by Chiara De Grandis | Oct 15, 2026 | Databases
The World Steel Association (worldsteel) is a non-profit organisation and industry association, with members in every major steel-producing country and covering 85% of the world’s total steel output. Since 1996, worldsteel works on its worldwide life cycle inventory...
by Julia Cilleruelo | Sep 3, 2026 | Databases
Since 2005 the European Aluminium industry association collects high-quality data and compiles Life Cycle Inventory (LCI) datasets. These are now available to download for openLCA for free through openLCA Nexus, our market place for LCA data. The datasets provide...
by Julia Cilleruelo | Aug 13, 2026 | Databases
A new version of the Circularity Package has been released after the database and methodology went through a successful third party review by Jim Goddin, co-author of the ISO 59020:2024 for measuring and assessing circularity performance and the Material Circularity...
by Chiara De Grandis | Jul 30, 2026 | Databases
If you read our blog post on getting started with openLCA, you already know that openLCA comes with a great set of resources and features that makes it extremely powerful, flexible and advanced. But how can all of this be useful for universities? On August 18th at 3...
by Ashrakat | Jul 17, 2026 | Databases
Most social risk screening tools work from input-output tables (PSILCA & SHDB) sector-level averages that sit one step removed from the product system you’ve actually modeled. You build a detailed process-level supply chain in ecoinvent, then have to switch...
by Ebyan Rezgui | Jul 10, 2026 | Databases
What’s new in version 3? New BAFU:2025+ESU background database Version 3 uses the BAFU:2025+ESU background database. It is based on BAFU:2025 and has been extended with additional processes required for food-related life cycle assessments and other ESU...
