Led by EurA AG, the AID4GREENEST sustainability team has conducted a comprehensive cradle-to-gate environmental assessment of the project’s large steam turbine shaft, benchmarking its performance against leading industrial standards.
The analysis spans the entire production chain, applying a two-tiered benchmarking framework: a product-level comparison aligned with European Environmental Product Declaration (EPD) practices, and a process-level validation against key steel industry performance indicators.
Two distinct manufacturing scenarios were evaluated (integrated production versus an external processing configuration) to assess their environmental implications.
The results reveal that even advance-stage production decisions can profoundly influence the product’s overall environmental footprint, underscoring the strategic role of process integration in sustainable manufacturing.
These findings deliver actionable insights for optimising production strategies, directly supporting AID4GREENEST’s mission to pioneer more efficient, lower-impact steel component manufacturing.