FATER and Eco-design Tool
Company Size
1,000+
Region
- Europe
Country
- Italy
Product
- ACE Neoblanc
- Comet
- Pampers
- LINES
- LINES Specialist
- Tampax
Tech Stack
- Sphera’s Sustainability Consulting
- Product Sustainability Software
- Database solutions GaBi
Implementation Scale
- Enterprise-wide Deployment
Impact Metrics
- Environmental Impact Reduction
- Innovation Output
Technology Category
- Analytics & Modeling - Digital Twin / Simulation
- Analytics & Modeling - Predictive Analytics
Applicable Industries
- Consumer Goods
Applicable Functions
- Product Research & Development
- Quality Assurance
Use Cases
- Digital Twin
- Predictive Maintenance
Services
- Cloud Planning, Design & Implementation Services
- Data Science Services
About The Customer
Fater is an Italian company founded in 1958 by Francesco Angelini. Since 1992, it has been a joint venture between Procter & Gamble and the Angelini Group. The company develops, manufactures and distributes the ACE Neoblanc and Comet brand products in 38 countries worldwide. In Italy, the company has developed the personal care market since the late 1960s. Today, it produces and distributes branded products such as Pampers, LINES, LINES Specialist and Tampax. With ESG and sustainability playing a key role in Fater’s corporate values, the company aims to be a reference point for environmental sustainability. The firm sees this commitment as an opportunity for the development of discontinuous innovations and, of course, as a responsibility.
The Challenge
Fater, a joint venture between Procter & Gamble and the Angelini Group, is committed to environmental sustainability and is constantly striving to understand and improve the environmental performance of its current and future products. The company faced several challenges in its sustainability journey. These included assessing the environmental impact of existing and new products, embedding eco-design in product development, especially in the choice of raw materials and type of packaging, quantifying the share of the use-phase emissions and providing retrospective guidance for product development, and supporting marketing claims with fact-based but easy-to-understand environmental indicators for transparent consumer communication.
The Solution
To advance their sustainability journey, Fater collaborated with Sphera to develop and implement an eco-design tool for many of their product lines in the laundry and cleaning sector. Sphera’s sustainability experts built the eco-design tool based on a robust Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) methodology and using the industry-based data foundation GaBi. The tool now supports Fater’s R&D department by providing insights into emissions hotspots across the product lifecycle and helps to quantify reduction potential. It also enables a solid data-driven communication strategy by translating complex LCA results into language that non-LCA experts can better understand. Sphera’s Sustainability Consulting and Product Sustainability Software and Database solutions GaBi help organizations improve the environmental performance of their products by enabling data-driven decisions during design and planning, advancing product innovation and eco-design, providing access to high qualitative and representative Life Cycle Inventory (LCI) data, and simplifying the complexity of LCA results for transparent stakeholder communication.
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