BASF Coatings has strengthened its sustainability offering for the automotive refinish sector by securing TÜV Rheinland certification for the calculation methodology behind its Eco Impact Assessment tool.
The independent approval confirms that the tool’s approach to calculating the corporate carbon footprint of body shops is aligned with the Greenhouse Gas Protocol, one of the leading international standards for greenhouse gas accounting.
The Eco Impact Assessment is integrated into BASF Coatings’ cloud based Refinity digital platform, which is used by body shops to manage colour, workflow and business processes. By embedding sustainability analysis into an everyday management system, BASF aims to make carbon transparency a practical part of daily decision making rather than a separate compliance exercise.
TÜV Rheinland’s certification applies to the calculation methodology itself and has been validated in 11 European countries since 2025. This reflects the tool’s applicability across different regulatory environments and workshop set ups. For body shops, the certification provides confidence that their reported carbon footprints are credible, consistent and comparable, which is increasingly important in discussions with insurers, fleet operators and green rating programmes.
Unlike more generic emissions calculators, the Eco Impact Assessment takes a detailed, life cycle assessment based view of body shop operations. It analyses real material and energy flows across activities such as spraying and drying, product consumption, waste handling and fleet use. Because it uses actual operational data and on site measurements, the results reflect real working conditions rather than industry averages.
