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Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) measures the carbon footprint, water use, resource consumption, and environmental impacts of your product across its entire lifecycle — from raw materials and manufacturing to use and end-of-life.
Overview
What Life Cycle Assessment actually tells you
LCA is a systematic method for quantifying the environmental impact of a product, process, or service across its entire life — from raw material sourcing and manufacturing, through distribution, use, and disposal or recycling.
We help organizations move past compliance checkboxes and build LCA into how they design and build. Whether you're benchmarking one product, comparing design alternatives, or preparing an Environmental Product Declaration, our team delivers assessments that are accurate, standards-aligned, and ready for scrutiny.
We work across cradle-to-gate, cradle-to-grave, and cradle-to-cradle boundaries, using recognized software and databases so your numbers hold up internally and externally.
Why HyperCurve
Why run your LCA with HyperCurve
Standards-compliant by default
Every study follows recognised ISO 14040 and ISO 14044 principles, helping results stand up to internal review, customer audits, and relevant requirements.
Cross-industry depth
We apply LCA methodologies across manufacturing, packaging, electronics, construction, energy, automotive, textiles, and food & beverage.
Insight over inventory
We go beyond collecting environmental data to identify hotspots, improvement opportunities, and the factors driving your product's overall impact.
Full lifecycle support
From goal and scope definition through manufacturing, distribution, use, end-of-life, reporting, and review, we support the complete assessment.
Software fluency
Our approach works across leading LCA platforms including SimaPro, GaBi, openLCA, and Umberto.
Disclosure-ready output
We provide clear, structured outputs that can support environmental reporting, product sustainability decisions, EPD development, and relevant disclosure requirements.
LCA Process
How the assessment runs
Six stages, in order — each one feeds the next.
Goal & Scope Definition
We define the study's purpose, functional unit, system boundary, assumptions, and level of detail required so the assessment answers the right question from day one.
Life Cycle Inventory (LCI)
We compile inputs and outputs including materials, energy, water, emissions, transportation, manufacturing processes, waste, use, and end-of-life activities.
Impact Assessment (LCIA)
Inventory data is translated into environmental impact indicators such as global warming potential, acidification, eutrophication, water scarcity, and resource depletion.
Interpretation & Hotspot Analysis
We identify which stages, materials, and processes drive the most environmental impact and where design or process changes can make the biggest difference.
Reporting & Recommendations
Findings are translated into clear reports, visualisations, scenario comparisons, and practical recommendations for decision-makers.
Verification & Critical Review
For studies requiring public disclosure or comparative claims, we prepare documentation and support review for consistency, completeness, transparency, and applicable LCA standards.
Deliverables
What you walk away with
Tools & Standards
Tools & standards we work in
Software
Databases
Standards
Industries
Industries we serve
Manufacturing
INDUSTRIAL EQUIPMENTPackaging
CONSUMER GOODSElectronics
ELECTRICAL COMPONENTSConstruction
BUILDING MATERIALSEnergy
RENEWABLESAutomotive
MOBILITYTextiles
APPARELFood & Beverage
SUPPLY CHAINFAQ
Frequently asked
Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) is a systematic method used to evaluate the environmental impacts of a product, process, or service across its life cycle. HyperCurve provides LCA solutions to help businesses understand environmental performance and make informed sustainability decisions.
HyperCurve supports different LCA scopes, including cradle-to-gate and cradle-to-grave assessments. The appropriate scope depends on the product, project objectives, available data, and the stages of the life cycle that need to be evaluated.
HyperCurve's LCA studies can evaluate environmental impact categories such as global warming potential, water use, acidification, eutrophication, and resource depletion, depending on the selected methodology, data, and study scope.
HyperCurve uses LCA to identify environmental hotspots across materials, processes, and life cycle stages. These insights can support product improvement, material selection, process optimisation, resource efficiency, and more sustainable design and business decisions.
Yes. HyperCurve can structure LCA studies to support relevant Environmental Product Declaration (EPD) requirements and provide the environmental data needed for sustainability reporting and the applicable verification process.
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