Structural reuse offers a promising alternative to traditional composite recycling by keeping the original material intact and enabling it to be used again in new applications. Thermoplastic-reinforced composites, in particular, open the door to innovative… Reverse forming thermoplastic composites
This document supports IEA Wind Task 45: Recycling Wind Turbine Blades, focusing on opportunities to reuse, repurpose, recycle, and recover materials from end-of-life blades. It brings together insights from a dedicated workshop and expert meetings… Recycling wind turbine blades
Circular Composites: A design guide for products containing composite materials in a circular economy Composites are increasingly used to optimize the performance of applications as their properties can be tuned to achieve the desired functionality.… Circular Composites
Circular Design of Composite Products: A Framework Based on Insights from Literature and Industry Composite materials are an attractive material choice as they enable lightweight, low-maintenance products with a long lifespan. Recycling these materials, however,… Circular design framework
Project Ecobuk aims to demonstrate a Circular Economy for products containing composite materials. Together with partners from industry and knowledge institutes across Europe, we re-design case products from automotive, building and furniture sectors. The progress… Ecobulk progress reports
What if we could add value by repairing a product? We put the idea to test by repairing a broken bowl. Conny Bakker and Marcel den Hollander explored the idea in a series of Value… Value Added Repair
In a sailing match, sailors face varying environmental conditions and exercise levels. Especially the single-handed dinghy sailors experience a very large difference between the upwind and downwind legs, affecting their thermal comfort. Thermal comfort is… Sailing gear
Nice, having coffee at just the push of a button. Even better if it includes an automated bean grinder. But, what’s the fun in that? And do you really appreciate that quick shot of caffeine?… Café Vuoto
The Original S-350 circular table saw was imported by PEULEN B.V., Rotterdam. The design project aimed to improve the machine in accuracy, looks and usability and resulted in the release of the S-350P edition. The… Circular table saw