Rethink the cycle
Factors like resource scarcity, disrupted global supply chains and climate change call for rethinking production processes within the chemical industry.
There is an increased need for designing sustainable solutions that put circularity at the core of the chemical industry, lowering the demand for virgin resources over the entire life cycle of the essential products that it manufactures. The goal? Achieving resource efficiency across value chains and facilitating material reuse, driving the development process in the chemical industry towards circularity.
A compromise from within
The Circular Economy goes beyond waste management, it aims at closing cycles and using products and resources in the most sustainable way possible across entire value chains. It improves material efficiency, mitigating the impact of the growth in demand for energetic materials. GEA is committed to support customers achieve a higher degree of sustainability in the value chain of production and accelerate the path towards a truly circular economic model.
GEA takes pride in engineering up to the most demanding standards while taking bold action to support the global transition to a net-zero economy. We are nurturing our eco-design expertise to support customers right from the initial steps of creating manufacturing processes and all the way through the production of new materials from transformed waste, bringing the circular economy loop to a close and offering a strategic advantage to manufacturers.
Across industries and applications
Chemical recycling
Chemical recycling is a complex process that involves several technologies to break down waste into its basic chemical components. GEA's state-of-the-art technologies make possible to depolymerize, separate, purify and refine complex molecular structures, ensuring an efficient and effective chemical recycling.
Rare earth elements recycling
Currently, only about 1% of rare earth elements in old products, such as electronic waste, fluorescent lighting or permanent magnets, are recycled. GEA technologies make possible to recover these valuable materials, ensuring supply chain security amid an ever-growing demand and reducing the environmental impact.
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