One Click LCA, a leading provider of life-cycle assessment (LCA) and environmental product declaration (EPD) software, has announced a strategic reseller partnership with Recolight, the operator of one of the UK\u2019s largest Reuse and Recycling Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) compliance schemes.<\/p>\n
The partnership follows the launch of One Click LCA\u2019s Luminaires EPD Generator, a tool to streamline the creation of EPDs for lighting products.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis collaboration with Recolight highlights our commitment to decarbonising the lighting industry. Recolight\u2019s extensive network of luminaire manufacturers will benefit from combined access to world-leading LCA and EPD software, and support and consulting to enable them on their decarbonisation journey.\u201d
\nPanu Pasanen, Founder and CEO at One Click LCA.<\/p>\n
\u201cAn increasing number of specifiers and end-users are now demanding credible environmental metrics as part of their lighting procurement and specification. Those companies that move early will gain a competitive advantage. We are delighted that through our partnership with One Click LCA, we can provide access to industry leading LCA and EPD software that enhances embodied carbon transparency, and helps both specifiers and manufacturers move towards a low carbon future,” said Nigel Harvey, CEO at Recolight<\/p>\n
The strategic partnership will harness the industry-leading position of both One Click LCA and Recolight, to offer expertise, guidance, and world-leading LCA and EPD technology to the lighting industry. By generating LCAs and EPDs, lighting manufacturers will better understand the carbon impact of their products and satisfy increasing specifier and client requirements for achieving green certifications like BREEAM, LEED, Net Zero, and more.<\/p>\n
Recolight is known for its commitment to reuse, the circular economy, and reducing greenhouse gas emissions. By partnering with One Click LCA, Recolight can offer its members and other industry stakeholders access to world-leading software \u2014 already used by several lighting manufacturers \u2014 that simplifies the process of creating accurate and credible LCAs and EPDs for their products.<\/p>\n
Key benefits of the partnership:<\/strong><\/p>\n \u00b7 Simple EPD generation: One Click LCA\u2019s intuitive EPD software automates the process, helping lighting manufacturers to save time and resources.<\/p>\n \u00b7 Market differentiation & benchmarking: EPDs will help lighting manufacturers stand out in a competitive market by showcasing their products\u2019 environmental performance.<\/p>\n \u00b7 Meeting customer demand: With EPDs, lighting manufacturers demonstrate their commitment to reducing carbon, meet green procurement standards, and attract sustainability-focused customers.<\/p>\n \u00b7 Expert guidance: Recolight and One Click LCA\u2019s understanding of the lighting industry will provide support and guidance to companies helping them cut through the complexity of environmental metrics.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u201cThe agreement with OneClick LCA is another great example of the Recolight team\u2019s commitment to supporting and facilitating action on sustainability within the lighting industry,” said Andreas Adam, chair of the Recolight board and Global Sustainability Manager Lighting at LEDVANCE.<\/p>\n \u201cIt is great to see Recolight taking a lead on such an important issue. Properly calculating embodied carbon and other key environmental metrics is vital for our sector, as we help our customers move towards net zero,” added Steve Meadows, Director at Recolight and Services & Operations Director at Signify.<\/p>\n \u201cThe agreement with One Click LCA is a really positive step for Recolight and the lighting industry. It creates the ideal conditions to expand the use of LCAs and EPDs in our sector, making credible environmental performance data more widely available,” commented Stephen Bell, Services, Director at Recolight and Transformation & Compliance Director at Zumtobel.<\/p>\n \u201cI am delighted that Recolight has taken this step. It builds upon Recolight\u2019s success in encouraging action on the circular economy, through webinars, and the Circular Lighting Live and Net Zero Lighting conferences,” said Andrew Clark, Director at Recolight and Financial Controller at Feilo Sylvania.<\/p>\n \u201cThe agreement between Recolight and One Click LCA will help Recolight members, and other lighting companies, to ensure they are not left behind as the sector moves forward with sustainability initiatives and objectives,\u201d commented Steven Reed, Director at Recolight and Commercial Manager at Trilux Lighting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" One Click LCA, a leading provider of life-cycle assessment (LCA) and environmental product declaration (EPD) software, has announced a strategic reseller partnership with Recolight, the operator of one of the UK\u2019s largest Reuse and Recycling Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) compliance schemes. The partnership follows the launch of One Click LCA\u2019s Luminaires EPD Generator, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21656,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-industry-news","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/ewnews.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/One-Click-LCA-black-text.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewnews.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewnews.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewnews.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewnews.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewnews.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21655"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ewnews.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21655\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21657,"href":"https:\/\/ewnews.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21655\/revisions\/21657"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewnews.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewnews.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewnews.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewnews.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}