Recyclability

One of our clients in the aerospace industry wanted to define a recyclability strategy for its products by identifying the most critical materials and possible end-of-life processing routes.

To do this, our team identified all the parts contained in our client’s products and defined their end-of-life treatment criticality using a life cycle analysis and environmental risk assessment approach. Following this, our team identified the possible ways of recovering critical materials at the end of their life, taking into account the economic, technical and environmental aspects of each recovery channel, as well as the possibilities of incorporating recycled materials into production chains. Finally, our team identified industries offering sustainable solutions suitable for potential partnerships with our client.

Ultimately, our client was able to adapt its strategy for recyclability of critical materials and initiate their recovery.

Alcimed supported an environmental player in putting together a presentation pack for a technological platform for sorting waste as part of a Call for Expression of Interest.

This involved our team coaching the editorial team for several weeks on the management of the project and more particularly on the overall structuring of the pack, particularly at the offer level. At the same time, our team carried out a market study of the impact of the platform to help determine the possible pricing of the services offered.

This meant that our client was able to adapt their project to the requirements linked to the formalism imposed by the exercise, to submit a complete and finalized pack.

Possessing strong expertise in recycling and the circular economy, one of our clients, a CARNOT institute, wanted support to promote its skills to manufacturers and thus increase its activities on these themes.

To achieve this, our team helped our client to structure its research offer for industrial players and to identify the key markets and industrialists who could be interested. Then, our team tested the receptivity of manufacturers to this offer to define a strategy for accessing these markets.

Alcimed’s support enabled our client to formalize a presentation of its know-how in order to have an impact on identified manufacturers, as well as to define a commercial roadmap on these markets.

One of our clients in the agrifood industry wanted to obtain an overview of its competitive environment regarding sustainable packaging.

Our team analyzed companies in the industry regarding their practices in terms of communication on sustainable packaging for children’s products in 2 target countries.

Our support has enabled our client to have a precise vision of the behavior of other companies in the industry around the challenges of sustainable packaging and our project has enabled the definition of a communication roadmap set apart from that of its competition.

One of our customers, a MedTech player, wanted to improve the recyclability of its medical devices, in particular by improving its end-of-life management strategy.

To help them achieve this, we mapped out the regulations and the main players involved in managing the end-of-life and recycling of medical devices. We then worked on possible changes to these regulations and their impact on the value chain.

Based on the vision of the various market players (regulators, players involved in end-of-life management, pharmaceutical players, etc.), we worked on setting up a roadmap combining concrete actions and players to be mobilised in order to propose new, differentiating ways of managing the end of life of medical devices.

A player in the energy industry wanted to identify ways of recycling its permanent magnets.

To help them do this, we began by drawing up an overview of all the current and future technological avenues for recycling permanent magnets, from traditional methods such as remelting or hydrogen decomposition to less mature approaches such as electrochemical recycling. Our discussions with experts in these technologies enabled us to clearly identify the obstacles to be overcome in order to make these approaches relevant from an industrial point of view.

We then analysed developments in permanent magnet application markets in order to identify the main challenges in terms of industrial needs.

In the final stage, we worked with our client to set up scenarios to identify the conditions for success in setting up sustainable recycling channels.

Our team supported an industrial player in its circular economy initiative to identify and select different technological avenues that would allow it to re-use and recycle its production waste in its own production cycle.

We first produced a technological panorama presenting all the possible approaches for treating, recycling, and valorizing the materials considered, with no sectoral limits. We then analyzed these approaches according to their performance, maturity, and applicability to our client’s context in order to select the most relevant ones.

At the end of this stage, we identified on the most attractive approaches, a first selection of potential partners to support our client in its developments.

We supported a major player in the food industry in identifying potential partners who could enable it to offer alternatives to single-use packaging, with a focus on refillable and recyclable solutions.

In this search for more sustainable and recyclable packaging solutions, over 60 players covering several technologies have been identified, prioritized and deepened as part of a detailed characterization of their capacities and their openness to collaboration.

This enabled our client to have a clear operational roadmap regarding the players to be prioritized for implementing more sustainable and recyclable packaging solutions.

In order to align with its CSR goals but also to drive commercial innovation, we supported one of our clients, a manufacturer of medical devices, in deciphering the main stakes of oral and nasal administration devices recycling in France.

We first started by mapping the key players involved in the considered field in France. Then, through an in-depth literature analysis and targeted interviews with these key players, we evaluated how end-of-life management and recycling of these devices are currently handled and determined how and when the field may evolve according to regulations.

All in all, we identified relevant partners for our client in the space of the end-of-life management and recyclability of their devices and provided them with inspiration on the operating model developed by others. We also made recommendations on whether to implement recycling initiatives now for each device, and the most effective strategies to do so.