CIMMREC - Circular Models for Mixed and Multi Material Recycling in Manufacturing

Scientific studies on Swedish industrial waste management have shown that there remain large challenges in material efficiency and material recycling in the manufacturing industries. Recycling is obstructed by lack of material and process information, as well as, lack of collaboration in the recycling loop. Operation management tends to more and more include resource efficiency, e.g. in Green Lean manufacturing. Environmentally conscious companies and researchers who try to choose the optimal recycling loops for each material need increased knowledge on how to judge the loops on environmental (LCA) and cost (LCC) grounds. Principles for vertical, as well as, horizontal collaborations are needed. In addition, trends for the future make the manufacturing system more complex with regards to the number of materials used and the content of the materials. The typed of materials increasing most are those that are least recycled today. At small and medium-sized companies additional obstacles are lack of waste management expertise together with low material volumes gives a need to cooperate locally to overcome inefficiencies in the recycling logistics and information management.

The CiMMREC project aims to develop LCC and LCA models for extended recycling loops, point out material and process information needed for an efficient system, and develop collaboration principles within the system. Existing and emerging recycling loops will be compared and novel material technology for recycling will be demonstrated.

The participating industrial partners are: Volvo Stena, Scania, Plastal, Almedahls and Kinnalin. The academic partners are the research institute Swerea IVF, Mälardalen University, Lund University, Viktoria ICT and MiljöGiraff.

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Design for green lean building module production - Case study (Jul 2018)
Martin Kurdve, Jutta Hildenbrand , Christina Jönsson
Swedish Production Symposium 2018 (SPS 2018)

Using the Green Performance Map: towards material efficiency measurement (May 2018)
Sasha Shahbazi, Magnus Wiktorsson, Martin Kurdve

Waste Flow Mapping - the handbook (Oct 2017)
Martin Kurdve, Sasha Shahbazi, Marcus Wendin , Cecilia Bengtsson , Pernilla Amprazis , Magnus Wiktorsson

Improve material efficiency through an assessment and mapping tool (Jun 2017)
Sasha Shahbazi, Pernilla Amprazis
The International Sustainable Development Research Society 2017 (ISDRS2017)

Production system and material efficiency challenges for large scale introduction of complex materials (Jun 2017)
Martin Kurdve, Fredrik Henriksson , Magnus Wiktorsson, Patrick Denzler, Mats Zackrisson , Marcus Bjelkemyr
European Advanced Material Congress 2016 (EAMC 2016)

Comparison of green lean tools: A Swedish case study
Sasha Shahbazi, Martin Kurdve, Christina Jönsson , Mats Zackrisson , Anna Runa Kristinsdottir
Journal of Cleaner Production (IJCLEPRO)