Association for developing the recycling of PVC in the Automotive Industry

We will present Autovinyle at the SFIP - Plastics Europe congress "La valorisation de la ressource plastique dans l’automobile en fin de vie : un défi ?" the 27th of November, 2007.
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Eco-design for materials selection in automobile industry - Center for Mineral Techology (CETEM) - Heloisa V. de Medina.

This paper aims at discussing the role of eco-design tools in materials selection presenting some results of a six-month case study on Eco-design and Recycling Strategy of Renault focusing on the mini Space Modus. Modus was the first model entirely conceived on the basis of the eco-design Renault internal rules for materials selection established to cope with European Legislation targets to 2015. Modus was designed at Techno Centre Renault in 30 months by a teamwork including people of Valladolid plant that came from Spain, where it should be assembled. The different groups in charge of each automobile system worked together in simultaneous engineering at the design, prototyping and assembly line. Modus achieved a recycling rate of 95% and incorporated over 18 kg of recycled plastic.

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