Metal
Challenges
The role of the circular economy
General
- Increasing the added value of products as a means of differentiation versus industrial price reduction (metallurgy and metal products).
- Tailor-made value proposition and turnkey solutions.
- Collaboration in and between sectors.
Priority strategies and approaches
- Waste recycling and landfill reduction.
- Advanced materials (alloys).
- Best Available Techniques (BAT).
- Clean technologies (machining and forming systems and equipment, near net shape).
- Increased responsible consumption and corporate transparency.
Environmental
- Reducing pollution, emission and disposal.
- Reducing dilution effect of key materials.
- Increase recycling rate.
- Reinforcing recovery and subsequent use of steel making slag from electric arc furnaces.
Competitive improvements
- Waste recovery (isostatic, salt slag, PVC waste stream, etc.).
- Re-introduction of waste from the steelworks and rolling mill areas into the production chain.
- Recycling waste to be used in other sectors (construction, etc.).
- Search for secondary material alternatives.
- Waste prevention and recycling criteria.
- Reducing industrial land contamination that promotes the dispersion of pollutants.
ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING TO REDUCE THE ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT OF MACHINED PRODUCTS
ADDILAN
ADVANCED SORTING OF FERROUS METAL SCRAP WASTE
ARCELOR MITTAL
ALTERNATIVE MOULDING MATERIALS TO SILICA FOUNDRY SAND
EUSKATFUND
ALUMINIUM ALLOY SEPARATION BY OPTICAL DISPLAY
REFIAL
AUTOMATED SEPARATION OF SINTERED NdFeB MAGNETS TO BE RECYCLED AS BONDED MAGNETS
STADLER S.A
BITUMINOUS MIXTURES OBTAINED FROM THE RECOVERY OF MOULDING SAND
ASFALTADOS OLARRA
CEMENT PRODUCED FROM LOCAL INDUSTRIAL BY-PRODUCTS
CEMENTOS LEMONA
CENTRIFUGAL PUMPS REMANUFACTURING
EMICA PUMPS
CO-ORDINATED PEF IMPLEMENTATION IN METAL PANEL MANUFACTURING COMPANIES
SIDEREX
CO2 CAPTURE IN ALKALINE WASTE GENERATION
FYM HEIDELBERG
COLOUR SEPARATION DURING PCB PROCESSING
REYDESA
CONTINUOUS PARTICLE SEPARATION FOR EDM MACHINES
ONA EDM
CRM STRATEGY FOR THE BASQUE COUNTRY
UPV - EHU
CRUSHING, INERTISING AND RECYCLING LITHIUM-ION BATTERIES
INNOVATION TREE
DEVELOPING ADVANCED COMPONENTS FOR ENGINE SLEEVES
CENTRICAST
ECO-DESIGN OF CENTRIFUGAL PUMPS FOR OPTIMISED USE
EMICA PUMPS
ENERGY-EFFICIENT REMANUFACTURING OF HYDRAULIC PRESSES
FAGOR ARRASATE
HEAT IT YOURSELF FOR SUSTAINABILITY. CIRCULARITY IN ENERGY-INTENSIVE INDUSTRIES
CIC ENERGIGUNE
HIGH PURITY SECONDARY ALUMINIUM OXIDE FOR LED AND ELECTRONIC COMPONENT MANUFACTURING
BEFESA
HIGH-PERFORMANCE REFRACTORY ELEMENTS MADE FROM RECOVERED MATERIAL
DEGUISA
IMPROVED SCRAP AND WASTE MANAGEMENT
TUBACEX
INCREASING THE SERVICE LIFE OF ALUMINIUM FOUNDRY INGOT MOULDS
BEFESA
INNER AND OUTER PROTECTION OF THE PRECISION-CALIBRATED STEEL TUBE
HIJOS DE JUAN DE GARAY
INTEGRATED MANAGEMENT OF STEEL REFRACTORIES
SIDENOR