{"id":15562,"date":"2025-10-31T11:10:47","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T10:10:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hansa-flex.at\/?p=15562"},"modified":"2025-12-04T09:34:54","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T08:34:54","slug":"hansa-flex-austria-strengthens-circular-economy-innovation-through-recycling-and-cooperation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hansa-flex.at\/en\/news\/hansa-flex-austria-strengthens-circular-economy-innovation-through-recycling-and-cooperation\/","title":{"rendered":"HANSA-FLEX AUSTRIA STRENGTHENS CIRCULAR ECONOMY: INNOVATION THROUGH RECYCLING AND COOPERATION"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Rubber Recycling Workshop 2025 in Linz<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rubber Recycling Workshop 2025 in Linz<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":15192,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":true,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[269],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":{"post_hero_image":15192,"custom_post_date":"20251031","post_flexible_content":[{"acf_fc_layout":"just_text","text":"On September 9, 2025, the Rubber Recycling \u2013 Open Innovation Workshop took place at <strong>Business Upper Austria<\/strong>.\r\nUnder the umbrella of the <strong>NEFI+ innovation lab<\/strong>, industry and research collaborated on solutions for sustainable rubber recycling. <strong>HANSA-FLEX Austria<\/strong> played a central role in this effort: the goal was to consider the entire lifecycle of hydraulic hoses \u2014 from production to recycling \u2014 in a holistic way.\r\n<h2><\/h2>\r\n<h2><span style=\"color: #acbcc5;\"><strong>Working Together for Closed Loops<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\r\nUsing the <strong>LEGO\u00ae Serious Play\u00ae method<\/strong>, the entire HANSA-FLEX value chain was visualized. This resulted in a circular concept demonstrating how <strong>metal and rubber<\/strong> can be separated, recycled, and reused after their service life. The outcome is a sustainable \u201cgreen bridge\u201d linking production, use, and reprocessing."},{"acf_fc_layout":"slider_section","slider":[{"slider_image":15186,"slider_image_text":""}]},{"acf_fc_layout":"just_text","text":"<h2><span style=\"color: #acbcc5;\"><strong>Results and Outlook<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\r\nDuring group sessions, business models and value propositions were developed that combine ecological and economic benefits \u2014 for example, through <strong>design for recycling<\/strong>, <strong>material recovery<\/strong>, and <strong>resource<\/strong> <strong>efficiency<\/strong>.\r\n\r\nZentrale Zukunftsthemen (\u201eWhite Spots\u201c) sind:\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li>Further development of recycling technologies<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Ensuring material purity<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Economically viable separation of materials<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\nThese focal points form the basis for additional research and innovation projects.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<h2><span style=\"color: #acbcc5;\"><strong>Sustainability as a Guiding Principle<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\r\nThe workshop impressively demonstrated that <strong>circular economy is innovation<\/strong>.\r\nWith strong partners from industry and science, HANSA-FLEX Austria is actively shaping the transition toward a resource-efficient, competitive future."},{"acf_fc_layout":"related_posts_section","title":"LEARN MORE","related_posts":[15147,15164,15110]}]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hansa-flex.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hansa-flex.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hansa-flex.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hansa-flex.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hansa-flex.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hansa-flex.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15562\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hansa-flex.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hansa-flex.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hansa-flex.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hansa-flex.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}