About SMARAGD
SMARAGD is a digital platform that helps companies adopt sustainable practices through smart technologies. It offers tools for self‑assessment, benchmarking, networking, and training, with a focus on SMEs in the textiles, plastics, and advanced materials sectors. The platform includes digital tools for eco‑design, benchmarking and accessible resources for sustainable product design and circular economy practices.
The project targets key challenges faced by manufacturing companies in the Meuse–Rhine region, particularly SMEs, as they navigate rapid technological change, evolving regulations, and workforce shifts. SMARAGD helps companies remain competitive amid advances such as digitalization and artificial intelligence, the European Green Deal’s sustainability requirements, and a growing shortage of skilled workers due to demographic trends.
SMARAGD provides practical, cross‑border support to help companies adapt their strategies and overcome these challenges. This includes implementing digital technologies to optimize production and developing sustainable materials.
Technology Maturity Assessment: In‑depth evaluations and needs‑and‑gaps analysis to help companies create targeted action plans.
Digital Transition Support: Assistance implementing digital tools to improve processes, reduce resource use, and lower production costs.
Enperas featured on the SMARAGD website
Enperas offers smart and simple environmental footprint calculations using Life Cycle Assessment (LCA). Enperas’ LCA software is featured in SMARAGD’s consulting, testing, and certification sections. Enperas provides the LCA Quadrant Tool and LCA services for environmental footprint analysis and eco‑design of building materials and chemicals.
Enperas’ Product: LCA Quadrant Tool (SaaS) Key features:
Enperas’ Product: LCA Quadrant Tool (SaaS) Key features:
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Calculate product footprints across 19 environmental impact categories.
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Use functionalities for eco‑design and innovation.
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Compare environmental impacts of different production options and identify the highest‑impact categories.
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Advance toward Environmental Product Declaration (EPD) excellence across your product portfolio.
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Reduce CO₂ emissions and make a measurable environmental impact.
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Generate country‑specific EPDs for Europe.
Enperas’ Team goal is to help manufacturers quickly and easily calculate product environmental footprints to support decision‑making and meet market requirements.
LCA Consulting Services Alongside the LCA Quadrant Tool
Enperas offers scalable LCA services, including:
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Developing an LCA roadmap.
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Evaluating your Double Materiality Assessment (DMA).
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Defining material environmental KPIs, and managing, improving, and reporting your environmental footprint in Corporate Sustainability Reporting (CSRD).
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Advising on cost‑effective EPD programs and supporting the preparation and publication of EPDs.
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End‑to‑end guidance from initial assessment to successful EPD publication.
Manufacturing companies
Enperas partners with manufacturers - including building materials (brick, cement, aluminium, foams, etc.) and chemical producers - to calculate product and material environmental footprints using the LCA Quadrant Tool (SaaS) and to produce country‑specific EPDs.
For more information, visit the SMARAGD website.
