Germany, Jan. 22 -- BASF Coatings has launched a new digital solution to calculate the carbon footprint (Product Carbon Footprint, PCF) of its sales portfolio. The solution replaces an internally developed application that BASF Coatings has used for several years to provide reliable CO2 data to customers worldwide. The company now has an agile, real-time, auditable, and globally applicable CO2 data basis for 120,000 sales products. All product?related greenhouse gas emissions, from raw material procurement and transport to energy use in production, are calculated uniformly, consistently, and with system support. This provides the foundation for traceable CO2 accounting, particularly for complex, multi?variant products such as paints with ma...