Build sustainability into the formulation
Your sustainability profile is calculated from the recipe, not maintained as a separate report. Restricted substances, recycled and bio-based content, and cradle-to-gate carbon footprint stay current as you formulate, so you reformulate to a target instead of reporting after the fact.
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. Your sustainability profile is calculated from the recipe, not maintained alongside it. Change an ingredient and restricted-substance flags, recycled and bio-based content, and cradle-to-gate carbon footprint all move with it, letting your teams hit a target during formulation instead of measuring the gap after launch.
Sustainability, from profile to reformulation
One profile, always current
- Bio-based content, carbon footprint, cost, and VOC for AquaShield 200 (rev 14).
- All rolled up from the formulation.
- Each figure marked as supplier-declared or modeled, with the source captured.
- Change a raw material and the numbers move with it, and any restricted material flags automatically.
- One live profile instead of a spreadsheet assembled after the fact.
- The same product record the formulation, BOM, and QC teams already work from, not a separate ESG system.
- Updates the moment a revision is saved, no re-export or manual refresh.
Screened as you formulate
- Every material is checked against restricted-substance and regulatory lists as the recipe is built.
- Ships with TSCA and California Proposition 65 built in; REACH SVHC, RoHS, and other regional lists import as customer-maintained lists, plus your own banned and watch lists.
- The legacy APEO surfactant flags as TSCA-restricted.
- The rest of the materials stay clear.
- A flagged material surfaces during formulation, not in a later compliance review.
- Screening runs on every revision, not only at initial recipe creation.
- Each ingredient links back to its supplier and specification, so a flag traces to its source.
See every product affected
- Where-used lists every product and formulation version that relies on the flagged material.
- You see every affected product before committing to a swap.
- Nothing depends on manually cross-referencing spreadsheets.
- The swap routes through change control and impact assessment before it ships.
- Covers finished products and the sub-recipes that feed into them, not just top-level formulations.
- The same where-used view used elsewhere in Product Lifecycle, so nothing is missed across suites.
Measured against spec
- Recycled content and VOC are measured, and carbon footprint is calculated, against the assigned sustainability spec.
- Each result is read straight off the live record.
- Recycled and bio-based content roll up from the materials on the record, marked as supplier-declared or modeled.
- The carbon footprint is a complex, cradle-to-gate calculation built on supplier-declared data and recognized emission-factor datasets, a screening estimate rather than a certified life-cycle assessment.
- An out-of-spec result is flagged the same way an out-of-spec QC result is, so it cannot be missed.
- Sustainability specs are set and versioned the same way as performance specs, but gloss and other performance properties stay on the performance spec, not this one.
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.
- Set a target for recycled content, footprint, or a restricted substance and reformulate against it alongside your performance specs.
- The same optimization engine used elsewhere in Uncountable, not a bolt-on tool.
- Every candidate is scored against your existing performance specs, not sustainability targets alone.
- Accept a candidate and it becomes the next formulation revision, on the same review and change-control path as any other change.
What changes when sustainability lives on the formulation
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.
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.
Yes. Materials are screened against restricted-substance and regulatory lists as the recipe is built, with TSCA and California Proposition 65 covered out of the box. REACH SVHC, RoHS, PFAS restrictions, and the ECHA SCIP database import as customer-maintained lists, alongside 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. The sustainability profile sits on the same product record as the formulation and the bill of materials, so it is connected to cost, change control, and the rest of the Product Lifecycle suite, and to the R&D and Quality suites.
Because the sustainability profile and material declarations live on the product record, Uncountable provides the structured product data a Digital Product Passport needs under the EU's ESPR framework. Exact DPP scope and formats are confirmed at setup as the category requirements finalize.
