Case Study: 3M accelerates portfolio-scale sustainability data with Makersite

3M scales sustainability data across tens of thousands of products with Makersite

3M, a global manufacturing company, faced a significant challenge in scaling its delivery of product-level sustainability data. Customer requests and new regulations demanded data for entire portfolios, far exceeding the capacity of their manual Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) process. To address this, 3M partnered with vendor Makersite to find a fundamentally different, automated solution.

Makersite provided a platform that automated the translation of 3M's internal data into LCA inputs, enabling a shift from individual assessments to enterprise-level coverage. This solution allowed 3M to accelerate from dozens of assessments per year to targeting tens of thousands of products. The results made sustainability data accessible across the organization, freeing specialist teams from acting as intermediaries and allowing business units to access data directly for internal innovation and external reporting.

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