Project time: 2017 – 2018
Budget: 715 000 kronor
Funding: SIP Produktion2030
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.
Additive manufacturing yields a large amount of material waste – up to 50% – which may represent more than half of its environmental impact, but also a significant part of the production cost. We estimate that the material cost of plastic additive production could be reduced by 10-30% if waste was recycled, in a close collaboration between material suppliers and manufacturing industry. The project aims to test an idea on designing an effective circulation system for material waste from additive manufacturing through a closer collaboration between material suppliers and additive manufacturers, including new business models, partnerships and logistics solutions. The market of additive manufacturing is a relatively new, but strongly increasing segment. By designing a system for efficient circulation of materials (eg waste and prototypes) early in this growth phase, Swedish industry can become competitive in the field, with a more economically and environmentally sustainable production. The system includes a business model providing incentives for the entire value chain in additive manufacturing, to contribute to effective circulation. The project will focus on plastic materials for additive manufacturing, but the possibilities to apply the idea/system on metals and ceramics will also be analyzed, to some extent. Technical, economic and system requirements for realizing a circulation system will be tested in collaboration with industrial partners.
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
The project aims to improve the collection system for recycling of pre-consumer plastic waste.
2022 – 2023
Reduced variation in machinability promote lower costs, predictable and a sustainable processing of grey cast iron components.
2020 – 2022
Reduced lead times and improved performance for tooling through innovative manufacturing and assembly strategies as well as optimised design enabled by use of additive manufacturing (AM).
2016 – 2018
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's main goal is to develop a design and manufacturing methodology, for resource efficient additive manufacturing of components in the automotive industry.
2017 – 2020
The goal is to demonstrate the additive manufacturing of micrometer/millimeter wave components.
2019 – 2022
The project's goal is the circular use of plastic in cars through reuse and recycling.
2023 – 2025
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
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 overall goal of DiSAM is to create a unique test AM Hub in Sweden for metal and polymer based additive manufacturing processes.
2017 – 2021
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
Design process from concept to printable stl-file for AM including surface based networks in the structure.
2019 – 2022
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
The aim of the project is to demonstrate utilization of additive manufacturing for copper-based products and process solutions and faster adaption
2016 – 2018
Reduce the environmental impact of foundries by reducing the amount of sand waste using machine learning.
2023 – 2024
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
DiLAM strengthens the competitiveness of the Swedish manufacturing industry by aligning the digital and physical supply chains for additive manufacturing of large parts.
2017 – 2020
DIDAM develops and demonstrates digitalization solutions to industrialize Additive Manufacturing
2020 – 2023
This project intends to design and develop a new test methodology for evaluation of power flowability in powder bed fusion (PBF) systems. The test apparatus will simulate powder flow in PBF machines and can be used for optimizing the powder layering behavior for potential utilization of alternative powder qualities. Additionally, this equipment creates opportunities for both powder producers and AM part manufacturers to minimize powder waste and maximize material utilization.
2017 – 2018
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
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
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
Assessing the Robustness of the Laser Powder Bed Fusion Process
2021 – 2024
IDAG aim to identify gaps and propose actions for the digital infrastructure necessary to industrialize additive manufacturing technologies. Actors from a new type of value chain of manufacturing companies – from powder to product – collaborate with digital solution providers and researchers to understand the needs and articulate the necessary actions through analysis of industrial cases. The target is to deliver a description in the form of a roadmap for how these actions can be developed and provided in order to ensure flexible and scalable digital platforms for additive manufacturing value chains.
2019 – 2019
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