... find suitable recyclate grades for specific products
... improve the quality control during production phase and establish a stable process with high recyclate ratio
... optimize value streams, to forward the plastic material to the costumer
... forecast future quantities and provide a more stable supply of recyclates
All Di-Plast tools are developed as stand-alone tools that can be used independently from the other tools but also in any combination you like or need. The following example shows one possible way of using the tools.
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_ Di-Plast Workshop "Prozessdaten - Transparenz und Relevanz für den Rezyklateinsatz" (Online)
Date: 11. May 2022 time: 13:00 - 14:30 - for registration please contact Heicke Gaedeke (SKZ - Das Kunststoff-Zentrum)
_ Di-Plast Workshop "Using Value Stream Management for the ciruclar plastic industry"
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Posted on 30-07-2021
Jeff Manger and Peter Plappert form the University Luxembourg, one of our project partner responsible for the VSM tool, published a paper on "An Innovative Strategy Allowing a Holi... Read more
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On the 29th of March 2022 the Di-Plast workshop "Work more sustainably with recyclate" took place at Zwolle. The workshop was organized by our project partner Polymer Science Park ... Read more
22 Friedrich-Bergius-Ring
Würzburg
97076
Germany
6 Rue Richard Coudenhove-Kalergi
Luxembourg
1359
Luxembourg
45 Friedrichstr.
Stuttgart
70174
Germany
2 Warandelaan
Tilburg
5037 AB
Netherlands
19 Doeppersberg
Wuppertal
42103
Germany
Lead partner
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| Wuppertal Institute for Climate Environment Energy gGmbH |
19 Doeppersberg Wuppertal 42103 Germany |
holger.berg@wupperinst.org | www.wupperinst.org |
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| SKZ-KFE gGmbH | Hermann Achenbach | h.achenbach@skz.de | Germany |
| University of Luxembourg | Peter Plapper | peter.plapper@uni.lu | Luxembourg |
| Umwelttechnik BW GmbH State Agency for environmental Technology and Resource Efficiency | Jonas Umgelter | jonas.umgelter@umwelttechnik-bw.de | Germany |
| Tilburg University (JADS) | Martin Atzmuller | m.atzmuller@uvt.nl | Netherlands |
If you are looking for solutions to analyse, improve, evaluate and use data for process optimisation, we offer you to join our co-creation process (Pilots). You can participate in either one or more pilots with the topics:
Process Quality,
Process Analytics and
Value Stream Management.
For more information, please dowload the open call document below or contact our pilot coordinator Heicke Gaedeke.
To apply, please get in contact with Mrs. Gaedeke via e-mail. The application period ends on the 21st of June 2021.
Heicke Gaedeke
SKZ-KFE gGmbH
Friedrich-Bergius-Ring 22
97076 Würzburg/Germany
Phone: +49 931 4104-265
E-mail: h.gaedeke@skz.de
The first Uptake Accelerator workshop took place at the 30th of March 2021. The companies have been informed on the goals of Di-Plast and learned in three different breack-out session more about our digital solutions.
More workshops are planned in the upcoming future.
The Webinar was hosted on the 12th of December 2019 from 15:00 - 17:00 pm (CET) by our Dutch project partners Jurgen van den Hoogen & Stefan Bloemheuvel, who are affiliated with the Jheronimus Academy of Data Science. Please click here to watch the video. The video contains the following agenda:
00:00 - 08:15 General Information on the Project
08:15 - 37:51 Information on the tools
37:51 - 54:05 Question and Answers
Companies, which would like to increase the amount of recycled materials in their processes and improve the quality in process and product by using digital tools were invited to apply until the 15th December 2019 to participate in the Di-Plast pilot. Within the pilots, companies can directly influence the development of the tools and ensure that the functions of the tools are tailored to their needs.
With our survey we got first insights into the challenges when using recyclate.
The next step are expert interviews in order to get a deeper understanding of the challenges when using recyclate. If you have specific challenges in your value chain while using recyclate, you might be an interesting partner for such an interview. Don't hesitate to contact one of the partners on the landing page that fits best for your convenience. Tell us which tools would help you to improve the uptake of recyclate.
Di-Plast needs participation of related partners from the plastics value chain. Stakeholders from along the value chain are important for the results (and success) of the project. In each phase of the Project inputs from stakeholders influence the progress of Di-Plast and also results from the project can be used by stakeholders in order to improve their use of recycled plastics material.
The next opportunity to be part of it will be our survey regarding the requirements of enterprises that handle plastics material.
The Survey will start in March 2019, so stay in contact or better: if you are interested send an E-Mail to one of the Partners on the startpage.
And there will come many more opportunities to participate for Partner from the NorthWestEurope Area. Feel free to ask.
On the 29th of March 2022 the Di-Plast workshop "Work more sustainably with recyclate" took place at Zwolle. The workshop was organized by our project partner Polymer Science Park and Oost NL. During the workshop the Matrix tool was presented and one of our pilot company shared its expercience with the Di-Plast project. Read More
Jeff Manger and Peter Plappert form the University Luxembourg, one of our project partner responsible for the VSM tool, published a paper on "Value Stream Mapping (VSM) to Evaluate and Visualize Interrelated Process-Chains Regarding Circular Economy". Read More
Jeff Manger and Peter Plappert form the University Luxembourg, one of our project partner responsible for the VSM tool, published a paper on "An Innovative Strategy Allowing a Holistic System Change towards Circular Economy within Supply-Chains". Read More
Di-Plast data analytics reseach presented at an international conference presenting and discussing state of the art artificial intelligence and related research. Read More
The government of Luxembourg and the Bavarian Ministry of Economic Affairs, Regional Development and Energy together with the Bavarian State Ministry of the Environment and Consumer Protection both published documents on Interreg proejct in their regions (Luxembourg and Bavaria). The documents are available in french (Luxembourg) and german (Bavaria). Read More
New project partner in the Di-Plast consortium, with specialization on data science and artificial intelligence. Read More
The University of Luxembourg, one of our project partner, just published an introducing article on VSM at the 9th International Conference on Mass Customization an Personalization – Community of Europe in Novi Sad, Serbia. Read More
Di-Plast is, among others, named in the article “Nieuwe standaarden smeerolie voor circulaire motor” (New standards lubricating oil for a circular engine) as one of the interesting projects to improve the uptake of recyclates in the Netherlands and the EU. Read More
Article about Di-Plast Pilots and Voucher scheme published in Oost-Gelderland-Business Magazin Nr 5 2019 Read More
The Di-Plast Webinar held on the 12th of December 2019 is now online Read More
Workshop in the importance of process data for the transparency of the plastic industry, conduct by SKZ - Das Kunststoff-Zentrum
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After beeing postponed last year, the Woche der Umwelt (week of environment) will takes place online on the 10th and 11th of June. The Wuppertaler Institute will present among others the Di-Plast project at their digital booth.
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InnoZent OWL e.V., invited our Di-Plast experts in the context of CirQuality OWL to present our knowledge regarding digital tools for the plastics industry in a workshop.
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Dr. Hermann Achenbach of SKZ-KFE gGmbH is presenting Di-Plast and our digital solutions to increase of plastic recyclates uptake at the "Digitalization: Successful business models for the plastics industry" on Mai 4th 2021 at 11:10 (online).
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In this interactive session the project partners will guide you to the use of digital tools for the uptake of recycled plastics in your processes.
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Christoph Kugler of SKZ-KFE gGmbH is presenting Di-Plast and our digital solutions to increase of plastic recyclates uptake at the "Plastics Quality Summit" on the 17. of March 2021 at 10:10 (online).
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The project team will conduct a workshop on ressourc efficiency within the value chain, presenting the aim and approach of Di-Plast at the PIUS (Production-Integrated Environmental Protection) conference in Frankfurt. This time, due to the pandemic, the event will be held online.
Holger Berg of Wuppertal Institut will speak on the 4th of March 2021 within the workshop "Use of plastic recyclates".
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If you are working in the plastics industry and want to know more about our digital toolkit, please join our Webinar on the 12th of December. The Webinar starts at 15:00 PM (CET) with the duration of about one hour.
The Webinar provides an exstensive overview of the Di-Plast project and the designed tools are provided and gives you the opportunities to ask questions to our experts.
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SKZ presents Di-Plast project and our open call at this year's Forum Rezyklat on the 12th of December 2019 in Karlsruhe.
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Ressourceneffizienz- und Kreislaufwirtschaftskongress - Congress in German language (mainly) -
Largest congress of this kind in Europe. Two days full of information and discussion about resource efficiency and circular economy. Di-Plast will be introduced in a forum at the 23th of October. This specific presentation will be held in English.
More Information will follow - for regularly updated information go to the link below.
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Di-Plast develops and implements digital tools to increase information transparency in the value chain and to support converters in purchasing and processing rPM. These tools will be implemented, demonstrated and tested in four pilots supporting companies from the plastics value chain. These companies are directly involved in conducting the pilots forming a co-creation process to make the tools fit for their applications.
One of the hindrances of using recyclate, according to the results of the Di-Plast survey and expert interviews, is the challenge in finding suitable recyclate grades for specific products. The correlation between product/process requirements is difficult to make, and in most cases field studies need to be carried out in order to validate the material selection. If converters would have a database where this aforementioned correlation is illustrated, it would be less complicated to find suitable recyclate grades. Furthermore, recompounders and material traders could use this tool in order to sell their material more efficiently.
Responsible expert: Femke de Loos, Polyer Science Park (send an e-mail) - The Netherlands
This pilot focuses on the validation and analysis of process data with an easy-to-use dashboard, which you can tailor to your needs. It is equipped with different applications for data analysis, data visualisation and forecasting (e.g. waste quantities). Co-create this dashboard to make use of the digitalisation to improve your processes.
Responsible expert: Jurgen van den Hoogen and Stefan Bloemheuvel, Jheronimus Academy for Data Science - The Netherlands
This pilot focuses on the visualization and analysis of product and information to reduce operating cost by eliminating all non-value adding entities. The aim is to deliver value from your customer’s perspective and continuously improve your processes on a micro level (one company) or on macro level (complete supply chain). Within this pilot, you will evaluate your company or your value chain (if you can get your partners on board) together with our expert and receive information on how to improve your value streams in a holistic manner.
Responsible expert: Jeff Manger, University of Luxembourg (send an e-mail)- Luxembourg
Sensor data and machine data acquisition are the basic requirements for the data analytics tools. This pilot focuses on matching your skill and budget level with a suitable supplier to find the right software infrastructure for data acquisition or the right sensor to eliminate problems caused by recycling material.
Responsible expert: Christoph Kugler, SKZ-KFE gGmbH (send an e-mail)- Germany
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All Di-Plast tools are developed as stand-alone tools that can be used independently from the other tools but also in combination. The following example shows one possible way of using the tools.
Start by getting an overview on your internal processes and information flows so that you can optimize them and make more out of your processes which include rPM or prepare your processes for rPM integration (VSM). The VSM tool helps to analyse, display and later optimize your cross-company product and information flows. It supports you in getting better knowledge about resource flows and localise bottlenecks either internally or withing your overall supply-chain.
Learn which sensors could help to get more information from your production (Sensoring) and learn how to get access to machine data that most likely is already there but not yet used (Machine Data Acquisition).
Now more in-depth work with your process data can start. Ideally you first use the Data Validation tool to assess data quality, gain insights in the variables and receive tricks how to increase your over all data quality. This might mean, that you go back to the Data Acquisition and the Sensoring tool but can also imply other steps.
Once your data quality is sufficient, we recommend using the Process Analytics Tool. It provides insights consisting of reports, visualizations and other analyses methods that describe the state of your processes and/or machinery. Errors in data found during the processing of specific materials can be automatically detected and made visible through reports and visualizations. This allows you to improve processes and their results. One module of this tool provides the opportunity to forecast future rPM quantities.
Our Matrix Tool can help you to find matching process and product requirements with material properties. Plastics users can find suitable recyclates for their applications here. The recycler, in turn, can offer its products (recyclates with specific material specification) or identify material specifications required by the market - and modify its recycling process to produce these materials. You will, therefore, gain a better understanding of the plastics recyclate market and opportunities, both as a user or supplier of rPM.
Share your interest in the Di-Plast solution and support with us and we contact you according to your preferences!
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- Economically active in the North-West European Region? - Are you a Compounder, Converter, Recycler, Re-compounder, and Companies creating commercial polymer waste or a Trader? - You don’t exceed the De-minimis state aid limit (excluding corona support). The De-minimis regulation limits the support to EUR 200,000 in a three-year period For more information on De-minimis, please downlaod the info sheet on the right. |
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Prepare your application with the help of the application template (download link on the right)
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The application will be evaluated by review criteria which you can find at the bottom of this page.
If you have been granted, we will provide you with all necessary documents for the documentation. Applicants will be notified within 6 weeks if the voucher can be granted.
Relevant documents after the approval:
If you having doubts or question regarding
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SKZ-KFE (Regional Coordinator Germany)
Erik Plaggenmarsch I
Oost NL (Regional Coordinator The Netherlands)
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Supports you with finding the right match for cooperation to introduce or increase recycled plastics in your production process. The following activities can be supported:
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Utilise external and specialist expertise to relise your project ideas for the (increased) use of recycled plastics.
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Finance specific purchases to concretize projects to increase the usage of recycled plastics in your production process. Please note that you will be requested to send three tender offers with your application.
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