The CIRCit team will attend the 11th International Symposium on Environmentally Conscious Design and Inverse Manufacturing in Yokohama, Japan.

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The purpose of EcoDesign symposium is to bring together worldwide professionals interested in advancing the state of the art in Eco-Design for exchanging knowledge that encompasses a broad range of disciplines among various distinct communities. In the symposiums, the latest issues on Eco-Design have been discussed. Professionals from industry, research laboratories, consulting, government, and academia are encouraged to attend.

The following abract has been accepted as part of the conference proceeding and a conference paper will be published after the symposium:

Guidelines for circular product design and development: action research in Nordic industry
Shahbazi, S. Department of product realization, RISE IVF, Stockholm, Sweden.

Abstract:
Product design and development is a key to move towards circular economy, which affect different areas such as value chain, innovative business model and waste management. However, circular economy is not well established in the domain of product design and development, and circularity aspects are not yet properly considered in design phase. This paper presents a set of generic design guidelines for different circular strategies. The guidelines have been developed, validated and tested at four companies within the Nordic countries. Raw materials and sourcing is the most common strategies among the studied companies which can be justified with the existing standards, regulations and legislations.