Enabling Circularity in Key EU Industries: Remanufacturing for Composites. Organized by APRA, Challenge Circularity Stream by META Circularity, and Politecnico di Milano
Topics:
- Creating a secondary market for regenerated composites, exploring design for disassembly, AI-driven material recovery, and best practices.
- Enhancing traceability and Digital Product Passports, uncovering cross-sector opportunities and innovative tracking solutions.
- Developing new circular business models, addressing supply chain innovations, remanufacturing opportunities in EVs, and customer engagement strategies.
Session overview:
13:45 - Registration and warm up
14:00 - Opening of the programme
14:05 - Introduction
14:10 - REUMAN: Digitally-enhanced multi-level solution for smart
human-centric Remanufacturing
14:25 - RECREATE: Fibre-reinforced composites going circular Q&A
14:40 - REMANET: Making the vision of a circular economy a reality
through refabrication Q&A
14:55 - ZEVRA: Zero emission electric vehicles enabled by
harmonised circularity
15:10 - Conclusions and guidelines for the workshop
15:25 - Introduction to the interactive workshop
16:15 - Presentation of group work results and debate
16:30 - Final conclusions
16:25 - Presentation of group work results and debate
16:45 - Conclusions
16:40 - Aperitive and networking
17:15 - Closing of the event
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Speakers
Gianmarco Griffini is an Associate Professor of Materials Science and Technology at the Department of Chemistry, Materials and Chemical Engineering “Giulio Natta” of Politecnico di Milano (Italy). He received his MSc degree in Chemical Engineering from Politecnico di Milano in 2005 and his PhD degree in Materials Engineering from the same institution in 2012, after spending a few years in the private sector working as process engineer. He has held visiting positions at University College London (UK), at University of California at Berkeley (USA), and at University of Castilla-La Mancha (Spain). His research interests are mainly focused on the design, synthesis and characterization of polymer-based materials and on the study of their structure-property relationships. Areas of major effort include: bio-derived and biodegradable polymers and composites for sustainable manufacturing; materials and devices for solar energy harvesting, management and conversion, and for energy storage; stimuli-responsive polymeric and composite materials for smart, advanced manufacturing and for the circular economy. In these areas, he is/has been involved as scientific coordinator in several regional, national and European funded projects, and as responsible for different research contracts with the private sector. He currently serves as editorial board member of the journal Aggregate (Wiley).
