Report on the life cycle assessment

D7.4 gives a detailed description of the Life-Cycle-Analysis of the demonstrators produced with help of EMW. It will describe the environmental impacts obtained by EMW compared to conventional (i.e. thermal) joining, due to the absence of heat, radiation, gas or smoke, low energy consumption, and the absence of lubricants, additives or filler materials, etc. For a quantitative evaluation of the LCA especially the data determined for the state of the art solution in WP1 is relevant. It will serve as a direct comparison.