Together for Transparency: Sustamize x Tset Connect Cost Engineering with Product Carbon Footprints

Uniting Cost Engineering and Carbon Footprints: Sustamize x Tset for Smarter, Sustainable Decision

Cost engineering has become a cornerstone for industrial companies striving to balance competitiveness and efficiency. By providing precise product cost calculations, it enables organizations to optimize resources, manage risks, and secure margins in highly competitive markets. Yet the landscape is shifting: with rising regulatory demands such as the EU’s Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM), the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD), and the upcoming Digital ProductPassport (DPP), costs can no longer be evaluated without considering the carbon impact. CO₂ emissions are no longer just an ecological issue, they directly influence financial performance and compliance.

This is why Product Carbon Footprint (PCF) calculation has become the logical extension of cost engineering. Tset, a long-standing expert in cost engineering and provider of advanced product cost calculation software, recognized this need early on. To integrate this dimension, Tset evaluated data quality, methodological robustness, and transparency in the market. The result: sustamize emerged as the ideal partner, providing continuously updated, certified, and high-quality CO₂e data. Together, Tset and sustamize offer a solution that unites cost and carbon transparency, enabling companies to design products that are both economically efficient and sustainable.

One Framework for Cost and CO₂: The Unique Strength of the Sustamize x Tset Partnership

The partnership between Tset and sustamize combines highest cost transparency with reliable CO₂ data, creating a foundation that goes far beyond traditional cost analysis. Tset contributes its proven expertise in precise product cost calculation and a powerful software architecture designed for industrial use. Sustamize, in turn, adds a uniquely comprehensive and bottom-up CO₂e database that makes it possible to translate product data into both cost and emission information in one consistent framework.

With more than 7 million emission factors covering thousands of assets — including over 3,200 metals, 1,000 composites, and 160 polymers — sustamize provides an unparalleled level of granularity. Each dataset is scientifically validated, standardized, and fully aligned with recognized standards such as the GHG Protocol and ISO 14067, ensuring audit-ready compliance for customers. This level of quality and transparency is what makes sustamize the ideal partner to enrich cost engineering with accurate, actionable carbon data.

By combining these strengths, Tset can now support its customers in turning product data into holistic cost and CO₂ insights. From early-stage product development to supplier selection, companies can calculate, compare, and optimize both financial and environmental dimensions across the entire product lifecycle. The result is a seamless workflow where cost and emissions optimization go hand inhand — enabling better, faster, and more sustainable decisions.

Unlocking Clear Benefits: Cost and CO₂ Insights Across the Product Lifecycle

Customers such as industrial companies and manufacturers benefit from our partnership because they aim to make their products not only economically efficient but also environmentally responsible. They come from a wide range of industries — from machinery and automotive suppliers to medical technology, aerospace, electronics, and consumer goods.

What unites them is a shared ambition: to embed cost and CO₂ transparency across all development and procurement processes. Indoing so, they unlock clear benefits:

• Unified master data for both cost and emissions, centralized in one place.
• Access via REST-API to all calculation-relevant company data, seamlessly integrated into existing IT systems.
• Smart queries that always deliver the most relevant dataset for each application.
• Combined insights on emissions and price information for materials, energy, and other resources.
• Data quality and timeliness: databases updated at least twice a year and continuously expanded.

For customers, this means immediate value: costs and CO₂ emissions become transparent, optimization potential becomes visible, and decisions can be made based on facts.

Conclusion: Empowering Companies to Optimize Costs and Sustainability Together

The collaboration between sustamize and Tset goes far beyond a simple technical integration, it represents a strategic advancement in sustainable product development. By combining Tset’s expertise in cost engineering with sustamize’s comprehensive, certified, and continuously updated CO₂e data, companies can now evaluate economic and environmental performance in parallel, rather than in isolation.

In today’s landscape, where CO₂ emissions carry both ecological and financial consequences, organizations need to make decisions that are informed, actionable, and forward-looking. This partnership equips companies to identify cost and carbon hotspots early in the product lifecycle, compare alternatives with precision, and implement optimizations that maximize both profitability and sustainability.

The result is end-to-end transparency, smarter decision-making across development, procurement, and supplier management, and a foundation for long-term success. By embedding cost and carbon considerations into the core of product engineering, businesses can not only meet regulatory requirements such as CBAM, CSRD, and the Digital Product Passport, but also strengthen their competitive position while driving measurable sustainability impact.

The result: greater transparency, smarter decisions,and long-term success.

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