Lars Martensson

Swedish Life Cycle Center is a center of excellence for the advance of life cycle thinking in industry and other parts of society. Swedish Life Cycle Center is working with research, implementation, communication and exchange of experience on life cycle management. The mission is to improve the environmental performance of products and services, as a natural part of sustainable development. The work within Swedish Life Cycle Center is characterized by openness and trust and is coordinated by close and continuous interaction between academia, applied research institutes, industry and authorities. Our partners are industries and research groups with profound commitment to sustainable development and life cycle thinking. The center has been in existence since 1996. The constellation has varied, but the focus on environmental systems analysis has been preserved. Also the need for an open exchange of information and knowledge between organizations remains. Current partners are Chalmers University of Technology (host of the center), KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences - Dept. of Energy and Technology, Swedish Environmental Protection Agency, AkzoNobel, NCC Construction, SCA, Sony Mobile, SKF, Vattenfall, Volvo Car Group, Volvo Group, IVL Swedish Environmental Research Institute and SP Technical Research Institute of Sweden.