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Fraunhofer CCPE publishes position paper and research programme on plastics recycling
The Fraunhofer Cluster of Excellence Circular Plastics Economy CCPE has presented a position paper on the state of the art in science and technology of recycling technologies for plastics. The focus is on chemical recycling processes. A market analysis shows current...
Is your product ready for a Circular Economy?
Press Release / 15.09.2021 How can products and product systems be made more circular? Which fields of action play a role here? How can this be tested? Fraunhofer UMSICHT developed the Self-Check Tool Circular Readiness Level® (CRL) together with Fraunhofer IML...
Fraunhofer, SABIC, and Procter & Gamble join forces in closed-loop recycling pilot project for single-use face-masks
PRESS RELEASE / June 16, 2021 The Fraunhofer Cluster of Excellence Circular Plastics Economy CCPE and its Institute for Environmental, Safety and Energy Technology UMSICHT have developed an advanced recycling process for used plastics. The pilot project with SABIC and...
Fraunhofer CCPE compact – News for the circular plastics economy
Newsletter 01/2021 How can the transformation to a circular plastics economy succeed? Which innovations are winning the battle? How can materials and products be designed in a circular way? The answers require partners, creative ideas and experience from several...
Thanks to pyrolysis, even problematic plastics can be recycled
How can heavily contaminated or problematic plastics be recycled? CCPE scientists in the Research Department Advanced Recycling of the Systems Division are working on this question. Their research focuses on materials such as carbon fiber reinforced plastics (CFRP)...
Upcycling of Post-Consumer PLA Waste: A Gateway to “Circular Bio-Economy”
ICT Press Release Designed for performance and durability, synthetic plastics have become indispensable as “materials of every-day use”. However, their indiscriminate disposal has led to an acute problem of plastic pollution. In order to solve this issue, the European...
With a joint research agenda for a circular plastics industry: “CCPE has achieved very good results in its first year”
Interview 23. March 2020 Shaping the change from a linear to a circular plastics economy together – with this objective, the five Fraunhofer Institutes IAP, ICT, IML, LBF and UMSICHT joined forces at the end of 2018 to form the Cluster Circular Plastics Economy CCPE....
Fraunhofer IVV complements Fraunhofer Cluster CCPE
© Fraunhofer UMSICHT Prof. Dr. Andrea Büttner Since January 1, 2020, the Fraunhofer Institute for Process Engineering and Packaging IVV has been the sixth institute to join the Fraunhofer Cluster Circular Plastics Economy CCPE. “I am delighted that IVV can...
Interview: “It is neither possible nor reasonable to dispense with plastic.”
The Fraunhofer Institutes UMSICHT, IAP, ICT, IML and LBF are committed to creating a circular plastics industry. As a Cluster of Excellence Circular Plastics Economy CCPE for short – they want to develop prototypes for new plastics, additives and compounds. They...
Circular plastics economy: Things are rolling smoothly for plastics
Press release / 20.9.2019 The global release of plastics into the environment must be stopped. The Fraunhofer Cluster of Excellence Circular Plastics Economy CCPE concerns itself with how plastic must be designed so that it can be recycled, degraded quickly and...