PE INTERNATIONAL supports you in specific environmental requests regarding your metal extraction processes as follows:

• Enabling your company to do energy efficiency analysis that help to support the Kyoto protocol in a long term (e.g. simulation of CO₂ emission release in a long term).

• Enabling your company to benchmark your processes to the Best Available Technology (BAT) and determine the process with the highest energy reduction potential.

• Enabling your company to do benchmarks of process technologies inside your process chain (e.g. different concentrators) to validate technology changes additionally with the environmental point of view.

• Providing a simulation model in the GaBi 4 software tool that enables your company to do fast simulations of technology changes and evaluate the changes in environmental impacts of the production.

• Enabling your company to get knowledge of the indirect environmental impacts of the supply chain for your material production (e.g. auxiliary materials, power generation) which supports the GHG accounting

• Providing a model in the GaBi 4 software, which visualize energy and material flow between all inside operations and strategic alliances of your company.

• Assessing your material production from the environmental point of view by using the life cycle perspective.

Therefore Life Cycle Engineering (LCE) is a useful tool to support the efforts to save the environment. It supports environmental departments as well as research units of companies to detect potential environmental weak points and cost reduction possibilities in a long-term perspective.