Circular Economy Initiative BDIโ€™s Post

๐–๐‡๐€๐“ ๐€ ๐–๐„๐„๐Š ๐€๐“ #๐ˆ๐…๐€๐“ ๐–๐จ๐ซ๐ฅ๐๐ฐ๐ข๐๐ž ๐…๐š๐ข๐ซ #2024 ย  It was a blast. Hereโ€™s a glimpse of our exciting line-up: ย  ๐Œ๐Ž๐๐ƒ๐€๐˜ ๐Ÿค We met Steffi Lemke, federal minister for environment from the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Nuclear Safety and Consumer Protection (BMUV). ๐“๐”๐„๐’๐ƒ๐€๐˜ ๐Ÿค We had the pleasure to meet Dr. Franziska Brantner at our booth, followed by a high level discussion on the future role of raw material supply using #circulareconomy with Karl Haeusgen (VDMA), Dr. Markus Steilemann (Covestro), Dr. Johannes Kirchhoff (KIRCHHOFF Group) and Holger Lรถsch. ย  ๐Ÿš€ On the same day we were also happy to meet our members and new faces at our public annual conference. After a panel discussion with (Katrin Habenschaden, Deutsche Bahn), Dr. Silke Karcher (BMUV), Markus Steilemann (Covestro), Christian Schiller (Cirplus) we had three exciting CE-interventions: ๐Ÿ‘‰Practical Check: Critical Raw Materials Act โ€“ with Inge Hofkens (Aurubis) and Holger Lรถsch ๐Ÿ‘‰Digital technologies enabling CEย โ€“ with Andile Dlamini (TOMRA Sorting GmbH) ๐Ÿ‘‰Scope 3 in Practice โ€“ Nina Fechler (Evonik) A big thank you to Herwart Wilms and Johannes Kirchhoff for jointly with Annika Stuckenhoff and Inken Carina Sittler closing our conference highlighting necessary next steps. ย  ๐–๐„๐ƒ๐๐„๐’๐ƒ๐€๐˜ ๐Ÿ”Ž We have explored IFAT by conducting two very interesting #tours with our members. Many thanks to Aurubis, Covestro, PlasticsEurope Deutschland e. V., BASF, EEW Energy from Waste GmbH, Upstream (morning tour) and ContainerGrid, PreZero Deutschland, REMONDIS Gruppe and FAUN Group (afternoon tour) for welcoming us at your booths. ย  ๐Ÿ”จ Cross-Industry stage: Session on #CircularConstruction with Tara Nitz (Covestro), Mateusz Wielopolski (Better Building Initiative), Stefanie Gerhart (ecoLocked), Max-Frederick Gerken (Optocycle), Jan Hendrik Heihoff (Aurum Impact). Thanks to Bruno Rudnik for a great moderation & co-organisation! ย  โœ’ In the afternoon Dr. Claas Oehlmann signed the #Charta of the round table on #CircularValueCreation of North Rhine-Westphalia. ย  ๐“๐‡๐‘๐Ž๐”๐†๐‡๐Ž๐”๐“ ๐“๐‡๐„ ๐–๐‡๐Ž๐‹๐„ ๐–๐„๐„๐Š โšก๏ธ While being official partner of IFAT worldwide, it was also the very first time that we had an own booth! ๐Ÿ’ฌ Getting in dialogue with so many #partners, #people and #companies piloting and innovating in the field of CE was extremely inspiring and gives us motivation to further work on making a change from #linear to #circular.

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Christine Mendoza-Frohn

SVP Sales EMEA & LATAM Performance Materials at Covestro; President International Isocaynate Institute (III)

3mo

I share the excitement and commitment and the energy. I felt it myself on IFAT and the in parallel taking place Munich Creative Business Week. When we meet on next IFAT .. what will be the palpable changes, any KPI, any thoughts? Whilst excited and energized, challenged myself with that question.

Nina Fechler

Director Global Circular Economy Program

3mo

Many thanks to the whole team from Circular Economy Initiative BDI and Dr. Claas Oehlmann for the invite and opportunity to share some examples on #circulareconomy at Evonik! Really strong initiative, keep it going!

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