Sustainable manufacturing

Grundfos: How to make new product designs and technologies sustainable – with almost no data?

How do you discuss sustainability in the earliest design phases when you have hardly any data to go by? This is an important question, as 80 percent of the environmental impact of products stems from the very early design phases. In a MADE research project with Grundfos and DTU, PhD Giácomo Parolin is working to find the answer.

How do you discuss sustainability in the earliest design phases when you have hardly any data to go by? This is an important question, as 80 percent of the environmental impact of products stems from the very early design phases. In a MADE research project with Grundfos and DTU, PhD Giácomo Parolin is working to find the answer.

Five tech trends of tomorrow in manufacturing

How will the products of tomorrow be manufactured? During a MADE session at the Tech Trends of Tomorrow conference, experts from around the world lifted the veil on trends set to reshape manufacturing in the future.

How will the products of tomorrow be manufactured? During a MADE session at the Tech Trends of Tomorrow conference, experts from around the world lifted the veil on trends set to reshape manufacturing in the future.

See the winners of the Otto Mønsted Foundation’s MADE Award 2022

The winners of the Otto Mønsted Foundation’s MADE Award 2022 was announced on stage at the annual MADE event on November 1st. See who won the first and second prize for research that solves or has the potential to solve industrial challenges.

The winners of the Otto Mønsted Foundation’s MADE Award 2022 was announced on stage at the annual MADE event on November 1st. See who won the first and second prize for research that solves or has the potential to solve industrial challenges.

Who will win the Otto Mønsted Foundation’s MADE Award 2022?

Five MADE researchers are nominated for The Otto Mønsted Foundation's MADE Award 2022. Learn about their groundbreaking ideas that solves or has the potential to solve industrial challenges.

Five MADE researchers are nominated for The Otto Mønsted Foundation’s MADE Award 2022. Learn about their groundbreaking ideas that solves or has the potential to solve industrial challenges.

It’s time for the small and medium-sized enterprises to join the circular economy

The concept of circular economy contains enormous potential for society and corporations by reducing the environmental impact of production, reducing cost, and creating new business opportunities.

The concept of circular economy contains enormous potential for society and corporations by reducing the environmental impact of production, reducing cost, and creating new business opportunities.

Transforming BKI Foods’ production: QR-codes, reusable coffee bags and roasting data

Denmark’s largest producer of coffee, BKI Foods, has been on a 20-year long journey to digitize their manufacturing process and make it more environmentally friendly. Among the results are the invention of a reusable coffee bag, a new roasting process which reduces energy consumption by 20 pct. and a QR-system which eliminates failures in the packaging process by 95 pct.

Denmark’s largest producer of coffee, BKI Foods, has been on a 20-year long journey to digitize their manufacturing process and make it more environmentally friendly. Among the results are the invention of a reusable coffee bag, a new roasting process which reduces energy consumption by 20 pct. and a QR-system which eliminates failures in the packaging process by 95 pct.

Podcasts

Are we going to build houses with reusable building-blocks?

How can we earn money on trash and by producing fewer new products? In the podcast series Industriens Genbrugsguld (Danish speak) MADE visits Danish front runners who have thrown themselves into making circular productions. One of them is REXCON that has an idea how to reuse building materials again, and again and again.

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How can we earn money on trash and by producing fewer new products? In the podcast series Industriens Genbrugsguld (Danish speak) MADE visits Danish front runners who have thrown themselves into making circular productions. One of them is REXCON that has an idea how to reuse building materials again, and again and again.

Podcasts

How can industrial waste become a gold mine?

How can we make money on waste and on producing less new products? In the podcastseries ‘Industriens Genbrugsguld’ (Danish speak), we learn about circular business models and the sustainable production of the future.

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How can we make money on waste and on producing less new products? In the podcastseries ‘Industriens Genbrugsguld’ (Danish speak), we learn about circular business models and the sustainable production of the future.

C-Voucher launches first open call and looks for SMEs with circularity ambitions

C-Voucher is the first pan-European initiative, funded by the European Commission, adopting the concept of the Circular Economy to transform linear value chains (cradle to waste) towards circular models (cradle to cradle®).

C-Voucher is the first pan-European initiative, funded by the European Commission, adopting the concept of the Circular Economy to transform linear value chains (cradle to waste) towards circular models (cradle to cradle®).

Merete Nørby

International Senior Consultant, Ph.D.

MADE - Manufacturing Academy of Denmark

mnorby@made.dk

+45 2112 3991