Project time: 2023 – 2025
Budget: 6 475 400 kr
The project's goal is the circular use of plastic in cars through reuse and recycling.
Today, plastics in end-of-life vehicles is mainly incinerated with energy recovery in Sweden. It causes large losses of material resources and emissions of greenhouse gases. A new ELV regulation proposed in July 2023 says that 25 % of the plastics in cars need to be recycled PCR (post-consumer recycled) plastic and that 30 % of all the plastics in cars should be recycled by 2030. This project adresses circular reuse and recycling of plastics in cars. A classification will be performed based on the possibilities to dismantle, value of the components and materials. It also includes developing proposals for redesign of complex plastic components so that these can be more easily dismantled, reused and recycled resource-efficiently without major downgrading. The ELV regulation’s effects on the car industry and the recycling industry in Sweden will be investigated. Costs and possible incomes in the recycling system are mapped and a business model is proposed. In the project, key players in the entire value chain collaborate to jointly contribute to the necessary changeover to be able to meet the new regulation. Vehicle manufacturers, dismantlers, recyclers etc. will all be affected by the new regulations.
Indium is a silvery metal that is very soft and malleable. Together with tin, the metal can be used to create indium tin oxide with properties that make it one of the most important components in the electronics industry. The goal of the project is therefore to build a recycling unit in a continuous production without waste.
2021 – 2023
Reduced variation in machinability promote lower costs, predictable and a sustainable processing of grey cast iron components.
2020 – 2022
The project aims to test the idea of an effective circulation system for material waste from additive manufacturing. Our goal is to map the prerequisites for closer collaboration between material suppliers and additive manufacturers, including new business models, partnerships and logistics solutions.
2017 – 2018
To lay the foundation for tomorrow’s network of circular economy microfactories producing products designed by Swedish industry and produced from local recycled plastics.
2022 – 2023
Robust bolted joints for electrical vehicles
2019 – 2022
A large number of building boards are used in both construction and furniture manufacturing. They are usually made of sawdust with a formaldehyde-based adhesive as a binder. However, they have some problems, including the fact that shavings absorb moisture and that formaldehyde is both allergenic and potentially carcinogenic. The LigniGC project aims to develop a better alternative.
2021 – 2023
Reduce the environmental impact of foundries by reducing the amount of sand waste using machine learning.
2023 – 2024
Today, the industry often uses energy- and time-consuming autoclave processes for the manufacture of composites with high quality requirements, towards for example the aerospace industry.
2017 – 2018
Urinary incontinence is a common problem that affects everyone from young women who have recently given birth to men who have undergone prostate surgery. Amongst people over the age of 70, almost half of everyone, both women and men, suffer from involuntary urinary leakage.
2021 – 2023
A research collaboration between Luleå University of Technology and the company RGS 90 will provide new treatment methods for three common but problematic types of waste.
2015 – 2019
The REWIND project combines the principles of lean production and eco-efficiency in three industry pilots at Stena Recycling, Volvo AB and IKEA GreenTech. The objective is to retain the value embedded in materials with circular strategies (reuse, remanufacture, recycle, repurpose, etc.). Lessons learnt from the pilots will be used to develop educational tools for engineers and industry leaders to accelerate the uptake of best practices for circularity and sustainable production.
2019 – 2022
For more than a hundred years, lubricants for various types of machines have mainly been made from fossil oil. The function has improved over time, but they also have disadvantages; they negatively affect the environment, human health and the climate. The project will therefore work to improve the practical applications by, together with other tests, combining lab tests with field tests.
2021 – 2023
Urinary incontinence is a common problem that affects everyone, ranging from young women who have recently given birth to men who have undergone prostate surgery. Amongst people over the age of 70, almost half of everyone, both women and men, suffer from involuntary urine leakage.
2021 – 2023
The project aims to improve the collection system for recycling of pre-consumer plastic waste.
2022 – 2023
Difficulties in joining are often a limiting factor for vehicle manufacturers during product weight reduction.
2020 – 2023
Cyclicor, which has its origins at Lund University, has in a previous project within Mistra Innovation successfully developed a method for producing the plastics polycarbonate (PC) and polyurethane (PU) without toxic additives. One goal of the Polyfree 2.0 project is to increase the production of the new plastics from lab scale to quantities that enable the participating industrial companies in turn to take steps towards finished products. Other goals are for the plastics to be recyclable as well as have the required properties.
2021 – 2023
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