HVEG Group has partnered with Carbonfact to strengthen its environmental data capabilities across the organisation. As customer expectations grow and European regulations evolve, companies in the apparel and lifestyle sector increasingly need reliable and verifiable data on the environmental impact of their products and operations.
Carbonfact is a specialised environmental data platform developed for apparel, footwear, accessories, and lifestyle products. By implementing the platform, HVEG is taking an important step towards managing environmental data in a more structured, consistent, and scalable way across the group.
Why environmental data is becoming essential
Customers are asking more detailed questions about the environmental impact of the products they buy. Requests for product carbon footprints, emissions data, or environmental information for tenders and questionnaires are becoming increasingly common.
The challenge of fragmented data
Providing clear answers to these questions is not always straightforward. Environmental information is often spread across different systems and teams, and compiling the right data can require significant manual work. By centralising this information through Carbonfact, HVEG can work with a single, consistent data foundation across the organisation.
What Carbonfact enables
The Carbonfact platform allows companies to collect environmental data in one place and translate that information into clear insights. The system calculates product and company carbon footprints, monitors performance over time, and enables teams to share consistent and audit-ready information with customers and partners.
For HVEG, this means environmental insights can be generated both at product level and across the group. This not only improves transparency, but also ensures that data is calculated using consistent methodologies across business units.
Supporting everyday business
Better environmental data does more than support reporting. It also helps teams across the organisation work more efficiently.
Sales teams can respond faster to customer questions and tender requests. Product and merchandising teams gain clearer insights into the environmental impact of materials and products, while procurement teams can compare sourcing options using consistent data. By reducing manual spreadsheet work and automating calculations, Carbonfact helps simplify processes that previously required significant time and coordination.
Preparing for future requirements
Environmental reporting requirements are expanding rapidly in Europe. Regulations such as the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD), the French Eco-Score, and the upcoming Digital Product Passport will require companies to manage environmental information in a more structured and transparent way.
By partnering with Carbonfact, HVEG is preparing for these developments while also strengthening its ability to respond to customer requests for environmental data.
Building on earlier work
The partnership builds on earlier work within HVEG to better understand product-level impacts through Life Cycle Assessments (LCAs). With Carbonfact, these insights can now be integrated into a broader data platform that supports product footprints, company emissions, and reporting requirements in one system.
With this step, HVEG Group is strengthening its ability to work with environmental data across the organisation, helping the company respond to both customer expectations and regulatory developments with greater clarity and confidence.
For further information, please contact Lydia de Fluiter, Executive Assistant at HVEG Group, at [email protected]
