Our tools

In order to assess the sustainability of our products, technologies and business activities, our company has developed Sustainable Business Value, a tool that enables us to calculate and evaluate our positive and negative impacts on society.
The Sustainable Business Value quantifies all impacts in monetary terms, examining seven dimensions across our entire value chain.  We consider both the usual ESG (environment, social, governance) parameters while also incorporating economic value, ethics, consumer well-being, and digitization into this assessment. The findings gleaned from the assessed data help us drive sustainability across our business operations and position ourselves for future success.

What does this mean in concrete terms? Read about our eyrise liquid crystal windows to find out more, or see our research article on the subject.

Our goal is to make research as environmentally compatible as possible and to minimize adverse impacts on human health. With this is mind, we examine our products and processes to see where and how we can apply the 12 Principles of Green Chemistry, thereby reducing our ecological footprint. Our award-winning web-based tool DOZN™ enables us to evaluate how our products are performing in three categories, namely “improving resource use”, “more efficient use of energy”, and “minimizing human and environmental hazards”. The system calculates a score based on a variety of data such as Globally Harmonized System (GHS) information. This allows us to identify the substances that increase a product’s ecological footprint and then systematically search for an alternative.

DOZN™ is an industry-first quantitative green chemistry evaluation tool. Available in a customer-facing version since 2019, it allows our customers to calculate the green scores of their processes and products so that they can make more environmentally friendly decisions.