How to act to increase progress towards circularity? Here are the lessons we learned from the setbacks, failures and success stories we encountered and witnessed.
Can steps in product repair and upgrade be taken over by social enterprises? We are looking for the keys to success in such collaborations and can already present a first case: the refurbishing of On ...
The WILLOW project’s integrated system will provide a data-driven curtailment solution for wind farm operators, looking for a trade-off between power production and lifetime consumption.
In future, vessels used for transferring offshore crew will be electric and will need to charge offshore. Damen Shipyards Group has developed a new charging concept.
With a large portion of single-use batteries ending up in landfills or being incinerated, newly developed biofuel cells are an ecofriendly energy source and a flexible, sustainable and economically viable alternative to (miniature) batteries in a wide range of (IoT) applications, such as health care.
How can we develop solutions that support and make circular practices self-evident rather than inhibit them? The design of a circular strategy, the associated business model and, of course, the ...
The processes associated with product life extension require a different approach, often involving manual labour. The cost of labour, staff shortages, and the need for efficiency, along with numerous ...
Removable coatings allow coated interior products to be reused several times, which will significantly extend their lifespan and ensure recyclable waste streams at end-of-life. The PEELDESIGN project ...
Dutch startup FLASC has developed a system to store excess electricity from offshore wind farms onsite. That way, the parks can provide power even when the wind is not blowing.
You explore the 'inner circles of the circular economy' in your company and ecosystem: concepts with high potential for circular value retention, based on the 'R-strategies'. New terms are coming at ...
Researchers at Sirris demonstrate for first time femtosecond laser texturing of soft biopolymer coatings as a high-throughput method for surface patterning.
