#79 Stjernholm - Sand washer allows for reusing sand and manure for biogas - CIRCit Nord Danish Stjernholm offers a sand washing system that allows for more than 90% reuse of sandy manure mixtures. CIRCit Nord #78 Filippa K - Slow fashion for a longer product lifetime - CIRCit Nord The Swedish clothing company Filippa K creates long lasting garments, made using a large amount of recycled materials. CIRCit Nord #77 Rexcon System - Modular and circular building blocks - CIRCit Nord REXCON System has designed the modular and foldable building block, ReBLOCK, which enables more circular construction of outer walls. CIRCit Nord #76 Hygglo - Sharing platform for tools and other equipment - CIRCit Nord The Swedish sharing platform, Hygglo, makes it easy to rent tools and equipment when you need it on a daily basis. CIRCit Nord #75 SKF RecondOil - a circular use of industrial oil - CIRCit Nord SKF RecondOil’s patented Double Separation Technology (DST) enables completely circular recovery and reuse of industrial lubrication oil. CIRCit Nord #74 Re-Match - Recycling of synthetic turf pitches - CIRCit Nord The Danish company Re-Match is the first and only company to develop a technology that is able to recycle 95 % of worn out synthetic turf pitches. CIRCit Nord #73 NCP - Delivering quality furniture in a sustainable way - CIRCit Nord The Norwegian company delivers furniture products by incorporating recycled materials and creates awareness about circular economy. CIRCit Nord #72 Tarpaper Recycling - Recycling of used roofing felt into asphalt - CIRCit Nord Tarpaper Recycling utilises the value of bitumen from used roof felts in the production of asphalt. CIRCit Nord #71 Stena Recycling - Circular Initiative for industrial collaboration - CIRCit Nord Stena Recycling started the Circular Initiative inviting leading industrial companies for collaboration towards more resource-efficiency and circular economy. CIRCit Nord #70 Komproment – Reusable and recyclable roof and facade systems - CIRCit Nord Komproment develops roof and facade systems that are easily separable and can be reused or recycled. CIRCit Nord #69 ECRIS AB – Resource efficient automotive component remanufacturing - CIRCit Nord ECRIS remanufactures automotive components on industrial level with low environmental footprint CIRCit Nord #68 Ovako - Making high quality steel from steel scrap - CIRCit Nord Ovako produces steel from scrap and utilises the by-products from production in asphalt. CIRCit Nord #67 66°North – Versatile and long-lasting outdoor wear - CIRCit Nord 66°North was founded in Iceland in 1926 and design and produce outdoor wear with the philosophy that they should last for as long as possible. CIRCit Nord #66 Brightr Group x Odd Fellow Palace - CIRCit Nord Brightr Group substitutes existing lighting with their holistic LED solutions reducing environmental and financial impact. CIRCit Nord #65 Atmonia - Carbon-free ammonia fertilizers - CIRCit Nord Icelandic Atmonia is developing a carbon-free technology to produce ammonia and N-fertilizers, vital for sustainable food production. CIRCit Nord #64 Shark Solutions - Recycling of PVB polymer from windshields - CIRCit Nord Shark Solutions recycle broken windshields and architectural/building glass, which gives both the glass and the PVB polymer interlayer a second life in new sustainable products and keep the broken glass out of landfills. CIRCit Nord #63 Blade Solutions - prolong the lifetime of wind turbines - CIRCit Nord The Swedish company Blade Solutions has developed new solutions for repairing damages on wind turbine blades which prolongs the blades’ lifetime. CIRCit Nord #62 KALK - sustainable lime products for the building sector - CIRCit Nord The Danish company KALK has obtained a Cradle to Cradle gold certificate and produces environmentally friendly lime products. CIRCit Nord #61 Framery - High quality pods from eco-efficient materials - CIRCit Nord Framery ensures flexible open-plan offices with its pods, made largely of renewable, locally sourced or recycled materials. CIRCit Nord #60 Ege Carpets – Carpets from recycled materials - CIRCit Nord Ege Carpets uses a range of different recycled materials for its carpets and considers resource efficiency in production. CIRCit Nord #59 Off2Off - Platform-assisted furniture reuse - CIRCit Nord Off2Off facilitates structured reuse of corporate interiors through their cloud-based platform. CIRCit Nord #58 CPH Village – From shipping containers to livable communities - CIRCit Nord Danish CPH Village transforms wasted containers from the shipping industry into flexible, livable container villages in areas with housing shortage. CIRCit Nord #57 Bioretur AS - Converting waste from fish farming into fertiliser - CIRCit Nord Bioretur AS offers technical equipment, daily operation, monitoring of treatment plants, and handling of the fish sludge, for land-based aquaculture. CIRCit Nord #56 Touchpoint - functional workwear from recycled materials - CIRCit Nord Touchpoint produces functional workwear using more than 80% recycled materials, like plastic from plastic bottles. CIRCit Nord #55 Bang & Olufsen – Timeless design, durable luxury products - CIRCit Nord Bang & Olufsen offers luxury headphones, speakers and televisions in high quality materials, precision-crafted components and timeless design. CIRCit Nord #54 Greve Biogass & Vesar – From waste to food and biogas - CIRCit Nord The Magic Factory handles 135 000 tonnes of food waste and manure each year which are recycled into new food and 9 million Nm3 of biomethane. CIRCit Nord #53 Saltverk – producing sea salt using 100% geothermal energy - CIRCit Nord Saltverk uses a centuries old technique to produce Icelandic flake sea salt with geothermal energy. CIRCit Nord #52 PLASTIX - saves plastics, CO2 emissions and the environment - CIRCit Nord Danish PLASTIX recycles used fishing nets and ropes into new plastic material, therein preventively combatting ocean plastic waste and reducing CO2 emissions. CIRCit Nord #51 Houdini Sportswear - Repair, recycling and access-over-ownership - CIRCit Nord Sustainability and functionality go hand-in-hand for Houdini, through renting, repair and recycling of high quality outdoor clothing. CIRCit Nord #50 Too good to go - An app that prevents food waste - CIRCit Nord The Danish food waste preventer, Too Good To Go, enables restaurants and food shops to sell surplus food at a discount, via an app that has already saved 36 million meals! CIRCit Nord #49 WasteIQ - Smart waste management by pay-as-you-throw - CIRCit Nord WasteIQ is a platform to monitor and track events, transactions, and movements in smart waste management. The system is integrated with smart containers and enables pay-as-you-throw business models. CIRCit Nord #48 ICA - Goodbye to single-use plastic products - CIRCit Nord The Swedish grocery chain, ICA Group, is taking several steps to minimise its use of plastics and is just about to initiate its fossil-free adventure. CIRCit Nord #47 Carlsberg & Paboco – Bottles from bio-based fibre - CIRCit Nord To offer a more environmentally friendly alternative to plastic packaging, Carlsberg and Paboco are developing a bottle made from wood fibre - The Green Fibre Bottle. CIRCit Nord #46 Nudie Jeans - Extending the life of jeans through repair - CIRCit Nord Responsible sourcing, efficiency, recycling and various forms of repair and reuse are at the heart of Nudie’s approach to circular economy. CIRCit Nord #45 Fischer Lighting - Refurbishing old Lighting Fixtures - CIRCit Nord Danish Fischer Lighting makes value from waste by buying, refurbishing, and reselling old lighting fixtures, reducing CO2 emissions by 42 %. CIRCit Nord #44 Flokk - Ergonomically and environmentally friendly chairs - CIRCit Nord Flokk designs high-quality workplace furniture with body and the environment in mind. In 2019, Flokk used 645 tonnes of recycled plastics in its products. CIRCit Nord #43 GIAB - Recirculation of products from insurance industry - CIRCit Nord GIAB facilitates recirculation of damaged products from the insurance industry through their initiative "Circular Insurance". CIRCit Nord #42 Glomma Industrier – Office Furniture refurbishment for extended lifetime - CIRCit Nord Glomma Industrier offers office/general use furniture refurbishment to extend the lifetime of old furniture and keep it in the loop for as long as possible. CIRCit Nord #41 Danfoss Food Retail & Microsoft - CIRCit Nord With the Alsense Cloud, supermarkets can reduce food loss by up to 40% and optimise their operational efficiency through refrigeration management, using IoT. CIRCit Nord #40 Norilia - Side-stream refinement in meat and egg industries - CIRCit Nord Norilia is minimising waste from livestock farming by utilising and refining side-streams from meat and egg production. CIRCit Nord #39 Agito Medical - Reselling pre-owned medical equipment - CIRCit Nord AGITO Medical sells pre-owned medical imaging equipment and spare parts to European hospitals, clinics and distributors, thus providing medical equipment to less privileged customers worldwide. CIRCit Nord #38 Etac - high quality mobility aids designed for durability and reconditioning - CIRCit Nord Etac offers high quality mobility aids that are designed for superior ergonomics, durability and reuse, all reflecting the corporate intention to positively contribute to sustainability and circular economy. CIRCit Nord #37 UniCarriers Denmark – Flexible solutions and longer life of industrial trucks - CIRCit Nord UniCarriers Denmark – Flexible solutions and longer life of industrial trucksOpe - Dynamic workplaces with reduced waste CIRCit Nord #36 Ope - Dynamic workplaces with reduced waste - CIRCit Nord Ope offers furniture as a service for optimisation of rapidly changing office environments, while reducing both waste and cost. CIRCit Nord #35 Refurb – Repair, refurbishment and resale of used IT - CIRCit Nord Refurb buys used IT equipment and repairs, refurbishes and sells it. The purpose is to make an alternative to new IT. CIRCit Nord #34 Pure Waste Textiles – Reusing fibre waste from manufacturing - CIRCit Nord Pure Waste Textiles produces garments from 100% recycled materials – cotton waste from textile factories and recycled polyester. CIRCit Nord #33 ROCKWOOL and RGS Nordic – New products from waste - CIRCit Nord A partnership that turns used stone wool into new, high-quality stone wool insulation. CIRCit Nord #32 Suunto – Durable and repairable outdoor electronics - CIRCit Nord Durability, robustness and repairability are essential when offering electronics for outdoor environments. CIRCit Nord #31 Bergans – “Long live the (outdoor) product” - CIRCit Nord Outdoor brand Bergans employs a number of circular strategies, such as rental, repair, return, reuse and recycling, across its product range. CIRCit Nord #30 Advance nonwoven – A true fiber recycling adventure - CIRCit Nord Seaweed, wasted clothes and newspapers can be turned into non-woven sheets, suitable for a range of applications, among which is the construction sector. CIRCit Nord #29 Tetra Pak Rex – A beverage carton from 100% renewables - CIRCit Nord Tetra Rex Biobased - a great step towards circularity with a beverage carton entirely made from renewable materials. CIRCit Nord #28 Vestre - Circular business models for long-lasting outdoor furniture - CIRCit Nord Combining furniture-as-a service with long-lasting products and sustainable manufacturing for customer value and improved resource intensity. CIRCit Nord #27 Bycyklen – Bike sharing scheme for city commuting - CIRCit Nord Sharing and using products more intensively are important aspects of the circular economy. Bycyklen offers a transport solution that is based on these principles. CIRCit Nord #26 Kalundborg Symbiosis – Manufacturing by-products become resources - CIRCit Nord In the Danish town of Kalundborg, one can find the world’s first large-scale industrial symbiosis scheme, where various manufacturing facilities exchange by-products. CIRCit Nord #25 Gypsum Recycling – Recycling factories-on-wheels - CIRCit Nord To reduce construction and demolition waste, Gypsum Recycling has implemented a collection and recycling system that uses mobile recycling units. CIRCit Nord #24 Globe Hope – Raw materials upcycled into new items - CIRCit Nord Globe Hope designs and produces a range of products from recycled and discarded materials, through cascaded-use, otherwise known as ‘upcycling.’ CIRCit Nord #23 GHform – Outdoor furniture as ‘material storage’ - CIRCit Nord GHform is experimenting with a new leasing offering that aims to extend the life of its already long-lived products and materials. CIRCit Nord #22 North Trampoline - Durable and repairable trampolines of 100% recyclable materials - CIRCit Nord North Trampoline - Durable and repairable trampolines of 100% recyclable materials CIRCit Nord #21 Martela – Furniture for multiple cycles - CIRCit Nord From rental to lease, from repair to refurbishment, and from collection to recycling: Martela does it all. CIRCit Nord #20 Lillelam - Baby and children’s clothes for a lifetime - CIRCit Nord Lillelam combines conscious choices of materials with expertise in designing for long-life, to deliver high quality, durable and premium clothes to mothers and their babies. CIRCit Nord #19 Löfbergs – Coffee company with extended value chain responsibility - CIRCit Nord Löfbergs offers high-quality sustainable coffee by assuming extended responsibility along the entire coffee value chain, from farms to consumers and beyond. CIRCit Nord #18 Inrego - Old IT equipment is the New New - CIRCit Nord Inrego brings reinvented IT from Sweden to the world, creating a smarter circular solution for the technology that powers our lives. CIRCit Nord #17 Polarn O. Pyret – Durable children’s clothing fit for reuse - CIRCit Nord Children’s clothing with long-lasting garments, encouraging customers to reuse, transform and use again. CIRCit Nord #16 Konecranes - Longer life and better service - CIRCit Nord Konecranes combines product life extension with the Internet of Things to replace components when necessary, and not when the calendar dictates. CIRCit Nord #15 HS Orka’s Resource Park – Power plants that do much more - CIRCit Nord This example of Icelandic industrial symbiosis shows how co- and by-products from one business can benefit multiple other businesses. CIRCit Nord #14 IKEA – Improved recyclability of packaging - CIRCit Nord IKEA has reduced its use of EPS packaging filler by 8,000 tonnes per year, by replacing it with a fibre-based recyclable that uses a honeycomb design. CIRCit Nord #13 Vigga – Organic maternity and baby clothes on subscription - CIRCit Nord Renting the otherwise short-lived items of maternity and baby clothing makes sense from a resource perspective and offers cost-savings for the customer. CIRCit Nord #12 H&M – Rethinking raw materials for fibre manufacture - CIRCit Nord Being the world’s second largest user of recycled polyester is not H&M’s only circular economy achievement. CIRCit Nord #11 Finlayson – From end-of-life bed sheets to designer rugs - CIRCit Nord Home textile brand Finlayson has revived an old practice where used textiles - bed sheets and duvet covers in this case - are turned into rugs. CIRCit Nord #10 RePack – Reusable packaging for online retail - CIRCit Nord RePack reduces the amount of packaging materials used in e-commerce by providing a reusable packaging system. CIRCit Nord #9 Gabriel – Towards end-of-waste and renewable textiles - CIRCit Nord Gabriel's focus on the complete life cycles of products and services resulted in solutions that benefit both users and the environment. CIRCit Nord #8 Norsk Ombruk – Repair for longer appliance life - CIRCit Nord Recognising the growing reuse market as an opportunity, Norsk Ombruk repairs, remanufactures and resells large house-hold appliances. CIRCit Nord #7 3TEMP - Online coffee machine allows for efficient service and repair - CIRCit Nord The coffee machines from 3Temp is operated through an app to ensure proper maintenance and extension of product life. CIRCit Nord #6 Danelec - Circular electronics equipment - CIRCit Nord Increased reliability of navigation equipment, through reduced complexity, and increased reparability and modularity. CIRCit Nord #5 Úrvinnslusjóður and Fisheries Iceland – Recycling fishing nets - CIRCit Nord Discarded fishing nets can be problematic when they end up in the environment. However, when recycled, they become a welcome resource CIRCit Nord #4 Svenska Retursystem – Reusable transit packaging - CIRCit Nord This reusable transit packaging system offers an alternative compared to conventional single or limited use transit packaging. CIRCit Nord #3 Valmet OptiConcept M – A future-proof machine - CIRCit Nord OptiConcept M is a paper machine with high-utilisation potential now and in the future. It also saves up to 30% energy and 30% water during the use. CIRCit Nord #2 BIR - Changing disposal behaviour through flexible fees - CIRCit Nord BIR has reduced residual waste by 4000 tons per year by offering flexible fee models for households with the use Internet of Things CIRCit Nord #1 Gamle Mursten - Collecting, cleaning and re-selling used bricks - CIRCit Nord Gamle Mursten takes a different approach to providing bricks for construction: instead of baking new ones, they collect, clean and resell used bricks CIRCit Nord