Sondel Engineering

Best way towards circularity? Brainstorming together! 🎉 Guus Gerrits and Bas Roelofs organized and managed this CIRCO track specifically for equipment manufacturers, which finalised this Thursday. Such Circo Track is a 3 day practical training on circular economy with clear training material and professional guidance. Enrico Koggel attended his first training as participant earlier this year with Sondel Engineering, and was now invited to join as external designer. The last meeting was hosted by VMI Group in Epe, which featured a very interesting tour around their tire manufacturing machine facility. We hope to organize the next training with Circular Rubber Platform in the coming months (in The Netherlands), on the circular application of rubber in the machine building industry. Let’s make it an success like this one! #circularrubbereconomy #circulareconomy #rubber Oost NL Ministry of Economic Affairs

We reached 500 followers! 🎉 Since the start of Sondel, April 2022, we have been working on building a network of customers and partners. With LinkedIn on our side, we have been expanding reach rapidly and we build the Circular Rubber Platform mainly on that digital network. Besides that, rubber product development, material development and prototyping are still our favorite activities and which we do for several customers in The Netherlands and abroad. Thank you for following our endeavours and looking forward to connect through LinkedIn or in person again! #TeamSondel

🤩 Imagine a future where #havaianas contain recycled #havaianas! 🐊 Or where Crocs are made from recycled Crocs. 100's of millions of footwear items contain a lot of material that is currently discarded. Recycling in a loop is only possible with a stable network of collectors, efficient recyclers and responsible producers and brand owners! And with upcoming regulations like #ESPR in the European Union, this will become a must, and hopefully other continents will follow. One of the latest additions to Circular Rubber Platform is Green Worms! Green Worms is collecting and sorting several waste streams, including footwear. By linking them to our network, we strive to create connections between solution providers so that their pile of rubber scrap can be revalorized into valuable raw materials. They have scale already, we have the international network of specialists. Add software like ContainerGrid and brand owners can secure their recycled raw materials effectively and efficiently. Havaianas Europe - an Alpargatas Brand Havaianas NA&C - an Alpargatas Brand Havaianas India Alpargatas S.A. Crocs, Inc.

🔥 Visitor record and amazing crowd! The 5th digital Member Meet-Up was again attended very well with a record of 84 attendees! After the platform’s update, Dr. Burkhard Ohs, Christos K. Georgantopoulos, Katie Kelley & Nicole Hershberger, Stefaan De Wildeman, Giada Zappalà and Louw Visscher presented their contributions to a circular economy, and answered questions from the interested audience. 📺 Watch the highlights here! https://lnkd.in/eB7uuQkP As the format is much appreciated by the members and the amount of presentations lining up is increasing rapidly, we continue for 2025, and increase the frequency to monthly. We will add technical webinars on specific topics like EUDR too. 🤩 Looking forward to welcome you to our next year Member Meet-Up on January 14th. You can already sign up now through the link: https://lnkd.in/epZhmQSh #acceleratechange #circularrubbereconomy #circulareconomy #rubber  ContainerGrid Akron Rubber Development Laboratory, Inc. Omya B4Plastics Caldic Lencon Enrico Koggel Jan Boomsma

New ECHA progress update on #PFAS restriction (20 nov. 2024) Finally the European Chemicals Agency mentions sealing applications as a separate subject in the PFAS regulation: "Examples of newly identified uses are: - #Sealing applications: a broad range of fluoropolymer uses in consumer, professional and industrial applications, including seals, pipe lining, gaskets, valve parts, etc." Other restriction options will be considered for fluorpolymers. This means at least that there will more time to find alternative materials for sealing applications. In my opinion it is necessary to work together as an industry to take your responsibility and solve this issue by open innovation programs. thahttps://lnkd.in/dPUj2fCJ

New ECHA progress update on #PFAS restriction (20 nov. 2024) Finally the European Chemicals Agency mentions sealing applications as a separate subject in the PFAS regulation: "Examples of newly identified uses are: - #Sealing applications: a broad range of fluoropolymer uses in consumer, professional and industrial applications, including seals, pipe lining, gaskets, valve parts, etc." Other restriction options will be considered for fluorpolymers. This means at least that there will more time to find alternative materials for sealing applications. In my opinion it is necessary to work together as an industry to take your responsibility and solve this issue by open innovation programs. thahttps://lnkd.in/dPUj2fCJ

🎉 Sondel Engineering is now member of #EHEDG!   With our experience in the design of hygienic sealing products, we love exchanging knowledge and experiences with other engineers in our network. Within the Food and Beverage industry there are so many developments and regulations changing continuously, it is hard to keep up.   That is why we have joined the network of European Hygienic Engineering & Design Group (EHEDG). With this membership, we can expand our network in the food industry and support our customers with the latest developments in hygienic sealing design.   Challenges with CIP/SIP, hygienic design or food contact material selection? Contact us!   #ehedg #sealdesign #rubber #sealing #cipsip #hygienicdesign

🎉 Sondel Engineering is now member of #EHEDG!   With our experience in the design of hygienic sealing products, we love exchanging knowledge and experiences with other engineers in our network. Within the Food and Beverage industry there are so many developments and regulations changing continuously, it is hard to keep up.   That is why we have joined the network of European Hygienic Engineering & Design Group (EHEDG). With this membership, we can expand our network in the food industry and support our customers with the latest developments in hygienic sealing design.   Challenges with CIP/SIP, hygienic design or food contact material selection? Contact us!   #ehedg #sealdesign #rubber #sealing #cipsip #hygienicdesign

🎯 Huge milestone: 400kg of waste revalorized! ♻ At Circular Rubber Platform, we’re changing the way small producers look at silicone recycling. Traditionally, small manufacturers couldn’t recycle their silicone waste because their quantities were too low to interest large recyclers. Our new initiative changes that. 🤝 However 400 kg seems just a little, for us it proved that the platform works. Want to know how we help transform silicone scraps to valuable resources? Read the article below! https://lnkd.in/ePPTVh3U #acceleratechange #circularrubbereconomy #circulareconomy #rubber #silicone #recycled #recycling

👨👩👧👦 Next Member Meet-Up coming up on 21st November! We’re excited to hear from our Member speakers, who will pitch their contributions to the Circular Rubber Economy: Caldic Lencon ContainerGrid Omya B4Plastics Akron Rubber Development Laboratory, Inc. 🤩 Will we see you there? Sign up here: https://lnkd.in/epZhmQSh #acceleratechange #circularrubbereconomy #circulareconomy #rubber