Yesterday’s online event on Digital Product Passports (DPPs), co-hosted by the RecAL and DATA4CIRC projects, gathered over 286 participants from across Europe. The session brought together experts from EU-funded DPP initiatives—RecAL, DATA4CIRC, CIRPASS-2, COMPASS—and policymakers to discuss how DPPs can drive sustainability and circularity in European industries.
RecAL invites you to a collaborative online event dedicated to the future of Digital Product Passports in EU research and policy.
In a significant advancement for the steel industry, Swerim, in partnership with Stena Aluminium, has demonstrated a breakthrough by successfully utilizing upcycled salt slag—a hazardous waste byproduct from melted end-of-life aluminium scrap—in steelmaking.
The way we think of modern assembly lines is far away from how they looked at their inception. Now, instead of a line of different persons each repeating the same task over and over again, we have automated mechanical arms. However, the concept has not changed: each robot on the assembly line repeats the same task or task set on each component that appears in its range of action.
The RecAL Project recently showcased its pioneering work in manufacturing optimization and sustainable materials innovation at three major international conferences. From aluminium recycling breakthroughs in London to collaborative industrial tech solutions in Kraków, these engagements underscored RecAL’s role as a leader in bridging academic research with real-world industrial applications.
EVs need aluminum with high conductivity (1xxx), for which there is currently no secondary market. Besides, the biggest shift will be in the aluminum recycling cycle itself. With the combustion-engines ban, the established “sink” for low-quality aluminum scrap based on the A226 alloy will disappear, leaving a large part of this waste stream without a final destination.