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Tetrapak - Looking downstream

Understanding a wider scope of issues, conventionally seen as purely a risk to business, can reduce risks and uncover those which offer opportunity, not only those risks which pose threats. Decisions in design and purchasing, based in part on the analysis of a product’s environmental impacts through its life cycle, continue to increase in a range of sectors, from the equipment industry (ABB, TetraPak) to construction (Outokumpu copper roofing) to personal mobile telephones (Nokia) and computers. Such analyses require multi-player co-operation over the product life cycle.

Tetra Pak conducted a life cycle study and created an ISO certified Environmental Product Declaration for one of its machines, which forms and fills packages. The study incorporates life cycle data on stainless steel, aluminium, glass, silicone, brass, copper, bronze, titanium, PVC and other materials as well as electrical cables and electronic boards. The declaration is given to customers as well as other interested stakeholders.

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