Grundfos is partnering with leading Danish companies and the Danish Technological Institute in the Circular Industrial Plastics (CIP) project to increase recycling of industrial plastics by at least 20% before 2025 and to create a new plastics recycling platform.
Today, many industrial products made of plastics are burned or disposed of after use because they are not designed for recycling or because available recycling technologies cannot handle the products. Faced with this situation, large Danish companies favour a change and would like recycling to increase by at least 20% before 2025.
“Industrial plastic is a very important group of materials and it is possible to create functional design from this material. Grundfos takes responsibility for the entire value chain and the product at the end of life. It is a very complex task to combine materials and circular end-of-life technologies. Grundfos cannot achieve this on its own. So, besides inspiring other companies, Grundfos also wants to strengthen its ‘toolbox’ regarding old products and the design of new products,” says Preben Jakobsen, Chief Engineer and Grundfos representative in the CIP project.
Thus, Grundfos has already started to take important steps towards reusing plastic in its products and believes that this is a process that requires partnership and collaboration.