Seminar:
Understanding soft materials
– Properties, processing and design

What if your products could keep delivering value long after they leave your factory floor – while cutting costs and strengthening your competitiveness?

In this presentation, Professor Tim McAloone will unfold how DTU is going about the exploration of how remanufacturing and circularity can unlock new business opportunities in a market facing material scarcity, rising costs, and growing regulatory pressure. You will discover how Denmark’s new reManuFactory competence centre is setting up to enable companies to scale circular solutions through proven technologies, design techniques, business cases, and sustainability screening methods, actual remanufacturing practices, and much more.

In his presentation, Tim will examine real industrial cases, present practical tools, and propose concrete steps to retaining product value rather than losing it. You will receive numerous actionable takeaways that you can apply immediately – all the way from Design for Disassembly, through viable take‑back setups, to cost‑effective remanufacturing processes.

Oplægget handler om, hvordan man kan gøre en affaldsudfordring til en positiv forretning. Peter giver dig inspiration til, hvordan du kommer i gang med genanvendelse i din virksomhed. Der vil blive vist helt konkrete eksempler på, hvordan Textilia har arbejdet med genanvendelse af produkter og hvilke positive og negative udfordringer, det har skabt kulturelt.

The Ecodesign Regulation and its associated Working Plan entered into force on 18 July 2024 and 11 July 2025, respectively. Together, they continue and expand the EU’s efforts to reduce the environmental impacts of products, building on the previous Ecodesign Directive. The new framework broadens product scope, introduces new regulatory possibilities, and establishes key measures such as the Digital Product Passport and a ban on the destruction of unsold goods.

This presentation will provide an overview of the Regulation and the Working Plan, and will take a closer look at the repairability index introduced or considered for several product groups.

This talk explores real-world remanufacturing projects such as the Remanufacturing of Rotors, Stators, Rotor Cans and Cast-Iron Pump Houses.

It examines how circularity and engineering intersect when theory meets practice, revealing hurdles like traceability, challenges into building a solid business case, and managing technical complexity.

Expect insights into how design limitations, material constraints, and process optimization challenges play a role in Remanufacturing.

When you are moving from linear to circular, you can reach for different R-strategies (Refuse, Reduce, Reuse, Repair, Remanufacture, Recycle, Recover) depending on products, materials and value chains.

Stena Recycling will unfold recycling, and the possibilities and challenges of pushing towards remanufacturing and reuse. Stena Recycling will also answer our no. 1 frequently asked questing: “What happens to the waste?” focusing on materials relevant for the participants.

How do we increase the lifespan of products?

Let us explore the possibility of abandoning the current single-use culture, and venture into expanding the lifespan of existing products, and explore the possibilities of re-manufacturing rather than replacing.

The talk showcases a few practical real-world examples of approaches to increasing product lifespan via smarter designs and re-manufacturing.