What does process information have to do with sustainability reporting in the building materials industry?

No building materials company can currently ignore the sustainability megatrend. A new EU directive is obliging more and more companies to disclose sustainability information. Even if small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are exempt from this directive for the time being, the pressure to act is nevertheless increasing, as companies in the downstream value chain (e.g. construction industry) will increasingly request reliable sustainability information from their suppliers in the future. In the first tenders for construction projects, this is already being requested by the client.

However, construction raw materials companies should not see this as a necessary evil in order to avoid the risk of losing existing customers.

Quite the opposite: generating sustainability information and disclosing it results in enormous competitive advantages, e.g. through higher turnover or in the form of more favorable loans for necessary investments.

How are process optimization and sustainability reporting connected and what are the challenges?

In order to be able to generate reliable sustainability information, you need good quality process data from your entire operation. This is also the starting point for process optimization and thus for increasing efficiency and productivity. Optimized processes therefore also improve your sustainability indicators, which will generate decisive competitive advantages in the future.

Good quality process data from the entire operation is considered the absolute starting point for process optimization and reliable sustainability reporting. Generating this data alone usually presents companies with major challenges, as data from important assests, i.e. from mobile machines & systems and stationary systems, either does not exist at all or is stored separately from each other in so-called data silos. Accessing all this data was previously considered extremely difficult or even impossible.

With the platform solution & retrofit hardware solutions from abaut, you can generate precisely the data from both your production facilities and mobile machines that can be used for process optimization on the one hand and for sustainability reporting on the other. abaut thus combines two topics in one solution and enormously reduces the effort that would otherwise be required on the part of the building materials companies.