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Circular Economy

Efficient use of valuable materials

"Our process-product-applications approach gives us an unparalleled vision and unique capabilities to tackle circularity issues whilst conceiving new multilayered components for batteries or electrolyzers. By already anticipating second life or recyclability at end of life we integrate resource efficiency and eco-design in our daily work."
Bernard Vanderheyden
Unit Manager Metal Production and Platform Coordinator Circular Economy

Circularity starts with efficient use and lean production of materials. It focuses on retaining as much value as possible to ensure long-term sustainability.

Beyond optimized production processes, fast-evolving traceability, sorting technologies, and reuse or remanufacturing solutions are gaining importance. Recycling, in this context, becomes the final step to close the loop for locally sourced, efficiently produced, and maximally reused materials.

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Resource Efficient Metal Recovery

Pre-treatment, sorting, and separation are essential to achieve high-quality recycled products. Processes must remain robust enough to turn waste into usable materials. This application goes beyond metallurgy and also applies to various non-metallic material types.

Design and Manufacturing of Circular Products

Smart use of alloying elements, supported by traceability, enhances the reuse and remanufacturing of metal products. Advanced technologies such as additive manufacturing help optimize the use of costly metals. They also open the door to reuse and recycle metals at end of life—key to supporting the circular economy.

Industrial Residues and End-of-Life Products

Ongoing developments, like recovering aluminium from household waste, show how challenging waste-to-metal processes can be. This is especially true when dealing with non-metallic elements. Input flow variations demand stable output, requiring a deeper understanding of mass balance beyond empirical rules.

High-Value Materials from Secondary Resources

Maximising the use of complex material flows is crucial to fully close loops and secure local access to secondary resources. Targeted work on products like permanent magnets, solar panels, wind turbines, and others is vital to support a circular economy.

Projects

Safe H-DRI

Safe transport of DRI from H2-based direct reduction considering quality-related H-DRI reactivity, stability, the efficiency of passivation methods and health and recycling aspects
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Metconzero

Phase transformation measurement for mechanical properties control and assessment
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Hurricane

Sector-coupling hub for circular use of thermal and industrial waste
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