What is MÅLBAR?
MÅLBAR is a powerful screening tool designed to make complex Life Cycle Screenings accessible and doable for every company. Founded by passionate furniture and design specialists Anders Koefoed and Jakob Aaen, MÅLBAR aims to simplify the process of measuring climate impact on products. The tool is user-friendly on the outside but packed with detailed, complex data on the inside. It complies with the EU’s Product Environmental Footprint (PEF) standard, allowing companies to measure the environmental footprint of industrially produced products with confidence. Beyond just measuring, MÅLBAR offers a customised total impact solution that helps businesses analyze the climate impact of their entire value chain, providing a full overview of emissions and enabling strategic decision-making based on transparent data.
Main Benefits of Using MÅLBAR
Here’s what makes MÅLBAR stand out:
- Accessible online Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) tool with vast, trustworthy databases
- Compliance with EU’s PEF standards ensuring reliable and comparable results
- Ability to measure climate impact on single products and entire value chains
- Insight into materials, production methods, logistics, and transportation emissions
- Supports companies in setting real, transparent targets based on data
- Helps businesses communicate sustainable actions effectively
- Assists in meeting EU’s Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) requirements
The Material Pyramid for Furniture and Design
Developed in close collaboration with the Royal Danish Academy for Architecture, Design and Conservation, the Material Pyramid is a dialogue tool created to simplify discussions about the climate impact of materials. It’s not about giving final answers but about establishing a common language that sparks reflection and guides informed decisions early in the design process—where the potential for impact is biggest. This pyramid supports education, design practice, and business by making it easier to talk about and understand material choices and their environmental consequences.
How MÅLBAR Helps Companies Measure
Measuring and calculating trustworthy climate impact is becoming an essential skill for companies today. MÅLBAR’s tool makes this accessible to everyone, no engineering degree needed. It’s an online LCA tool packed with data from huge, reliable databases, delivering results that meet PEF standards and legislation. This means companies can confidently compare their product screenings with others, knowing the data is solid and standardized. It’s about empowering businesses to take control of their environmental footprint through accurate measurement.
Reducing Environmental Impact with MÅLBAR
MÅLBAR isn’t just a calculator—it’s like a giant encyclopedia filled with transparent data covering every phase of a product’s life cycle. Users can compare materials, production methods, and locations, gaining insights into their own and their suppliers’ logistics. The tool even shows how storing products in warehouses or retail spaces affects climate impact, and how different transport methods, routes, and distances influence emissions. This knowledge is gold when designing new, more responsible products aimed at a better future.
Project Impact and Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
- SDG 12: Responsible Consumption and Production
- SDG 13: Climate Action
- SDG 9: Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure
- SDG 17: Partnerships for the Goals
Communicating and Reporting Sustainability
MÅLBAR helps companies avoid greenwashing by providing solid data that supports genuine sustainable actions. When a company reevaluates its core products and makes responsible changes, it can showcase these improvements and inspire others. Plus, with the EU’s Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) expanding reporting requirements across entire value chains, MÅLBAR’s screening tool offers answers to many mandatory parameters. This makes it easier for companies to provide consistent, relevant, and reliable sustainability information, meeting new regulations head-on.
