Developing products and services for the future The continued focus on environmental issues in corporate governance, corporate social responsibility, customer expectations, and new regulations signal a clear opportunity to gain competitive advantage by designing better products and services.

By combining our technical, business and strategic capacities with your comprehensive knowledge of your products, we seek to help you achieve:

• Increased competitiveness
• Reduced risk, cost & liability
• Improved resource efficiency
• Focused product innovation
• Better stakeholder relations
• Increased employee motivation and retention

Let Ciba Expert Services assess your policies, programmes, systems, and practices against your products and services, to ensure that they, along with you, move towards sustainability.

Management Support and Systems

To ensure continuous management of product environmental risks, innovation and increased brand value, management support and systems need to be in place to encourage this. Without processes that ensure that environmental considerations are integrated into the day to day work processes, even the best of intentions does not always ensure that company focus also includes environmental issues. Let us help you to:

• Assist in developing product environmental policies
• Integrate enviromental aspects into your product development, procurement and marketing processes and help you implement best practice
• Integrate eco-design principles into your management systems, and
• Develop environmental product performance indicators and targets

Environmental Product Analysis

To identify potential risks and opportunities for improvement and innovation, the key issues, such as resource use, energy consumption, toxicity, greenhouse gas emissions, end-of-life, and waste, must be measured. Utilise our material knowledge, and eco-design and life cycle assessment capabilities to:

• Identify significant environmental impacts along the life cycle of your products and services;
• Climate change and greenhouse gas evaluation;
• Recycling and waste management assessment; and
• Energy and water management assessment

Supplier Engagement

Opportunities for improving the environmental impacts of your products and managing environmental risks can only be identified with a thorough understanding of your supply chain. We can work with you to:

• Conduct initial environmental analysis of your supply chain, including material analysis; and
• Develop supplier management and training programmes.

Product Design & Innovation

Your product designers need to understand how a product impacts on the environment in order to make informed decisions. Let us help you incorporate eco-design in your company by:

• Assist you in implementing eco-design principles into your existing product development processes;
• Develop eco-design guidance and checklists for your product or packaging developers to use in their daily work; and
• Provide you with the tools to assist you develop truely sustainable products.

Product Marketing & Communication

Corporate image and product brand awareness is as important as ever. We can assist your marketing and sales functions to effectively communicate environmental and sustainability issues to your customers. Let us help you to:

• Develop product environmental profiles and information sheets;
• Develop environmental claims and environmental declarations for your products;
• Assist you obtain eco-labels for your products; and
• Communicate the environmental credentials of your products - both for internal and external purposes.

Ask the experts