Abstract: FM Logistic is an international leader in logistics, present in 14 countries with 27,200 collaborators and 1.3 Billion € revenue. Sustainability is becoming an important driver both in handling and transportation activities. National and local regulations constraints, recruitment difficulties in Europe, customers requests on green aspects thanks to end consumers growing concern. Sustainability is not only a market requirement but still a strong differentiator in logistics sector. FM Logistic aims to take one leadership in this positioning.

CV: Charlotte Migne started her career in Sustainable Development within the Accor Group between 2004 and 2006. She then joined the consulting firm Capgemini Consulting where she carried out several organizational and strategic missions for major transport and energy companies. In 2010, she joined the Edenred Group (formerly Accor Services), a global leader in prepaid service vouchers, as Corporate Social Responsibility Director and then, as from 2014, Corporate Social Responsibility and HR Director. In 2017, she was appointed Group Sustainable Development Director at FM Logistic. Since then, she is in charge of the Group policy regarding health and safety at work, environment and the development of FM Logistic sustainable offer.

Abstract: All human activities and prosperity of our societies depend on the availability of raw materials (mineral resources) and energy. The quantity of consumed base metals has been increasing at 3 à 5% during the last century, entailing a doubling of demand every fifteen to twenty years. If we continue the trend, more metal will have to be found in the next 30 years than it has been ever extracted. The shift toward low-carbon energy and sky-rocketed development of numerical technologies add new needs. The dynamic modelling of i) future global demand as a function of average per-capita GDP, population and technologies evolution, and ii) production as a function of ore future deposits quality and recycling capacity shed light on the necessary improvements along the lifecycle of raw materials to cope with the expected evolution of demand.

CV: Olivier Vidal is a CNRS-INSU researcher at the Institut des Sciences de la Terre, Grenoble. After a PhD in experimental mineralogy, he specialised in the thermodynamic and kinetic modelling of mineral reactions, with applications in the fields of Earth geodynamics, storage of radioactive waste or CO2, and natural hydrogen production. His research is now focused on the energy-raw materials nexus in the context of energy transition to a low-carbon society. He has been scientific coordinator of the European network ERA-MIN on the industrial handling of non-energy raw materials (http://www.era-min-eu.org/), and he is involved in several multidisciplinary projects in collaboration with economists.

Abstract: Promoting circular manufacturing of products is a key in achieving a circular economy. While circular manufacturing has been advanced in the last decades both in research and practices, there still exist barriers and challenges to address to further enhance the resource efficiencies of product life cycles. The main challenges today include the digitalization and globalization. Developing a further sophisticated closed-loops of products, their components, and materials is required, and the advancements of digital technologies provide the opportunities for the development. Also, extending the scope of the value chains of circular manufacturing from local to global gives opportunities to enhance resource efficiencies. The trends and challenges are presented based on the cases.

CV: Dr. Mitsutaka Matsumoto is a senior researcher at AMRI (Advanced Manufacturing Research Institute) of AIST (National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology), Japan. Since he started working with AIST in 2006, he has been working on research and development in product life cycle engineering, remanufacturing, and research policy and management. In the last 5 years, he has been leading R&D projects on remanufacturing. He has also been involved in organizing Going Green EcoDesign conference which has been held in Japan and Asian countries biyearly.

Abstract: Urbanization and the limited environmental carrying capacity of our planet are crucial challenges for human kind. Industrial value creation and the production of goods have a significant role in the worldwide emissions pattern. A biologically oriented conception of technical systems with the goal of a sustainable added value is summarized as "biological transformation". By bringing together the concentration of consumption, waste generation and more, in urban areas, with the biologicalisation of industrial value creation an opportunity arises to actively create bio-based positive urban production. Based on the principles of the biological transformation a framework is derived, stretching the design space between spatial urban levels and production life cycle stages, thereby fostering positive bio-based urban production. The design space is then applied, allocating current realization and envisioned cases as well as giving recommendations for future research topics.

CV: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Christoph Herrmann is university professor for Sustainable Manufacturing & Life Cycle Engineering and co-director of IWF, Institute of Machine Tools and Production Technology, Technische Universität Braunschweig as well as director of the Fraunhofer Institute for Surface Engineering and Thin Films IST. Professor Herrmann has conducted various industry and research projects in the context of life cycle engineering and sustainable manufacturing on national and international level. He has published more than 300 papers and book publications as author, co-other and editor. Professor Herrmann is member of the International Academy for Production Engineering (CIRP).

Abstract: MTB Group is based on a unique business model of recycling operator and recycling equipment manufacturer. For 40 years, MTB has been offering innovative and tailor-made recycling solutions for complex products all over the world. For the past two years, MTB Group has introduced an eco-design offer for industrial partners in order to support them towards the circular economy model.

CV: Guilhem Grimaud, eco-design expert, has a PhD degree in industrial environmental performance and has been working for MTB Group for 5 years as the eco-innovation.

Abstract: In response to growing materials challenges, there is a need to address those challenges at a national level with clear goals and objectives. In 2017 the REMADE Institute was formed as a public/private partnership focused on developing transformational technologies to accelerate the transition to a Circular Economy for plastics, metals, fibers and e-waste. The institute is funded through a cooperative agreement with the Department of Energy with $70 Million in Federal funding and $70 Million in private funding for the first 5 years. This presentation will provide an overview of the newly established REMADE Institute and its technology strategy. REMADE seeks to enable early stage applied research and development of key industrial platform technologies that could dramatically reduce the embodied energy, emissions, and waste and increase material availability associated with industrial-scale materials production and processing. Eliminate and/or mitigate technical and economic barriers that prevent greater material recycling, recovery, remanufacturing, & reuse.

CV: Dr. Nabil Nasr is Associate Provost for Academic Affairs and Director of Golisano Institute for Sustainability at Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT). He also founded RIT’s Center for Remanufacturing and Resource Recovery, a leading source of applied research and solutions in remanufacturing technologies. Dr. Nasr’s research interests focus on remanufacturing, circular economy, life cycle engineering, cleaner production and sustainable product development, and he is considered an international leader in research and development efforts in those disciplines. Nasr is also the founding Chief Executive Officer of the REMADE Institute, providing oversight of node-level research roadmap development as well as corporate engagement of the Institute’s largest industrial partners. This national coalition is working on new clean energy initiatives, focusing on driving down the cost of technologies essential to reuse, recycle and remanufacture materials such as metals, fibers, polymers and electronic waste. Dr. Nasr currently serves as a member of the International Resource Panel of the United Nations Environment Programme. In addition, he has been an expert delegate with the U.S. Government in several international forums such as the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC), United Nations, World Trade Organization, and the OECD. He holds an MS and PhD in Industrial & Systems Engineering from Rutgers University.