Project

INDUCT

Climate targets call for industrial feedstock, products and processes to become climate neutral and circular. Introducing circularity into established material supply chains holds the promise of averting the depletion of finite raw materials, minimizing carbon emissions generated during the processing of said materials, and mitigating landfill waste. While laminated glass finds increasing application in automotive and building sectors (current market size: 22 billion $ and growing with CAGR of 7.4%), its end-of-life management poses challenges for recycling. Existing recycling techniques are energy-intensive, and do not allow re-use of glass for window applications, leading to limited adoption and a significant portion of laminated glass ending up in landfills. Hence, there arises a need for radical recycling processes that have a low energy consumption and cost and enable re-use of old glass sheets for the production of new windows, therefore promoting circularity of laminated glass. 

INDUCT develops an innovative circularity process using magnetic nanoparticles for on demand lamination and delamination of safety glass. Inductive heating is used to selectively heat the polymer interlayer in the production and end-of-life scenario of laminated glass, significantly reducing energy demand and CO2 emissions in both processes.