Circular Business Models

Transitioning to circular business models with sustainable packaging and services

Today, most products and packaging are used in a linear flow, instead of being reused, repaired and/or recycled. This generates enormous amounts of wasted material and pollution. At Nefab, we strive to make packaging solutions circular by innovating with sustainable materials, designing with circularity in mind, inventing new circular business models and managing waste better.

Key Elements of Circularity

Packaging Engineering

When designing new packaging and solutions, our engineering teams are strictly following the Nefab sustainability design guidelines. To make the process easier, we developed GreenCalc, a Life Cycle Analysis (LCA) tool that identifies potential CO_{2 eq} and cost savings of packaging compared with the existing solution.

"Our ambition is to establish fully circular business models and to turn waste into new resources. We set out to do so by designing sustainable packaging based on the principles of reduce, reuse and recycle, and working with key partners for returnable flows."

1. Charles De Muizon
2. Sustainability Director

Three simple design priciples

With the help of tools like GreenCalc, our engineers follow three design principles:

Design with efficient resource utilization (reduce)

Reduce environmental impact in transportation, reduce packaging materials use and reduce product fragility

Design with extended resource utilization (reuse)

Reuse packaging in the supply chain, reuse packaging multiple times, control returnable pool and design packaging to be repaired

Design to increase material recovery (recycle)

Increase recycled content, use material that can be better recycled, and design with a circular approach

Type

Material

Energy

LIB & E-Mobility

Datacom & Cloud

Mining & Construction

Healthcare

Telecom

Semiconductors

Other Industries

Our Purpose

Customer supply chains