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As automakers accelerate toward ambitious sustainability goals, advanced materials and high-performance textiles company (West Bridgewater, Mass., U.S.) is delivering visibility into the true environmental impact of automotive and industrial textile products through the launch of its life cycle assessment (LCA) solution Shawmut Insights.

Developed in-house and designed specifically for textile markets, Shawmut Insights is capable of modeling product-specific, cradle-to-grave impacts — from raw materials to end of life — across the company’s full range of warp knit headliner composites, laminated fabrics and other high-performance textile systems.

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“Designers and engineers can explore how each material choice — down to the fiber source or lamination configuration — affects environmental performance,” says Nicholas Hammond, product sustainability and compliance manager at Shawmut. “Shawmut Insights was built for flexibility and granularity. It allows us to trace every material flow through our supply chain and pinpoint the exact drivers of environmental impact at each stage of a product’s life cycle.”

With precise, verified data, automotive OEMs and Tier 1 suppliers can now measure and report Scope 3 greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from Shawmut products with greater confidence, supporting corporate sustainability disclosures and material selection decisions that align with evolving ESG requirements.

Shawmut Insights adheres to ISO 14040:2006 and ISO 14044:2006 standards and is aligned with the Product Category Rules (PCR) for nonwoven fabrics and fabrics. Impact Assessment outputs follow EPD EF 3.1 and include four measurements of global warming potential (GWP), providing consistent and transparent reporting across all evaluated products.

To ensure full credibility, Shawmut’s background model and comprehensive LCA report were reviewed by an independent U.S. sustainability consulting firm, verifying conformance with these standards.