Bioprocess LCA for decisions, not just reports
The first biotech-specific life cycle assessment integrated with process simulation and techno-economics. See how every process parameter change affects your environmental impact, alongside cost and yield, so you make better trade-offs before they’re locked in.
From understanding impact to acting on it
Because your LCA is calculated from your actual process parameters — not generic inventory data — changing the process changes the result. That's what makes it actionable.
Understand your impact
Build your process and see the environmental impact calculated from your actual operating parameters such as your equipment settings, raw materials, energy sources, and production scale.
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See impact per unit operation — which processing steps drive the most emissions, energy, water, or waste
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Identify hotspots by raw material, production stage, transport, and cleaning
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Break down contributions across multiple impact categories, not just greenhouse gas emissions
Act with foresight
The LCA is connected to your process simulation, allowing you to test what-if scenarios and see the sustainability impact of each option before committing resource to experiments.
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Compare alternative process routes and see the sustainability difference side by side
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Test different raw material sourcing, solvents, media, and carbon sources
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Model production in different locations to see energy grid impact
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Evaluate sustainability, cost, and yield trade-offs together and align R&D, operations, and sustainability teams around the same data
Multiple Environmental Impact Categories
Comprehensive environmental assessment beyond carbon — covering the full range of impacts that biomanufacturing processes generate. These include:
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Cradle-to-gate, ISO 14040/44-aligned methodology
GHG emissions
Water Use
Energy Use
Land Use
Freshwater Eutrophication
Marine Eutrophication
Terrestrial Eutrophication
Ozone Depletion
Acidification
Ionising Radiation
Ecotoxicity
Waste
Photochemical Oxidant Formation
Carcinogenic Human Toxicity
Non-Carcinogenic Human Toxicity
Material Resources
Test what-if scenarios in minutes, not months
Because the LCA is connected to your process model, every scenario comparison includes sustainability impact automatically.
Process route comparison
Compare alternative DSP routes and see how each affects GHG emissions, energy, water, and cost side by side.
Raw material & media options
Switch between carbon sources, solvents, or media formulations and see the sustainability impact of each choice instantly.
Production location & energy grid
Model the same process in different geographies. See how energy grid carbon intensity affects your total footprint.
Scale & parameter sensitivity
Understand how changing scale, operating parameters, or equipment configurations affects sustainability outcomes.
CASE STUDY - LIVEN PROTEINS
Comparing production routes for collagen — sustainability and cost side by side
Challenge
Liven Proteins develops plant-based collagen for food and nutraceutical applications. They needed to compare production routes, not just for yield and cost, but for environmental impact of their process
How we helped
We ran 100,000s of simulations to predict production output, techno-economic performance and environmental impact (LCA, energy, waste).
Benefits
We delivered 4 optimised processing scenarios, benchmarked against other production methods with sustainability scenario analyses for ingredient sourcing, transport options and production locations in parallel.
“NWB’s platform has made it much easier for us to weigh up process and sourcing options by putting sustainability and cost side by side. It’s helped us see where the two fit together, and where they don’t, so we can make clearer decisions”
- Fei Luo PhD, CEO
Most LCA tools audit your process. Ours helps you improve it.
Bioprocess software tells you whether a process can run. LCA software tells you the footprint. We show you which option is best — across performance, economics, and sustainability together.
Main Question
Focus
Unit operation detail
Impact Categories
Cost & Sustainability
Process Parameter Level
Biotech-Specific
Outcome
Bioprocess Software
Can it run?
Yield & Feasibility
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Engineering Design
LCA Software
What is the footprint?
Environmental Reporting
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Compliance reports
Which option is best?
Cost + Sustainability + Process
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Decision Dashboards
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Who uses this
SUSTAINABILITY DIRECTORS
Move from reporting to shaping process decisions
Stop waiting for R&D to hand you a finished process to assess. See sustainability impact from the first simulation — and influence which route gets scaled, with data your Board and CSRD auditors can use.
R&D DIRECTORS
See sustainability alongside yield and cost — without extra work
LCA runs automatically from your process model. No separate tools, no LCA specialists needed. Every optimisation cycle shows you the environmental impact of the options you're evaluating.
OPERATIONS LEADERS
Understand the cost of going greener and the carbon cost of not
Compare the economics and sustainability of process changes side by side. Know exactly what a solvent switch or equipment change means for both your budget and your footprint.
NET ZERO & ESG TEAMS
Get process-level granularity for Carbon Accounting and CSRD compliance
ISO 14040/44-aligned methodology with 15+ impact categories gives you the depth that procurement teams, auditors, and regulators expect. Mapped to your actual bioprocess parameters, not industry averages.