NTI and Makersite forge strategic collaboration, establishing NTI as preferred implementation partner

March 2025

NTI, a leading full-service supplier of digital solutions for the construction, design, and manufacturing industries and Makersite, a German start-up pioneering a Product Lifecycle Intelligence platform that helps product teams to manage product sustainability and compliance, today announced a strategic partnership.

NTI Group (“NTI") and Makersite are thrilled to announce a new strategic partnership, with NTI becoming a Makersite Implementation Partner. This collaboration marks the beginning of a promising relationship, leveraging NTI’s deep expertise in data management and system integration (for PLM, ERP, and beyond) to enhance Makersite’s cutting-edge, data-driven approach to product lifecycle intelligence (PLI). By partnering with Makersite, NTI empowers product designers and engineers with deep-tier material and supplier data, enabling smarter, sustainability-focused decision-making.

Makersite’s groundbreaking solution aggregates data from over 150 material, process, and supplier databases, creating highly accurate digital twins of products and their supply chains. By integrating this data foundation with NTI’s native applications and API-first architecture, businesses gain unparalleled insights into their products and supply networks. The result is a holistic understanding of regulatory compliance, environmental impact, supply risk, and production costs—all seamlessly embedded into existing infrastructures.

As a leading technology advisor and consulting services provider in the construction, design, and manufacturing industries across Europe, NTI is a trusted partner for digital transformation. NTI is also among the world’s leading Autodesk partners, with offices in 13 countries worldwide. With this collaboration, NTI becomes the only Autodesk partner to also serve as a Makersite Implementation Partner. NTI’s mission is bold yet clear: to help customers develop more profitable, innovative, and sustainable designs and constructions in an increasingly complex world.

Makersite continues to be a pioneer of the eco-design approach. Current estimates suggest that less than 1% of new products have sustainability as a design parameter, but with eco-design at the forefront product engineers and designers can change the way new products are designed. Eco-design as a principle is only feasible when designers have data about the sustainability of their product, as well as data on its compliance, should costing, environmental, health, and safety criteria. With Makersite’s software, engineers and designers producing Life Cycle Assessments (LCAs) takes minutes instead of months, supporting faster, more informed decision-making across multiple criteria.

As regulations tighten and optimizing margins becomes crucial, organizations must embrace smarter, more granular data strategies. From heavy machinery to automotive, industries that leverage deep-tier supply chain insights will gain a decisive advantage.

"Our partnership with NTI creates exciting new opportunities for us,” says Makersite CEO Neil D’Souza. “With our technology and NTI’s experience, manufacturing, construction and design companies across the world are poised for a data revolution. Access to deep-tier supply chain data not only accelerates better decisions, but also drives greater sustainability, efficiency, and profitability.”

Steen Alexander, NTI Group CEO concurs. “We’re tremendously excited by the huge potential of Makersite as a catalyst for true, meaningful and lasting change. It empowers our clients to chart a clear path toward a more sustainable and cost-efficient future. Discussions around sustainability, eco-design, and the transition to a circular economy are more prevalent than ever. With Makersite’s solution, businesses can turn ambitious sustainability goals into tangible, actionable outcomes.”

About Makersite

Makersite is a pioneering Product Lifecycle Intelligence platform that helps product teams to manage product sustainability, supply chain risk, cost, and compliance in real-time, all in one place. Makersite combines manufacturers’ product and supply chain data, held within multiple systems, with their own data foundation made up of 140 material, process and supplier databases to create a digital twin of their products and their supply chain, allowing teams to collaborate more effectively so that they can design, source and manufacture better products up to 50x faster than traditional methods. To learn more, please visit: www.makersite.io.

About NTI Group

NTI Group is an Autodesk Platinum Partner and among the largest Autodesk partners in the world with 875+ employees in Brazil, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Iceland, Italy, Norway, Spain, Sweden, The Netherlands, The Republic of Ireland and the United Kingdom. The NTI Group is a leading full-service supplier of digital solutions for the construction, design, manufacturing and media & entertainment industries. NTI Group has been backed by the Nordic private equity group Axcel since 2022.