Contact person
Karin Lindqvist
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Sustainable vehicle interior solutions
The SVIS project took a holistic approach to a more sustainable production of vehicle interior components and involved suppliers from all relevant areas. The project aims was to create anoverall competence within the consortium around design for recycling and design with recycled materials, recycling of production waste and ELV, LCA and value chain
Objectives
The project aims was to reduce production waste from interior vehicle components that are not reused or recycled by at least 50%. In addition, the project intended to build knowledge in the automotive industry around
- How to avoid and recycle production waste
- Recycling methods for production waste and ELV
- Design for recycling and design with recycled materials
- The life cycle perspective and in particular LCA
- Future value chains
Background
Today, vehicle interior components are mainly based on synthetic materials and often the components consist of multimaterial combinations where different materials are laminated with suitable adhesives. This type of waste is often downgraded in the waste hierarchy to e.g. insulation, energy recovery (incinerated), or in the worst case landfilled.
At the same time, Volvo Cars has the goal of having 25% recycled plastics in all new cars from 2025, and the same year the ELV directive comes into force, which introduces a requirement to use recycled plastics.
The hypothesis here is that much of the production waste can be used in products or components with a significantly higher value than today and contribute to a better environmental profile. But to achieve Volvo's ambitious goals, cross-border collaboration with suppliers is needed.
Implementation
With the help of case studies at the component level that involved many subcontractors, the SVIS project intended to build knowledge about sustainable vehicle design as well as recycling methods. In addition to the technical aspects of design and recycling, the project addressed issues related to requirements, future value chains, consumer and market attitudes. Moreover, a number of lectures and trainings were offered to increase knowledge among the involved partners regarding these and other aspects and issues that arise in connection with sustainable circular solutions.
The project studies different concepts for sustainable solutions with the help of case studies on component level.
Summary
Project name
SVIS
Status
Completed
RISE role in project
Coordinator and research partner
Project start
Duration
4,5 years
Total budget
20 MSEK
Partner
Volvo Car Corporation, Adient, Albis, Autoneum, Borgstena, Dow, Elmo, Frimo, Havd, IAC, MCPP, National Halmstad, National Högsäter, Sporda Nonwoven, Texla, TMG
Funders
FFI - Fordonstrategisk Forskning och Innovation
Project members
Karin Lindqvist Cecilia Mattsson Abhijit Venkatesh Annika Boss Valter Dejke Desiré Rex Adriana Angelaccio-Osbeck
Supports the UN sustainability goals
9. Industry, innovation and infrastructure
12. Responsible consumption and production
13. Climate action
