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Are you convinced that remanufacturing makes sense for your product? If so, you may have already made an initial assessment of your remanufacturing business case, based on our practical tips. Now it's time to draw up a cost model. In practice, remanufacturing often involves some unknown or invisible ...

Innovation in manufacturing plays a key role in reducing the industry’s environmental impact. Recent advances in non-classical manufacturing technologies, such as ultrashort pulsed laser manufacturing, open doors to new opportunities, reconciling cost considerations and environmental impact. Sirris ...

If you want to set up activities such as remanufacturing and refurbishing, you must of course also have a return logistics system that supplies you with enough discarded products (cores). It is the quality, volume and frequency of this inflow that largely determines the economic feasibility of your ...

Sirris expert Pieter Samyn had the honor of chairing Leadvent Group’s 2nd Annual World Biopolymers and Bioplastics Innovation Forum in Amsterdam on February 28-29, 2024. The conference spotlighted recent advancements and successful case studies on the implementation of biopolymers and bioplastics ...

Sometimes we hear that the low price is the only reason a customer would want to buy remanufactured products. That triggered us. We did some research and learned that there are more reasons to choose remanufactured products.

For the food packaging industry, choosing the most appropriate packaging material for food products is a daily challenge. Paper and cardboard seem ideal as packaging materials, provided they come with a barrier coating. Yet, it is not always clear whether coating materials meet the desired ...

Every organisation involved in the practice of the circular economy has to face it: situations that end up being a stalemate, where external factors have to change first before we can move forward, where different parties are waiting for each other because they are interdependent. We clarify these ...

On 1 December 2023, over 100 professionals from the belgian manufacturing industry gathered in Brussels around the theme of circular value retention. As learning and networking were the main objectives of the RE:VIVE event, we can safely say mission accomplished.

Every organisation involved in the practice of the circular economy has to face it: situations that end up being a stalemate, where external factors have to change first before we can move forward, where different parties are waiting for each other because they are interdependent. For some, there is ...