Our LCA tool can guide your choice of coffee machine
We want to save our customers time, money and help them consider the impact of their equipment.
Our vision is to minimize the environmental impact of our coffee machines by influencing our manufacturers’ designs.
We are already heading on our journey – Our Fusion range of coffee machines are built in factories where the electricity comes from wind farms. Using more renewable energy is another step on our journey supporting Nestlé’s commitment to reaching Net Zero by 2050.
We’re working with manufacturers to reduce their use of virgin resources, improve their machines’ energy efficiency and delay their obsolescence.
Lifecycle assessment tool
We have developed an innovative Lifecycle Assessment Tool to help advise our customers on machines in terms of their emissions, water usage, impact on resources, ecosphere and land use.*
The Tool** takes into consideration the number of employees you have, how many cups per day they consume, what type of cup you use and which type of machine you serve coffee from. It will even show an estimated projected energy bill for the year and any estimated carbon efficiency savings in easy-to-understand equivalent terms, like kilometers driven in an average car.
Our Lifecycle Assessment Tool (based on ISO standard 14044:2006) contains the data for European countries and North America, Latin America and Asia – so customers can be sure that the information is tailored precisely for their region. Soon, our Tool will be able to tell customers the estimated grams of CO2e that went into making each cup, and much more.
Extending our machines’ lifespans
Maintenance can extend our machines’ lifespans.
With the support of our expert workshops we will soon be able to double or, in some cases, even triple the life of many of our machines.
Connected coffee machines
Today, we’re working on connected machines so they become part of the “Internet of Things”.
A SIM card in the machine connects it to our technicians and sends us a telemetry report every day. This enables us to keep machines working at optimum efficiency with the support of our customers. We may contact our customer with a simple suggestion like emptying the drip tray, which could avoid something more serious going wrong in the future. Or if something more major happens, the machine can “tell” our technicians what’s gone wrong, and what parts they will need to bring to fix it.
This saves time investigating, and downtime while the machine is out of action.
Machines that learn from customers
Tomorrow, more of our machines will have Artificial Intelligence, and will be able to “learn” customer behavior over the week so they can operate best when in high demand.
They might figure out that no one at your organization wants a cup of coffee between 9pm and 4am, so they’ll automatically lower the temperature of their boiler to a minimum during that time. On top of all these savings, we’ll help you make a great-tasting cup of Nescafé that keeps your customers coming back, cup after cup.
* The environmental footprint values given are indicative only, are are subject to change. All results are based on a combination of data sources, including public data, Nestlé data, machine manufacturer data and Quantis data. This means that the life cycle assessment covers all specific Nestlé Professional results regarding coffee, cup and machine from cradle to grave.
** This tool is only accessible by Nestlé employees.