Project description
Renewing the electronics industry for a green Europe
The electronics industry has emerged as one of the primary focal points of the European Green Deal and other environmentally conscious initiatives. The industry’s concerning surge in waste production, along with the unsustainable demand for raw materials within its value chains, has raised alarm bells, particularly in light of the increasing impact of climate change. The EU-funded SUSTRONICS project seeks to revitalise the European electronics industry and facilitate its alignment with these objectives. The project’s primary objective is to redesign electronics with a focus on implementing circular value chains, enhancing reusability, incorporating eco-design principles, using bio-based materials and improving recyclability. Ultimately, the project aims to validate its feasibility through a pilot programme centred around the redesign of medical and industrial electronics.
Objective
The EU requires also electronics industry to achieve the ambitious goals of the EU Green Deal, Circular Economy Action Plan and Industrial Strategy for reduction of energy and material consumption, and utilization of circular value chains. Sustronics project is targeting to improve capabilities of European electronics industry to meet these goals and develop new business opportunities from sustainable and greener electronics combined with increase in productivity and new functionalities.
The current electronic industry poses significant environmental impacts, such as increasing amount of e-waste, great demand for critical raw materials, and high energy consumption during manufacturing. Electronics industry can specifically decrease its environmental burden by shifting from fossil-based materials to bio-based materials, decreasing use of metals, utilizing additive manufacturing processes, and developing miniaturized and integrated components, but also in broader scope by utilizing efficient circular economy business models that enable reuse, recycle and repair of critical materials and components.
Sustronics main goal is to support renewal of European electronics industry towards circular economy, eco-design, bio-based materials, and material- and energy-efficient manufacturing processes. Thereby, Sustronics will re-design electronics products into circular, compostable and reusable products, and demonstrate that there are business opportunities in sustainable electronics.
Quantification of environmental impact, definition of business models, involvement of external stakeholders, and means to guarantee compatibility with policies and standards will guide the project implementation. The pilots will focus on healthcare, diagnostics, and industrial sectors, including topics such as medical and personal health devices, single-use and wearable diagnostics, sustainable lighting solutions and embedded electronics for automotive.
Fields of science
- engineering and technologyenvironmental engineeringmining and mineral processing
- social scienceseconomics and businessbusiness and managementbusiness models
- social scienceseconomics and businesseconomicsproduction economicsproductivity
- engineering and technologymechanical engineeringmanufacturing engineeringadditive manufacturing
- social scienceseconomics and businesseconomicssustainable economy
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5656 AG Eindhoven
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5684 PC Best
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2595 DA Den Haag
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5656 AE Eindhoven
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5652 CV Eindhoven
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1014 BV Amsterdam
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9500 Villach
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8010 Graz
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8010 Graz
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8054 Seiersberg-Pirka
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85579 Neubiberg
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74676 Niedernhall
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32339 Espelkamp
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82008 Unterhaching
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22761 Hamburg
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80686 Munchen
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21073 Hamburg
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24118 Kiel
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28006 Madrid
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08290 Barcelona
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28050 MADRID
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43003 Tarragona
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02150 Espoo
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33100 Tampere
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00390 Helsinki
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33310 Tampere
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02940 Espoo
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12400 Tervakoski
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65230 Vaasa
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90620 Oulu
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75015 PARIS 15
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33710 Pugnac
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92000 Nanterre
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1006 Riga
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80-233 GDANSK
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4800-058 Guimaraes
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1050-059 Lisboa
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501 15 Boras
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25022 Helsingborg
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542 34 Mariestad
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405 30 Goeteborg
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405 03 GOTEBORG
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611 31 NYKOPING
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2000 Neuchatel
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4054 Basel
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1071 St-Saphorin-Lavaux
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