REMADE Institute: Advancing the Nation in Sustainable Manufacturing

On January 4, 2017, the U.S. Department of Energy announced the launch of the Reduced Embodied-energy and Decreasing Emissions (REMADE) Institute headquartered in Rochester, New York and led by the Sustainable Manufacturing Innovation Alliance. REMADE is the Department of Energy’s fifth manufacturing institute within the multi-agency Manufacturing USA network. REMADE is focused on driving down the cost of technologies essential to reuse, recycle and remanufacture materials such as metals, fibers, polymers and electronic waste. This is expected to save the U.S. manufacturing base billions in energy costs and will strengthen the nation’s economic competitiveness through cutting-edge innovation. REMADE is pursuing this mission by: Enabling early stage applied research and development of key industrial platform technologies that could dramatically reduce the embodied energy and carbon emissions associated with industrial-scale materials production and processing. Eliminate and/or mitigate technical and economic barriers that prevent greater material recycling, recovery, remanufacturing, and reuse. Accelerating Innovation for the Circular Economy

Basic Research

Research to Address Knowledge Gaps and Prove Feasibility

Technology Development and Demonstration

Deployment

Facilitated by DOE Funding Facilitated by Industry Funding

Performance Goals

Cross Industry Reuse

Cost Parity

30%

25%

20%

30%

Reduction of primary feedstock consumption and increase secondary feedstock by 30%.

Reduction of energy demand for secondary feedstock processing by 30%.

Improvements in embodied energy efficiency.

10x reduction in primary material feedstock and 20% reduction in associated GHG.

Enable cross- industry reuse of recycled feedstock.

Achieve cost parity for secondary materials.

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