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How can business play an enabling role, and what can be achieved by this?

Martin Vogt Managing Director, VDI Centre for

Resource Efficiency

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Meeting the circular

economy challenge – the

role of business in

transformation

Eco Innovation Forum,

Hannover, 8th of April 2014

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The Association of German Engineers (VDI)

Innovation funding Technology consulting Media Advanced Training

VDI

Over 150.000 members 12.000 active experts

VDI-Group

12 VDI- Societies

55 Technical

Divisions

Education ca. 200 new and revised

VDI guidelines

per year

Innovation funding Technology consulting Media Advanced training

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VDI Centre for Resource Efficiency

Project cooperation of VDI and

BMUB, financed by the National

Climate Fund.

Focus on resource efficiency in

companies.

Competence Centre to utilise existing

technical RE know-how for SME.

Development of standards through

VDI guidelines for RE in cooperation

with VDI.

Source: Ernsting

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Resource efficiency potential

Resource costs (material +

energy) are dominant

Material 45%

Energy 2%

Goods for Resale 11%

External Suppliers

2%

Staff 17%

Taxes 3%

Interest 1%

Other (Depreciation, Rental etc.)

15%

Profit etc. 4%

Cost Structure Manufacturing Sector Germany, 2011

Source: Federal Statistical Office Germany, 2013

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Resource efficiency potential

In our sector all resource efficiency potentials have already been utilised.

Food nug =109

Paper nug =88

Chemical Industry nug =99

Plastics nug =90

Metal nug =153

Mechanical Engineering

nug =134

Recycling nug =26

Control Technology

nug =97

Optics nug =17

Automotive nug =93

nug = 906, answers in percent

yes

no

Do you agree with this statement?

Source: Study „Implementation of Resource Efficiency Measures in SME‘s and their Drivers“ (VDI ZRE, 2011)

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VDI ZRE Support Tools

Resource Checks Database Process chains

Efficiency Map Movies Qualification VDI-Handbook Resource Efficiency in Kooperation mit dem VDI e.V.

Innovation Radar

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Process and company level: Resource Checks

Online and offline versions

Manufacturing

Basis

module

Metal

processing

Extrusion

Varnishing Shape

cutting

PCB

technology

Foundry

technology

Cold rolling Deep

drawing

Construction

Facility

Management (Hospital)

Energy-

efficient

Renovation (Hospital)

Lifts

Injection

moulding

Electro-

plating

Hot rolling

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Process level: 2D visualisation of database

Example: Foundry technology

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Brochure „Competetive Advantage RE“ Containing examples on process and system level

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Company level: Examples for integrated approach I J. Schmalz GmbH, Glatten

KANBAN-System for optimal use of materials

Positive-energy company utilising energy from solar, wind and water

Wood-cheap heating system using resources from the Black Forest

Source: J. Schmalz GmbH

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Company level: Examples for integrated approach II Solvis GmbH & Co. KG

Zero-emission factory (European Solar Prize 2002, Energy Globe 2003)

14.000 sq. metre (offices, production areas and storage facilities)

Uses 75% less energy and water than conventional plants

25% of energy from solar, the rest from biogas (all inhouse)

Source: Solvis GmbH & Co. KG

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Company level: Green Hospital Examples

Costs for health care are on the rise

Use of natural resources in hospitals is very high

Various programmes to decrease resource use to reduce costs and

maintaining or increasing the standards of patient care at the same

time

Examples from Germany

Green Hospital Programme by Asklepios Kliniken

Green Hospitals + by Siemens Healthcare

VDI technical committee „Sustainable construction and operation of

hospitals“ since March 2013

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New tool: resource efficent production infrastructure Synergies between production and construction

Currently under construction

Approx. 25 data points with

information on new RE

technologies

Automatisation, hydraulic

systems, compressed air,

efficient thermal and water

management etc.

Next step: Supply chain

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Next steps: Industrial Symbiosis, Smart City

Extending the tool set to systems containing various industrial,

office and residential buildings

Visualisation of intelligent management systems for zero-

emission heat, energy and materials flow with data points on all

levels

Goal is to bring emission-free, environmentally friendly and

resource efficient industry into the inner city

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Example: Study Smart City

Study by the Technology Foundation of Berlin

Identifies 300 stakeholder and presents more than 40 projects

in Berlin

http://www.tsb-

berlin.de/media/uploads/publikationen/20140213_SmartCity.pdf

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Contact

Dr. Martin Vogt, Managing Director

VDI Zentrum Ressourceneffizienz GmbH

Johannisstrasse 5-6

D-10117 Berlin

www.ressource-deutschland.de