ABOUT SIMAPRO: First released in 1990, SimaPro is a proven, reliable and flexible tool used by major industries, consultancies and universities. With users in over 60 countries, SimaPro continues to be the most successful LCA software worldwide, and is used for the assessment of products, processes and services as per ISO 14040 series.

NEWSLETTER:: Its our endeavour to keep the LCA community in India informed about latest developments in the field of LCA. We have started a LCA Newsletter from April,09 that will trace the development of LCA in India. This electronic newsletter will come out every second month. If you want to be among the mailing list of this newsletter contactsupport@simaproindia.com. If you want to contribute to the newsletter please send your article to sunil@simaproindia.com.

TRAINING:Next workshop on 'LCA with Simapro' is expected to be organised in the month of November,2010.This workshop will be dedicated to understanding LCA and performing LCA with SimaPro. The participant will learn the concepts and applications of LCA., data collection, impact assessment and interpretation of LCA results. The participants will be given 'Developer' version of Simapro for a month free of cost to facilitate their learning after the seminar.

CONSULTANCY

Simapro India aims to leverage the expertise and experience of PRe Consultants, Netherlands and its global partners to provide world class customized solutions to Indian industry. Screening LCA is done to find out the important issues from a bunch of issues while Full LCA answers a specific question that is posed before various stakeholders of the company with a fully documented ISO compatible study that may be peer reviewed by an independent reviewer or panel of reviewers and that is why it needs full transparency and a high level of consistency.

Life cycle assessment is one of the key issues in Sustainable development. Sustainability issues are effectively resolved scientifically with the help of life cycle assessment studies. Life cycle assessment or LCA is an approach that analyzes processes, products and services in an attempt to determine the full extent of their environmental impact. Described as a 'Cradle to Grave' approach, LCA looks not only at the 'end result' but examines a process, product or service's impact through every stage of its life. From the extraction of the raw materials through to the processing, manufacturing, distribution, use and disposal, LCA analyzes the resource consumption and environmental impacts associated with each and every phase

SimaPro is world's most widely used life cycle assessment (LCA) software, used by major industries and consultants, research institutes and universities. It allows complex life cycles to be modeled and analysed in a systematic and transparent way. Simapro, the life cycle assessment software can aid corporations in

  • Product design
  • Process design
  • Development of key environmental performance indicators [KEPI]
  • Calculation of carbon footprints
  • Determination of environmental impact of products or services
  • Environmental product declarations
  •  Environmental reporting and many more applications

Simapro India endeavours to provide software Simapro, consultancy and training on scientifically proven method of Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) in cooperation with our principals PRe Consultants, Netherlands and global partners