Ultrasim® 3D Sustainability Analysis (LCA) - BETA
Contribute to a more sustainable future
Learn about the environmental footprint of materials and your 3D printed part.
No strings attached!
Product Information:
What is a Life Cycle Assessment (LCA)?
A Life Cycle Assessment is a study that calculates the environmental impact of a product along the value chain. This means a detailed report of every input (e.g. material, energy, consumables, etc.) and output (e.g. waste), that are being used and produced over a product’s life span. These data are gathered across the product’s industry value chain and later cumulated into an emission score. The environmental score can be calculated for a single stage (e.g. Material Production) or several stages (e.g. from Material Production to End-of-Life). The Life Cycle Assessments created by BASF Forward AM focuses on providing emission scores on two stages (1) Raw Material Production and (2) 3D Printing Manufacturing. All LCAs follow the PEF methodology EF 3.0 in line with the ISO Standard 14040 : 2006 and ISO 14044 : 2006 methodology.
Ultrasim® 3D Sustainability Analysis (LCA) Offering
3D printing can help to reduce the overall environmental footprint and contribute to a more sustainable environment. We at Forward AM want to provide as much transparency as possible to fully understand the challenges and potentials. We are working on creating Life Cycle Assessments (LCA) for our products and help you to understand the environmental footprint for a 3D printed part. For this we offer 3 different options to support:
Starter
Material LCA
Premium
Part LCA Service (CO2)
Enterprise
Become a Partner
What you get:
LCA material onepager
CO2 footprint report of 3D printed part
Add your printer
Implement LCA data to your software
What 3D printing materials:
Ultrasint® Powder
- TPU 01
- TPU 88A
- PP 1400
- PA11
- PA11 Black
- TPU 01
- TPU 88A (coming soon)
- PP 1400 (coming soon)
- PA11 (coming soon)
- PA11 Black (coming soon)
- BASF Forward AM Materials
Ultrafuse® Filaments
- PLA
- ABS
- PET
- rPET
- PLA
- ABS
- PET
- rPET
What 3D printing machines:
Ultrasint® Powder
- HP JF 52XX
- SLS printers (coming soon)
Ultrafuse® Filaments
- Ultimaker S5
- FFF printers (extension possible)
- Your printer
Get your Add-on:
- Extended LCA with all 16 impact categories
- Ultrasim® 3D Cost Analysis (TCO)
- Comparison to conventional manufacturing
- Carbon Footprint compensation
What we need from you:
- STL-file of your part
- Input report (production setup)
- 1 hour of your time to understand your problem and derive a solution concept
Price
Free of charge
Starting at 3.500 €
On request
Lead Time
14 days
On request
On request
Ultrasim® 3D Sustainability Analysis (LCA) Offering
3D printing can help to reduce the overall environmental footprint and contribute to a more sustainable environment. We at Forward AM want to provide as much transparency as possible to fully understand the challenges and potentials. We are working on creating Life Cycle Assessments (LCA) for our products and help you to understand the environmental footprint for a 3D printed part. For this we offer 3 different options to support:
