Make environmental footprint management actionable
Mérieux NutriSciences | Blonk is a leading international expert in food system sustainability, inspiring and enabling the agri-food sector to give shape to sustainability. Our purpose is to create a sustainable and healthy planet for current and future generations.
We support organizations understand their environmental impact in the agri-food value chain by offering advice and developing tailored data and software solutions based on the latest scientific developments and data.
Blonk is now Mérieux NutriSciences | Blonk
Since March 2023 Blonk is part of Mérieux NutriSciences group to strengthen a global position in environmental footprinting. This integration also means a new brand name and visual identity, symbolizing the beginning of a new chapter. Blonk is now Mérieux NutriSciences | Blonk. While you will notice changes in our brand name and visual identity, rest assured that our exceptional team remains dedicated to our mission to drive towards more sustainable agri-food systems and creating future-proof solutions to offer our planet: Better Food. Better Health. Better World.
Team Mérieux NutriSciences | Blonk
Our growing team includes agri-food and sustainability experts, software engineers, and data and methodology specialists.
Our work is centered around high-quality data and Life Cycle Assessment methodologies essential for a sustainable agri-food sector.
We provide independent and actionable insights via advice, facts & figures, and tailored data and software solutions. We do this based on the best available science, data, and standards and a transparent, reliable, hands-on approach.
Environmental Footprinting services
Product & company footprinting
Methodology & standard development
Data
solutions
Software
solutions
LCA & footprinting
training
Research
projects
Examples of our work
Consultancy
MxNS | Blonk’s Footprint Solution empowers Rabobank to help horticultural entrepreneurs to reduce their CO2-footprint
To accelerate sustainability in the Dutch horticultural sector, Rabobank aims to support horticultural entrepreneurs in getting insights into their CO2-footprint. Mérieux NutriSciences | Blonk (MxNS | Blonk) will assist Rabobank with a Digital Footprint Solution, encompassing data collection, CO2-footprint calculations, and an expert Helpdesk. The collected data will serve as the starting point for both uniform and company-specific CO2-footprint calculations, aligned with the latest footprint calculation rules. The results will provide valuable insights for entrepreneurs and the sector to further reduce their CO2-footprint and futureproof their businesses.
Digital solution
Carbon footprint tool for seafood sector
Seafish is the UK public body supporting the UK seafood sector to thrive. One of Seafish’s 2023-38 Corporate Plan priorities is to support the sector’s response to the climate change emergency, by providing practical resources. To make this possible, accurate insights into carbon emissions and supply chain hotspots (‘risks’) are crucial. Following its tender process, in 2023 Seafish commissioned MxNS | Blonk to create a powerful digital solution, enabling UK seafood businesses to calculate product footprints and gain insights to drive transformational supply chain improvements.
The result is the Seafood Carbon Emissions Profiling Tool (SCEPT); this tool demonstrates perfectly how our expertise on environmental footprinting, software engineering, and data analysis comes together to enhance sustainability in the agri-food sector.
Data solution
Agri-footprint
Advancing sustainability in the agri-food sector requires accurate and precise information. Blonk developed the Agri-footprint database to provide a thorough and consistent life cycle inventory (LCI) database for the agriculture and food sector. The database is widely used and implemented by the food industry, the Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) community, the scientific community, and governments worldwide.
capacity building
Footprinting & LCA Expert Trainings
As experts with 25+ years in the agri-food sustainability sector, we are well equipped to support you in your transition towards a more sustainable future. We have developed a comprehensive set of trainings which are specific to agri-food environmental footprinting.
Our trainings blend theory, hands-on exercises, and case studies. They will provide you and your team with practical and actionable knowledge to support you in implementing footprinting practices into your work.
Environmental Footprinting Modules
Building an accurate footprint strategy with Blonk's Environmental Footprinting Modules
Implementing a consistent footprint monitoring strategy can be challenging, because of for instance complex and largescale data collection, lack of expertise on environmental footprinting calculations. Blonk's multidisciplinary team, skilled in environmental footprint analysis, software engineering, and data generation, is here to support. We have created specific Environmental Footprinting Modules to empower you to assess your environmental impact throughout the agri-food value chain. For Albert Heijn we utilize several Environmental Footprinting Modules and support them with CO2-footprint calculations of fruit and vegetable products.
Mérieux NutriSciences | Blonk's distinctive value
Providing you with actionable insights in environmental impacts over the entire lifecycle of a product
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International leader in Food System Sustainability
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Pioneers in Environmental Footprint Management in the agri-food sector
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Comprehensive solutions: consultancy, software and data
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Rooted in Life Cycle Thinking approach
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Supporting the entire Food System Value Chain
How we can help you to give shape to sustainability
Our multidisciplinary team helps you make value chain footprint management actionable. We support you with your first Life Cycle Assessment research, build sustainability capacity within your organization and organize life cycle training for employees. We can also support you by creating technical infrastructure to automate LCAs or create tailor-made environmental calculation tools. We can go even further by connecting our tools with your organization's data management ecosystem, making environmental footprint management your business practice.
Together we can pave the road to a sustainable and healthy planet.
Environmental footprinting
Conducting Product or Corporate Life Cycle Assessments and Carbon footprint studies
Environmental standards development
Harmonizing environmental calculation rules for sectors and industries
Sustainability Target Setting
Helping you set sustainability targets and reduce your GHG emissions
Sustainable diets
Research into futureproof diets that are both healthy and sustainable
Capacity building: training & courses
Knowledge transfer to accelerate sustainable development
Secondment: Interim LCA Support
Growing the sustainability capacity within your organization and making our experts part of your team
Tailor-made environmental calculation tools
Gaining insights into the environmental performance of your products
Sustainability software solutions
Tailor-made and ready-to-use solutions to evaluate the environmental impact of agri-food systems
Environmental databases
Development of reliable, qualitative environmental (LCA) databases, such as Agri-footprint
Environmental data development
Development of high-quality (LCA) environmental datasets for environmental analysis
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