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1992 | ifu Hamburg was founded as "ifu Institut für Umweltinformatik Hamburg GmbH" |
1993 | Registration with the Commercial Register of Hamburg Collaboration with the Institute for Energy and Environmental Research Heidelberg IFEU |
1994 | Launch of the first version of Umberto at CeBIT |
1995 | Dakapo - Das Kartierprogramm |
1996 | Umberto 2.0 |
1997 | Project to develop stream management for chain stores |
1998 | Umberto 3.0 with cost accounting component and Sankey diagrams |
1999 | KUFA: Development of software to support Germany's Weather Service |
2000 | ISAC - Integration of substance flow analysis into an advanced environmental control concept |
2001 | ecoinvent project (database of LCI data sets) |
2002 | Umberto 4.0 |
2003 | Moved to larger offices in Hamburg Altona |
2004 | NEEDS: New Energies Externalities Development for Sustainability |
2005 | ETHICS IN BUSINESS award 10. Umberto Anwender Workshop in Berlin Umberto 5.0 Expansion of Sabento product range (software for assessing the sustainability of biotechnology processes) |
2006 | ÖKOPROFIT Launch of e!Sankey 0.9 |
2007 | Umberto 5.5 Hamburg Environmental Partnership |
2008 | e!Sankey 2.0 Publication of EMPINIA framework as an open source project |
2009 | TOP JOB 100 award |
2010 | Moved to even larger offices Partner of Hamburg Umwelthauptstadtjahr |
2011 | Launch of Umberto for Carbon Footprint |