switches, motors. Those methodologies based on Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) are also implemented in the Transport sector such as automotive industry and train producers. CODDE diffuses and updates the EIME (Environmental Information and Management Explorer) referential with Life cycle inventories of electronic components. This database has been the most preferred database by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency since 1998 for Computer Display Project. More information on the EIME referential could be consulted on the European Platform on LCA CODDE is also well known as expert on the EuP Preparatory Studies lead by BIO Intelligence Service or the Fraunhofer Institute – IZM and PricewaterhouseCoopers on the Lot 4 Imaging Equipment, the Lot 5 Consumer Electronics (TV), the Lot 6 Stand-by and Off-mode losses, the lot 7 Battery Chargers and External Power Supplies, Lot 12 Commercial Refrigerators and Freezers, Lot 16 Laundry dryers.
Since 2001, Vienna-based KERP Center of Excellence in Electronics & Environment has been looking into environmentally sound product development, reuse and recycling in the electronics and automotive sectors. Initially conceived to be an externally funded industrial center of excellence, KERP began to seek financial independence in 2005. Meanwhile, KERP has spun off three subsidiaries – KERP Engineering, KERP Consulting and KERP Research – all of which managed to establish themselves on domestic and international markets. Three successful spin-offs KERP Engineering has a mission of supporting manufacturers in their efforts to assume responsibility for the end-of-life stage of their products, including disassembly, recycling and disposal. To meet this goal, the company has developed an innovative software tool which greatly facilitates environmentally sound product design. Only recently, the well-known producer Hewlett-Packard officially recommended this product as their tool of choice for recycling-oriented product development. The simulation software is already in use at Magny Steyr and Electrolux. The Center’s third subsidiary, KERP Consulting, is involved with EU Directives relevant to the electronics and automotive sectors, i.e. the RoHS, WEEE, ELV, EuP, REACH and Battery Directives, and their various forms of implementation, as applicable in each Member State of the Union. As of present, the consulting firm’s client base includes major companies, such as AKG Acoustics, Artesyn, HP, Kapsch and Honda. |
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