Product sustainability

Sustainability in all stages of a product’s life cycle

An essential element in creating a sustainable world is the design of our products. We assess products’ environmental impact, from production to resume and recycle. We also analyze improvement potentials and we help developing and designing sustainable products:

• Concept development of sustainable products and business models
• Workshops, innovation, and brainstorms on sustainable design
• Life cycle assessments (LCA) – resource consumption throughout the product lifecycle
• Circular economy, business model canvas, environmental impact, biomimicry etc.
• Sensitivity analysis: quick screening of ideas with the largest environmental impact
• Calculation of environmental impact – new products vs. new concepts and technical potential for improvement
• Advising on legislation, regulatory matters, labelling, and certifications:
  – The Nordic Swan Ecolabe
  – EU-Ecolabel
  – LEED
  – LGDB
  – EU Energy Labeling
  – EU Ecodesign
  – EPD (Environmental Product Declaration)

Why choose Viegand Maagøe?

• Experience
  Several years of experience in analyzing a wide range of products across industries ensure high expertise. Furthermore, our documentation enables you to communicate your sustainability across markets all over the world.
• Specialists in products
  We have experts with both extensive technical knowledge of products and their improvement potential. Our team consist of product developers from the industry, environmental engineers, and analysts and policy experts with experience from the European Commission’s Ecodesign projects.
• Creativity and thoroughness
  We are continuously developing new and improved methods to solve our tasks. When a method is chosen, we work in depth and we keep working until the task is solved.
• Distinctive communication
  We take pride in communicating complex content in an understandable manner.