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Manufacturing sits at the centre of global emissions, responsible for roughly 21% of global CO₂. In Europe, CSRD requires large manufacturers to disclose environmental, social and governance data following ESRS standards. Supply chain regulations mean your clients are also asking for your data to calculate their own Scope 3. ISO 14001 and ISO 14064 certifications are increasingly required in procurement. EcoVadis scores influence supplier selection. For manufacturers, ESG has moved from corporate communications to the operations department.

Only if you exceed both new thresholds: more than 1,000 employees and more than €450 million in net turnover. Those companies report from financial year 2027. Many mid-sized manufacturers that were preparing for CSRD now fall outside the direct obligation. That rarely means the work disappears: large customers still in scope need supplier data for their own Scope 3, and procurement questionnaires do not wait for a legal threshold. Dcycle tracks the transposition in each Member State and updates the framework templates, so you report what is actually required of you.

Dcycle is designed for complexity. You create a structure that mirrors your organisation, plants, business units, countries, and each site tracks its own energy consumption, fuel usage, production volumes, waste and water data. The platform applies location-specific emission factors (electricity grid mixes vary by country), consolidates everything upward, and lets you report at any level: per site, per division, or at group level. Full traceability means you can drill down from a corporate number to the individual invoice that generated it, including the total amount and currency for electricity, gas, and water invoices.

Most manufacturers have hundreds or thousands of suppliers, from raw material providers to outsourced process partners. Dcycle's supplier engagement portal sends structured data requests, provides guided templates for different material categories, and validates responses against recognised emission factor databases. You get a real-time dashboard showing which suppliers have responded, where data quality is strong, and where gaps need attention. This turns Scope 3 from an estimate into a measured, auditable number.

Yes. Dcycle performs product-level Life Cycle Assessments (LCA) aligned with ISO 14040/14044. You can assess the environmental impact of individual products from cradle to gate: covering raw materials, manufacturing processes, energy consumption and waste. This is increasingly required for Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs), for responding to client sustainability questionnaires, and for substantiating any environmental claims under the EU Green Claims Directive.

If you import steel, aluminium, cement, fertilisers, electricity or hydrogen into the EU, the Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism requires you to report the embedded emissions of those goods and, in the definitive regime, to surrender certificates for them. The data CBAM asks for is the same data your carbon footprint already needs: supplier-level production routes, energy inputs and process emissions. Dcycle collects it once through the supplier portal and structures it for both obligations rather than running two parallel exercises.

They came because they had a deadline they couldn't meet with spreadsheets: a client demanding Scope 3 data, a CSRD reporting obligation, an EcoVadis assessment, or an ISO certification audit. What they found was a platform that consolidates production data, energy consumption, supply chain emissions and regulatory reporting into one system. The time reduction was dramatic: what took months of manual data gathering now flows continuously from existing operational systems into verified, audit-ready reports.

Most manufacturers already hold the raw numbers somewhere: energy invoices in the ERP, production volumes in the MES, waste tickets in a spreadsheet the plant manager keeps. Dcycle connects to those sources instead of asking you to re-enter them, through API integrations, flat-file imports and guided templates for the data that only exists on paper. A typical multi-site rollout starts producing consolidated numbers within the first weeks, and every following period costs less because the connections stay in place.

The EU Battery Regulation requires carbon footprint declarations for EV batteries. Dcycle collects manufacturing data, applies the correct emission factors for each material and process, and generates the carbon footprint calculation aligned with the regulation's methodology. The platform also supports battery passport data requirements.

It changes the shape of the request rather than the content. Until now an OEM sent a questionnaire once a year and someone assembled an answer from spreadsheets. Catena-X is built for a standing exchange of product carbon footprints between companies, which means the figure per part has to exist continuously and has to trace to something. A number you can produce once, under pressure, in March stops being enough. Dcycle holds the calculation and its evidence together so the same figure can be served repeatedly without being rebuilt each time.