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Deliverables
Original research objectives: The objectives of MADAME have been to develop a method and a database for environmental assessment of four metal finishing processes including manufacturing, use phase of surface treated products and recycling or scrapping of the products. The results should give a reasonable correct picture, but yet be simple enough to use for SME suppliers of metal finishing.
Expected deliverables: The aim has been to create a common language on environmental issues for the purchase and design departments in large companies on the one hand and small and medium-sized metal finishing companies on the other hand.
Project's actual outcome ( in terms of technical achievements or if appropriate task per task): The final results are:
- Full life cycle assessment (LCA) of four metal finishing processes.
- Full LCA of five metal finished products and partial LCA of another five metal finished products.
- Full overview of the recycling possibilities of metal finished products.
- An outline of a simplified assessment method for describing the environmental impacts of metal finished products.
- A logical and easily updated structure of collected data with full quality documentation.
- Acceptance of the results by the metal finishing trade organisations in Sweden and Spain taking responsibility for the further exploitation of results.
- An educational package on the results in the form of an Internet web site; http://www.syf.se and http://www.sidasa.com.
- Scientific peer review of the full LCA studies.
- Future co-operation on creating a script (user interface) for metal finishing in order to facilitate advanced LCA for other metal finishing processes and metal finished products than those studied in MADAME.
Broad dissemination and use intentions for the expected outputs (such as industrial development, standards, regulations and norms, improvement of environment, health, working conditions, employment, net economic benefits, etc): The MADAME results will be used to
1 Prolong the product life time by improved functionality, quality and reliability.
2 Reduce the consumption of energy.
3 Reduce the consumption of metals.
4 Improve the possibilities to recycle metal finished products.
5 Improve the environmental standards of the metal finishing processes.
Accomplishing this, large cost savings for companies and society will follow.
The technological and commercial potentials are
- A common view on environmental issues in the European metal finishing industry focusing on measures to reduce energy and metal consumption in a life cycle perspective.
- Close co-operation between metal finishing SMEs on the one side and purchase and design departments at large companies on the other side, ensuring better end quality of products, safer jobs and less environmental impact.
- Environmental indexes to communicate to the customers.
The two years of MADAME have given a positive and realistic perspective for the industrial exploitation of the results. It will take another 2-3 years before the results can be fully exploited. The partners are however continuously committed to the objectives of MADAME.
Exploitable results
The aim has been to create a common language on environmental issues for the purchase and design departments in large companies, and small and medium-sized metal finishing companies.
The MADAME results will be used to:
-Prolong the product lifetime by improving the functionality, quality and reliability.
-Reduce the consumption of energy.
-Reduce the consumption of metals.
-Improve the possibilities to recycle metal finished products.
-Improve the environmental standards of the metal finishing processes.
-Accomplishing this, large cost savings for companies and society will follow.
The technological and commercial potentials are:
-A common view on environmental issues in the European metal finishing industry focusing on measures to reduce energy and metal consumption in a life cycle perspective.
-Close co-operation between metal finishing SMEs on the one side and purchase and design departments at large companies on the other side, ensuring better end quality of products, safer jobs and less environmental impact.
-Environmental indexes to communicate to the customers.
The market for environmentally competitive surface treatment SMEs will increase rapidly. The MADAME results will be used to:
-Gain new customers for SMEs by supplying an environmental verification of their products and verify the environmental policies of companies buying surface treatment services, for instance, in the ISO 14001 certification, and clarify which are the large environmental impacts of surface treatment and decrease the environmental impacts of surface treatment in Europe. The trade organisation of the metal finishing industries in Sweden together with Sidasa in Spain will take full reasonability for the MADAME results. They will market them towards the industry through their web site. Sidasa will mainly work through CIPN.
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