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Per-part carbon footprints for OEM questionnaires
from your actual production routing.

GM, Ford, and Stellantis have all committed to Scope 3 reporting — which means every Tier 1 and Tier 2 supplier in their Canadian supply chain is now being asked for product-level carbon footprints. Spreadsheets can't keep up with the per-part granularity these questionnaires demand. VantageHSG can.

~3,000Active part numbers in a typical Tier 1 facility
42%Of a Tier 1's Scope 3 is purchased steel & aluminum
8 hrsAverage time to produce a full OEM questionnaire

The challenges

Why automotive parts reporting is hard.

We've worked with enough automotive partsfacilities in Ontario to know the exact failure modes. Here's what trips people up.

01

Per-part breakdowns defeat aggregate reporting

When GM asks for the carbon footprint of part #XYZ12345 produced in Q1, a facility-level average is useless. You need to allocate by production routing, material weight, and process time.

02

Supplier data is inconsistent

Tier 2 steel and aluminum suppliers report emissions in different units, with different boundaries, and at different frequencies. Normalizing this is a full-time job — if you have one.

03

Questionnaire format changes every year

CDP, EcoVadis, OEM proprietary questionnaires — each asks for similar data in subtly different structures. The underlying calculation is the same; the format is never the same.

How VantageHSG handles it

Built for automotive parts — not retrofitted.

Generic carbon accounting software treats every industry the same. VantageHSG knows the difference between blast furnace and EAF — and so do the emission factors we apply.

Activity-based allocation for per-part footprints

We allocate your facility emissions down to individual parts using your actual production routing, machine time, and material inputs — not revenue-based or mass-based averages.

Supplier data normalization

Drop us a folder of supplier sustainability reports in any format. We extract the emission factor per material, per supplier, and pin it to your part BOM.

Auto-formatted for OEM questionnaires

CDP, EcoVadis, GM, Ford, Stellantis — we maintain the format spec for each and produce a submission-ready file on demand.

Emission factors we apply

The factors that matter for automotive parts.

VantageHSG pins every calculation to a specific version of ECCC, EEIO, and sector-specific sources. Verifiers see exactly which factor was used, when it was published, and why.

  • Steel (HR, CR, galvanized, AHSS)
  • Aluminum (cast, extruded, sheet)
  • Plastics (PP, ABS, PA, PC)
  • Electricity (Ontario IESO)
  • Natural gas (process heating)
  • Inbound transport (Cat. 4)

Show us your automotive parts facility.

We'll come back with a narrow sample report from one document in 14 days — no obligation. The first conversation is always a scoping call, never a sales pitch.

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