Environmental project, 1099 – Development of cleaner products in Berendsen's international product chains

Development of cleaner products in Berendsen's international product chains

Preface

The intention of this report is to inspire and guide companies to develop cleaner products and bring them on the market. It is the result of a demonstration project carried out in cooperation between Berendsen Textil Service A/S, FORCE Technology and EcoForum to demonstrate with practical experience how cleaner products can be developed in cooperation with suppliers – or the whole value chain.

You do not have to be environmentally concerned to benefit from environmental product development projects. When working with your products, you will probably also find some other improvement options leading to e.g. higher quality or lower costs.

During the project, different communication activities have been carried out to disseminate the experience and good advice developed during the project period. Hence, this report is only a part of the communication, summing up the project and main conclusions. However, the report also includes a short description of the other communication activities.

All the development projects have been carried out on the hygiene product range of Berendsen, but the lessons learnt are universal for environmental product development of products.

Jeppe Frydendal
Head of LCA Center Denmark
FORCE Technology

Søren Mann Andersen
Customer Manager
Berendsen Textil Service A/S