Helsinki-based startup Biocode has partnered with the Natural Resources Institute Finland (Luke) to introduce digital life cycle assessments (LCA) for participants in the food chain. This collaboration aims to offer both standardized and customized LCA solutions, facilitating the production of eco-friendly food products for both domestic and international food industry firms. Biocode’s expertise in emission calculations complements Luke’s profound understanding of life cycle assessments, allowing for the integration of data from diverse operators along the supply chain. The cooperative effort simplifies continuous environmental impact management and meets growing demands for sustainable business practices and reporting.
In the new innovative service, Biocode’s strong emission calculation application development expertise is combined with Luke’s deep understanding of life cycle assessment. The service makes it possible to sum the results from many individual operators at different stages of the chain.
Luke is responsible for the service’s calculation models, and Biocode is responsible for the digital solution. This Finnish top expertise is now being taken to the world together.
“Continuous environmental impact management must be easy in order to both open up opportunities for new, more sustainable products and businesses. And to meet the growing corporate responsibility reporting needs. By combining our forces with Luke, we are better able to serve the customers and build a more sustainable society together,” says Biocode CEO Ernesto Hartikainen. “It is important to us that the customer can easily calculate the environmental impacts of their own product, with a low threshold. Information enables the making of more sustainable solutions.”
“Luke’s mission is to focus on science, and we are constantly developing, among other things, life cycle assessment methods and practices. Luke has also done pioneering work to promote chained, automated life cycle assessment. Offering calculation models for businesses is a way for us to put research into practice and where it’s really needed,” says Luke researcher Kirsi Usva.
