ReX strategies | Dealing with ReX complexity in sheltered workshops
Product variability in terms of type, quality and history poses a major challenge for standardised work in sheltered workshops. You will find possible approaches to address this here.
Setting up cooperation from a customised perspective
Every customised company has specific strengths and a unique context. This framework helps you take the most meaningful steps that suit your situation.
Inspiration and insight
ReX creates new opportunities for social enterprises
This seven-part ReX series offers insight into repair, dismantling and shows how social enterprises combine technical precision with social impact through circular collaboration.
Growing together in ReX starts with listening
Small steps help a ReX collaboration grow: open conversations, shared insights and trust between manufacturing and custom work companies. This is how circular opportunities emerge, often closer than you expect.
Collaboration as a lever for circular innovation
An experiment can spark collaboration: conTeyor and Ryhove show how testing, open communication and shared insights lead to new circular opportunities in their ReX trajectory.
Social enterprises make a circular difference
Smart processes drive large-scale circular cleaning at MAAAT. Thanks to local collaboration and efficient logistics, products gain a second life and companies build sustainable growth.
Sundo and OptimaT join forces with the SMOTspot
The SMOTspot: a smart sunscreen dispenser, modularly designed and reused after each season. Combining technology, sustainability, and social impact.
Sheltered workshops boost the circular economy
What do you do with old plane seats or discarded electronics? Sheltered workshop Mirto combines manpower and technology to make material flows circular.
A circular solution for old suitcases
What can be done with old suitcases that are beyond repair? Samsonite has closed the loop with Aarova by dismantling and reusing materials. It’s a unique story of circularity, local collaboration and social impact.
A new life for lease bikes
Lease bikes get a second chance! E-bis and sheltered workshop Ecoso put ex-lease bikes back on the road. Read how they make sustainable mobility possible with circular collaboration and social impact.
A lever for collaboration
Manufacturers and sheltered workshops don’t necessarily see eye to eye. The Living Lab Remanumaat wants to help them get to know each other better and to search for new forms of collaboration through co-creation.
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Digital support
The BrefurbiSH project focuses on more efficient refurbishing of household appliances. Advanced data analysis and cognitive and functional support help the target group of operators with this.
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Satellic and WAAK: refurbishing OBUs
Successful collaboration thanks to a partnership with similar goals and a common vision: larger product series, a thorough process analysis, division into small repetitive tasks and a step-by-step approach.
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Remanumaat | More collaboration for circular strategies in the manufacturing industry
The Living Lab Remanumaat wants to assess potential collaborations between manufacturers and sheltered workshops iteratively and in practice. We look for solutions and share success factors.
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Collaboration between Telenet and Vlotter for refurbishing modems and other devices
Can sheltered workshops take over steps in repairing and upgrading products? The collaboration between Telenet and Vlotter ensures high-quality refurbished devices and less waste.
Collaboration between sheltered workshop Lidwina and Strygoo goes circular
Sheltered workshop Lidwina had been assembling SmarTrap, Strygoo’s smart rat trap, for the past three years. It therefore made sense to choose the same company for repair and maintenance. Find out how this successful partnership came about.
Tools
Check the ReX roles for sheltered workshops
Outsourcing ReX activities
Share your success with ReX strategies!
Has your company achieved positive results using ReX strategies? We’re keen to hear about your experiences and would like to share your success story with other businesses on this platform. Inspire others with your approach and make sure your story gets the attention it deserves.
Key challenges in setting up ReX collaboration
Recovering products
Contact with the user and owner of the products at the end of life is crucial for setting up reverse logistics. Read about collaboration that focuses on the return flow.
A sound business case
Sharing the costs and benefits between the partners in the chain is essential for making the whole process economically feasible. Find out how to make collaboration profitable here.
