In a context where environmental questions have been gaining increasingly importance, for both the present legislation and consumers' requirements, several strategies can be adopted by companies that wish to achieve sustainability. The verification list for the "Design for The Life Cycle" is an approach that provides the qualitative evaluation of improvement opportunities in a certain product, in terms of its eco-efficiency. This paper presents the evaluation of the product "Santa-Cruz" Sundial, produced by a Brazilian games' company. An analysis of multiple aspects of the product was made, these being: sizing, materials, production, usage, maintenance, package, final disposal, among others. This assessment was made by assigning the following classification to each one of these criteria: A-ideal situation (the standard was considered in its overall); B-situation to explore (There are opportunities of improvement); C-Urgent need for action (the standard was never considered or the solution is yet unknown for it).

This article presents how the subsidiaries can contribute to the generation of innovation in an aerospace company in a decentralized model. From the analyzed innovation network oriented by the Multinational corporation strategies were identified nine factors that favor the use of the subsidiary. The method consists of a qualitative case study carried out in a subsidiary of the aerospace sector with operations in Belo Horizonte. In order to confirm or refute the elaboration of the hypothesis about the use and contribution of CETE Belo Horizonte to the aerospace company's innovation process, the interview results are shown in association to the listed concepts, highlighting the critical points between the parent-subsidiary relationship.

This paper presents the results of an environmental, technological and economic research, focusing on the management and operation of two small furniture companies in Brazil, aiming to analyze the level of raw material loss and waste generation during the production process. The companies studied are located in Manaus and Belo Horizonte, regions of different social, economic and technological context. Concepts such as Cleaner Production, Eco-efficiency, Eco-design and Product Development were addressed, aiming at an improvement proposal adequate to the real needs and limitations of each company. For that, the organizational characteristics were surveyed and the production processes adopted were described and evaluated. The study conclusions indicate that companies have very distinct features, which prevent the application of traditional systematic management tools. Moreover, research demonstrate that Product Development Process is not a defined process in the observed companies and the proximity of a raw material source (in this case, the Amazon forest) does not contribute decisively to the needs and problems related to the production processes.