Build Sustainability Into the Formulation,
Not a Separate Report
Because the formulation and bill of materials live on one record, your sustainability profile, restricted substances, recycled and bio-based content, and a cradle-to-gate carbon footprint, stays current from the recipe and updates when it changes. So you reformulate to a target instead of reporting after the fact.
Deployed by enterprise R&D and innovation teams:
A Sustainability Report Written After the Fact Cannot Change the Product
ESG data usually lives in spreadsheets assembled after a product is formulated, disconnected from the recipe that drives it. By the time a restricted substance, a low recycled-content number, or a carbon figure surfaces, the product is locked and changing it means starting over. Because Uncountable calculates the sustainability profile from the formulation and the bill of materials, it is current as you formulate, so you can screen, measure, and reformulate to a target before the product ships.
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Sustainability, From Profile to Reformulation
One profile, always current
- Bio-based content, carbon footprint, cost, VOC, and gloss for AquaShield 200 (rev 14).
- All rolled up from the formulation and BOM.
- Change a raw material and the numbers move with it, and any restricted material flags automatically.
Screened as you formulate
- Every material is checked against restricted-substance and regulatory lists as the recipe is built.
- The legacy APEO surfactant flags under REACH Annex XVII.
- The rest of the materials stay clear.
See every product affected
- Where-used lists every product and batch that relies on the flagged material.
- Each shows the cost and margin impact of switching to the bio-grade.
- You see the full trade-off before committing to the change.
Measured against spec
- Recycled content, carbon footprint, VOC, and gloss are measured against the assigned sustainability spec.
- Each result is read straight off the live record.
Reformulate to a target
- AI Suggest raises recycled content past 40% while holding gloss at 85 or above.
- Candidates come straight from the optimization engine, ranked against your constraints.
Before and After Uncountable
Without Uncountable
With Uncountable
Why ESG Built Into the Platform Pays Off
Sustainability is a property of the formulation.
Screen, measure, and design against it on the same record your team already formulates on. Structure first, AI second.
FAQs
It calculates a product's sustainability profile from the formulation and bill of materials: restricted-substance screening, recycled and bio-based content, and carbon footprint, all on the same record as the recipe, so the profile stays current as the formulation changes.
Recycled and bio-based content roll up from the materials on the record, marked as supplier-declared or modeled with the source captured. The carbon footprint is a cradle-to-gate estimate calculated from recognized emission-factor datasets and the process on the record, so a change to the recipe updates the profile automatically. It is a screening estimate to guide reformulation, not a certified ISO 14040/14067 life-cycle assessment; exact methodology and datasets are confirmed during setup.
Yes. Materials are screened against restricted-substance and regulatory lists, including REACH SVHC, RoHS, PFAS restrictions, and the ECHA SCIP database, plus US regimes such as TSCA and California Proposition 65, and against your own banned and watch lists, so a flagged material surfaces during formulation rather than in a later compliance review. Exact list coverage is confirmed during setup.
Yes, using Uncountable's AI Suggest capability. Set a target for recycled content, footprint, or a restricted substance and reformulate against it alongside the performance specs, with candidates surfaced under your constraints. Available with the Gen AI module.
Yes. Material declarations and sustainability summaries are generated from the live record, so they reflect the current formulation and do not need to be rebuilt by hand for each request.
