Launched in June 2025, PUReLCA® is EUROPUR’s new commercial service for the European flexible polyurethane foam industry.
PUReLCA® is a comprehensive LCA-software designed and developed specifically to calculate the environmental impact of flexible polyurethane foam formulations. The software enables rapid generation of third-party verified cradle-to-gate Product Carbon Footprint (PCF) or Life-Cycle Analysis (LCA) data for specific formulations, ensuring compliance with LCA standards and ready to be communicated in the supply chain.
- Standardising Environmental Reporting – at product level, with consistent approach to scope, waste, logistics, energy, and ingredient data
- Environmental Impact Simulation – assessing foam formulations across 13 impact categories, e.g.: carbon footprint, resource use, emissions…
- Benchmarking & Comparisons – against your own formulations or industry-wide eco-profiles
- Supply Chain Compliant – generating results that meet global LCA standards, ready to be communicated in the supply chain
- Secure & Private – ensuring data protection with private and secure platform and multiple layers of security
- Industry-wide Cost Saving – offering unlimited calculations at a fraction of the cost of traditional LCA services
PUReLCA® was developed with the support of LCA experts from EUROPUR member companies to ensure the entire PU foam supply chain can speak the same language, use the same agreed assumptions when making LCA calculations and have the same quality scoring for data accuracy/completeness as used in the wider chemical industry. Comparison of products or the environmental footprint of different foam formulations can therefore take place by simply looking at the results rather than by comparing various methodologies or assumptions a company may have used when performing their calculation.
Beyond this, PUReLCA® also brings a significant economic advantage to users and allows the flexible PU foam industry to mutualise the cost of environment reporting. The annual subscription is much lower than the cost of performing just one LCA calculation with most third-party service providers – certainly for small companies – and the number of calculations that can be made is unlimited.
This new software provides manufacturers with an easy-to-use, fast, accurate, and third-party-verified way to assess the environmental footprint of their products. The service partner and lead developer of the tool is Metsims Sustainability Consulting, a sustainability consultancy based in the UK with operations in Türkiye.
Access to and use of the PUReLCA® software, as well as the right to reference the PUReLCA® trademark, are subject to the payment of an annual
subscription fee to EUROPUR, starting from 4000 EUR for the first year.
Available across Europe, with preferential subscription fees for EUROPUR and EURO‑MOULDERS members.
For more information:
- Visit www.purelca.eu
- Contact info@europur.org