For around four years, six Fraunhofer institutes have been working in the Fraunhofer Cluster of Excellence Circular Plastics Economy CCPE on the question of how the value chain of plastics can be made circular. From February 8 to 9, 2023, the Fraunhofer CCPE Summit on the topic will start under the motto "Get into the loop". The venue is the Marriot Hotel in Munich.
The Fraunhofer Cluster of Excellence Circular Plastics Economy (CCPE) has been conducting research in the areas of "Materials", "Systems" and "Business" since 2018. The Fraunhofer Institutes IAP, ICT, IML, IVV, LBF and UMSICHT are pooling their expertise for this purpose. The results to date include approaches for circular business models, intelligent collection, sorting and recycling technologies or new formulations for circular polymers and compounds. One result is the CRL assessment tool, which companies can use to evaluate the maturity of products or product systems with regard to the Circular Economy.