MI Sustainability

Core Features

Developed for complex minerals processing, MI Sustainability combines rigorous data engineering with a process digital twin to deliver disclosure-ready outputs and planning insights. Its major features include:

• Granular, finance-grade reporting — Track Scopes 1–3 alongside water, energy, air quality, waste, hazardous materials and other climate/nature indicators. Report by country, site, corporate/financial boundaries and scope categories, right down to product carbon footprints (PCFs) in a cloud-based SaaS platform.

• Data centralization & validation — Automatically capture data from plant historians, Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS), Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), environmental, and IoT instrumentation.

• Mass & energy balance digital twin — Digitally simulate the process to create a second comparable data set, complete data gaps and reconcile activity data via plant-wide mass and energy balance—supporting optimization and more accurate, auditable metrics.

• Framework-ready disclosures — Configure reporting for ISSB, CSRD, and CBAM, with flexible outputs across jurisdictions. Product-level results and scenario analysis support requirements such as double-materiality and climate-resilience disclosures.

• Targets, transition & scenarios — Set and disclose targets aligned with international agreements, test decarbonization projects (e.g., via scenario inputs or marginal abatement cost curves) and run climate-resilience assessments using steady-state simulation and forecasting.

• Enterprise ESG control & auditability — Use an enterprise control panel for approvals, materiality assessment, audit tools and data-quality analysis. Attach evidence, maintain user activity logs and trace values back to their source readings for assurance.

Closing Insights

Operators use MI Sustainability to turn compliance pressure into operational value. A hydrometallurgical facility in Africa improved GHG management, met tighter regulations and minimized carbon-tax exposure after Metallurgical Intelligence was deployed to calculate emissions hour-by-hour via a plant historian and digital twin. Another customer uncovered US$1.5 million per year in unused electricity while correcting emissions estimates—showing how finance-grade sustainability data can reveal immediate cost and carbon improvements. Beyond mining sites, Metallurgical Systems’ Elemental Engineering worked with a scientific organization on battery-materials processing, modelling multiple flowsheets to quantify Scope 1–3 intensities and recommend reduction strategies, evidence that the approach transfers to adjacent manufacturing value chains.

Metallurgical Systems has provided dedicated solution pages for key climate reporting regulations like CSRD in Europe, and Australia's NGER and Safeguard Mechanism—helping teams interpret new rules while using the same software to disclose against them. MI Sustainability is available as SaaS with tiered packages (Standard, Advanced, Expert, Enterprise), adding automated capture, quality reporting and enterprise-grade decarbonization planning as needs evolve. Consulting support—from process simulation to carbon accounting—helps customers stand up audit-ready workflows faster.