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Granta for Eco Design and Environmental Regulations

Materials and their processing are central to the impact of products on the environment and human health.

Granta, the leader in materials information technology, provides software tools and data that can play a key role in managing this impact, enabling engineering enterprises to implement eco design and respond to environmental regulations.

Restricted Substances

GRANTA MI:Restricted Substances helps engineering enterprises to respond to REACH and similar regulations. Track the impact of legislation, generate restricted substance reports, design to avoid restricted substances, identify substitute materials.

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Eco Audit and Design

CES Eco Selector enables design for low energy or carbon footprint. Its novel Eco Audit Tool provides a quick and easy means to estimate the eco impact of a product at each point in its lifecycle. Selection software helps to identify materials that minimize this impact.

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Reference Data

Granta's aim is to enable a rational and well-informed response to eco challenges. Such an approach must be underpinned by the right data. Granta's Eco Data Series is a unique source of such data, drawn from or estimated using the best sources currently available.

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The EMIT Consortium

EMIT ConsortiumThe new Environmental Materials Information Technology (EMIT) Consortium is a collaborative project launched by the UK’s National Physical Laboratory (NPL), Granta, and partners including Eurocopter, Emerson Electric, Rolls-Royce, and NASA. It is building on Granta's portfolio of software and data, with a goal of embedding eco design into normal engineering workflows.

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Background Information

Controlling the eco impact of products and meeting environmental and other regulations are now critical success factors for engineering enterprises. Indeed, an effective response to these challenges may become a pre-requisite for business survival in many sectors. Read more about the these problems and how Granta is responding. Find links to relevant products and to our related solutions in areas such as materials data management and integration with engineering design systems.

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Support for Teaching

Sustainable engineering and design has long been a focus for Granta through the pioneering work of Professor Mike Ashby in eco selection, and in the teaching of eco design. Granta provides CES EduPack, the leading software-based teaching resource for materials and processes, to over 600 universities and colleges worldwide. EduPack provides a series of innovative resources for training the next generation of engineers in eco design.

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