Closing the loops of materials and maximising the reusability of products and raw materials is the ultimate goal to achieving a circular economy. But how can we get there? Urban Factory explores the application of digital fabrication techniques to create valuable products from urban residues. Join us and listen to inspiring cases. Discover how to make high-quality products from waste.

3. Urban Factory: From Urban
Waste to Circular Products.
Ingeborg Gort-Duurkoop,
moderator

4. Ingeborg Gort (TUDelft, IDE, 2001)
Partners for Innovation is a leading consultancy for sustainable innovation.
Together with our clients we achieve profitable solutions for a biobased and
circular economy.
Recent projects: EcoDesign training at DAF Trucks, Guidelines Designing with
recycled plastics, plastic cycle value chain projects for Vanderlande, Burg Groep
Ingeborg

5. Guidelines: Designing with recycled plastics
http://www.partnersforinnovation.com/en/publications/reports/

6. Karina Peña
Willeke Pluk
Bo Reurings
Jeroen Timmer
Kaj Bos

7. Karina Peña

8. From Urban Waste to Circular Products
Karina Peña
URBAN FACTORY
Research Programme Urban Technology

9. The Challenge
• Physical facility in the MRA
• Network:
+ creative industries
+ manufacturing
+ construction
• Circular Economy

10. The Study
• Local
• Circular
• Digital
© Daniel Farò © Elektrolux © Olivier van Herpt

11. First explorations
• Literature research
• Case studies

12. INSIGHTS

13. Local
• Circular systems work
locally: C2C, Blue
Economy, Biomimicry…
• New logistics
• Cultural implications

14. 3D WASP
World’s Advanced Saving Project
Printing houses with local materials
to solve housing shortage.
© WASP

15. Circular
• Mono-materials

16. © SPINNEYBECK
Spinneybeck
100% recyclable leather products
(upholstery, wall-coverings) made from scrap leather
discarded in the shoe industry.

17. Circular
• Monomaterials
• Scalability : also
mainstream products

18. REPREVE
(QUICKSYLVER)
11 PET bottles in a swimsuit.
First–quality recycled fibers with no sacrifice
in look,
feel or performance.
© REPREVE

19. Circular
• Monomaterials
• Scalability : also
mainstream products
• Secure resource supply

20. Digital
• Minimal waste > additive
manufacturing
• On demand
• Volume not relevant :
parallel production, unique products
• Producer < > customer

21. © FACIT HOMES
FACIT HOMES
End-to-end design and construction
services, creating ‘design for assembly’
homes through digital manufacturing.

22. Join us! Urban
Factory
facilities
knowledge
research capacity
Designers ideas
technical challengeCompanies residues
semi-products
k.pena@hva.nl
Research Programme Urban Technology

23. Willeke Pluk

25. Bo Reurings

27. Jeroen Timmer

32. 2.350.000.000 kg
85%

33. collection system
baling
big paper machine
pulping the paper
(with lots of water)
mixing in
fresh fibers
End products
sorting / taking out non papers
RECYCLING PROCESS

34. collection system
sorting / taking out non papers
big paper machine
pulping the paper
(with lots of water)
mixing in
fresh fibers
End products
baling
RECYCLING PROCESS

35. collection system
New
EnvelopeBooks SMARTLY
resizing, reusing nice materials
applying graphical techniques
check
available material,
quality, sizes,
production potential
ENVELOPEBOOK
REUSING PROCESS

36. BEING
CIRCULAR

37. COLLECTION
SYSTEM
CIRCULAR CHALLENGE
STOCK
BUFFER
PRODUCTION
SALES / DISTRIBUTION
USED ENVELOPES UNIFORM PAPERS

38. RECEIVING
& GIVING

39. Original EnvelopeBooks Green Office Papers Customized Items

41. Thank You
@envelopebook
/envelopebook
jeroen@
envelopebook.com
020 - 642 62 06

42. Kaj Bos

43. Kaj Bos
25 years old
Amsterdam
Graphic Designer – War Child
Co-founder – Refilment

44. Print nice.

47. 3D PRINTING
• Additive manufacturing
• Around since the ‘80s
• Printing 3 dimensional objects
• Layer by layer, automatic control

55. • Plastic
• Wood
• Ceramic
• Organic materials… (Food! Limbs & organs!)

56. 3D printing…?
Circular economy...?

59. Print nice.

63. Implications
• Medical – custom prosthetics, limbs
• Industry – car parts, rockets
• Production, storage & storage –
locally produced, no storage needed, close to
consumption

65. www.refilment.com