Contact person
Hanna Linden
tf Affärs-och innovationsområdeschef
Contact HannaRadical changes are needed in how we use our resources. Products and components are used significantly longer, by more people and are recycled to a much greater degree than today. In many cases, there are technical solutions to start from or build on, but to get all the way, innovation is needed in how we collaborate between parties.
Digitization and information sharing provide the conditions to enable a leap in development towards circular flows. The project Product passport as an enabler for circular flows of furniture aims to prepare the Swedish furniture industry for the proposed EU product pass for furniture and together in the value chain further develop the concept of product pass to a driving force to promote increased innovation, circularity and competitiveness throughout the value chain. In a traceable system, similar to what a product passport requires, where information accompanies products, a number of actors, suppliers as well as customers and recyclers, can contribute to the products’ many and long lives.
The work is interdisciplinary and includes environmental and needs analysis, development and testing of technical solutions and prototypes, exemplification of business models and analysis of which system effects and system weaknesses need to be addressed to accelerate circular conversion through increased data sharing. The project is led by Chalmers Industriteknik, RISE and Antrop and brings together 15 partners from the entire business ecosystem for circular furniture flows; from manufacturers, retailers, recyclers and interior designers, to customers, industry and standardization organizations and technology companies.
Product passport furniture
Active
Project participant
2,5 years
Antrop, Bjerking, Empower, Godsinlösen Nordic, GS1 Sweden, Input interiör, Interior Cluster Sweden, Kinnarps, Lammhults möbel, Lundbergs Möbler, Papershell, Recycling Partner RP , Stockholms stad, Swedese Möbler, Trä och Möbelföretagen (TMF), White arkitekter, Västra Götalandsregionen
Vinnova, Västra Götalandsregionen
Hanna Linden Derek Diener Peter Ljungstrand Sara Fallahi Niels Stor Swinkels László Sall Vesselényi