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Forum on Sustainable Manufacturing
Venue & Date
Thursday July 6th 2006
International Manufacturing Centre,
University of Warwick, UK CV4 7AL
Forum Scope
The Forum will provide a major opportunity to consider the rapidly increasing
importance of sustainable manufacturing. The increasing political and
social demand for a more sustainable society, coupled with emerging global
legislation is affecting the way in which fuels, materials, chemicals
and products are manufactured, used and subsequently disposed of. The
development of enabling technologies to address the problems of environmentally
friendly and sustainable manufacturing requires a broadly based multi-disciplinary
approach that is unlikely to arise spontaneously. The interaction of engineering
with complimentary sciences such as chemistry and microbiology and with
economic, policy and education issues needs to occur to provide new avenues
of research in critical areas.
Global complexities result from inherently different local materials,
processes and skills capabilities being available to any nation, resulting
either in the use of inferior materials production and utilisation, or
(more often) the import of alternative materials from abroad - a situation
that is costly in economic and environmental terms. Legislation is stimulating
the search for alternative crop-based materials, which are more environmentally
friendly in production and use and can be disposed of more easily and
cheaply. This offers significant future opportunities to the growers of
crops.
Potential new products and services could include new feedstocks for
polymers used in packaging and automotive applications, reduced landfill
and incineration due to improved composting potential, naturally derived
pharmaceuticals and health-oils that require much reduced processing before
application, reduced toxicology and health issues through the use of natural
fibres rather than glass or carbon, improved land management and maintenance
through increased agricultural revenue - the potential knock on effects
for successful development and application in this area is large.
The Forum will combine policy, industry, academic and education perspectives,
culminating in a round table discussion
Further Information-
Forum
on Sustainable Manufacturing AC21 International Forum 2006
II INTERNATIONAL SEMINAR ON BIODEGRADABLE POLYMERS and sustainable composites
AIMPLAS are hosting the above conference in Valencia on February 28 and
March 1 2005. Details can be found at: - http://www.polimerosbiodegradables.com/
The Sustainable Composites Network launches new website
22nd January 2003
SusCompNet - the Sustainable Composites Network - founded in 2001 to
promote composite materials based upon renewable resources has recently
launched its revamped website. The new site, designed by David Prescott
of [site
345] , retains the existing URL - http://www.suscomp.net/
Dr Mark Hughes of the BioComposites Centre and joint co-ordinator of
the network explained that "with the new site, SusCompNet will be
able to promote its activities more effectively and therefore better achieve
its stated aim of advancing the commercialisation of sustainable composite
materials".Dr Nick Tucker of the Warwick Manufacturing Group added
that "the new site provides an excellent framework within which valuable
information relating to these environmentally conscious and socially useful
materials can be collected and disseminated".
BIOPRODUCTS Renewable Feedstock for Sustainable Materials
15th January 2003
CARM - the Centre for Advanced and Renewable Resources (http://www.carmtechnology.com/)-
completes a scoping study on the potential for renewable resources. Download
the executive summary
or full report
here.
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