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Title Establishing an industrial symbiosis - key factors and time aspects in steel industry
ID_Doc 15954
Authors Rosendahl, S; Lundkvist, K; Haase, B; Stemne, J; Andersson, L; Eriksson, R
Title Establishing an industrial symbiosis - key factors and time aspects in steel industry
Year 2020
Published Materiaux & Techniques, 107, 5
DOI 10.1051/mattech/2020005
Abstract Today production industry has increasing incentives to be resource efficient and sustainable. Many residual material streams from production processes are therefore recycled internally; however, some streams might be of better use in another industry. In this study, factors seen as encouraging and/or barriers in the work towards an industrial symbiosis with residual materials, between two or more industries, were identified. The factors were divided into five categories: physical/technical, regulatory, business, motivation and society, on three organisational levels. Based on the key factors, the time aspect for establishing an industrial symbiosis was studied and criteria that need to be met in order to carry on with a business idea for a residual material were divided into three work phases. The study shows that an industrial symbiosis based on residual materials on many levels differs from a business with main products, for example when it comes to laws and policies. With residual materials it is also extra important to have good understanding of the material properties and the customer's material requirements. It was concluded that the establishment of industrial symbioses would be facilitated if all materials had the same conditions regardless of origin provided that the final product gets the same properties.
Author Keywords industrial symbiosis; residual material; steel industry; influencing factors
Index Keywords Index Keywords
Document Type Other
Open Access Open Access
Source Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI)
EID WOS:000519578300001
WoS Category Materials Science, Multidisciplinary
Research Area Materials Science
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