Kingspan Planet Passionate Report 2023 Circularity Our LIFECycle Product Circularity Framework As a manufacturing business, key focus must be on enhancing the circularity performance of our products. Our LIFECycle Product Circularity Framework will enable us to embed circularity principles and benchmark our performance under five key themes: Lean design for circularity: Embedding resource efficiency and circularity principles into new and existing development processes. Input materials: Assessing the source of our materials and how their use can affect the end-of-life options of the products. < Factory processes: Working to improve our resource efficiency by reducing or eliminating waste creation within our manufacturing processes and reducing the quantity of raw materials needed to make our products. "As we drive down the impact of our raw materials, our products end of life impacts are ever more important to address. Having a structured approach and interrogating each stage of a products life-cycle enables us to improve our existing ranges and deliver new innovations that support the circular economy." Lizzie Young Divisional Head of Sustainability Kingspan Insulated Panels West Extended life models & reuse: Working to help to extend the in-use phase of products and enabling reuse programmes by supporting industry initiatives and pilot projects. Cycling: Developing a range of options to help keep materials and products that reach the end of their service life and cannot be reused, circulating within the economy. We aim to do this through regional and local partnerships and the deployment of in-house mechanical and chemical recycling facilities. 26
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