CircelPaper

📢 Successful Trial for the CircelPaper Project: A Sustainable Alternative to PCBs! 🌍♻️ Exciting news from the CircelPaper project! 🚀 Gael Depres and Guillaume MEUNIER-CARUS from Fedrigoni Group and Denis Curtil and Arnel Brzovic from LGP2 have just completed the 4th of February a key pilot trial at Grenoble INP-Pagora in their mission to develop an innovative, paper-based material that could replace traditional printed circuit boards (PCBs). This marks a major step toward a more sustainable, circular electronics industry. 🛠️ What is CircelPaper? CircelPaper is an European project coordinated by Fraunhofer Institute for Silicate Research ISC with the objective to develop an eco-friendly alternative to conventional PCBs, which are typically made from fiberglass and epoxy resin. By leveraging cellulose-based materials, we aim to create a biodegradable, recyclable, and high-performance solution for electronic applications. 🔬 What did this trial achieve? ✅ Successful manufacturing at pilot trial of a new generation of paper substrate that will be impregnated with a bio-derivable resin ✅ Progress toward a scalable and sustainable production process 🌱 Why does this matter? PCBs are essential to modern electronics, but their production and disposal pose environmental challenges. With CircelPaper, we’re exploring a greener future, reducing electronic waste and moving toward circular manufacturing. This achievement is thanks to the dedication of our European project partners who are pushing the boundaries of innovation and sustainability. Next steps? Further testing, optimization, and scaling up production! 🚀 What are your thoughts on biodegradable electronics? Let’s discuss in the comments! 👇 #Circelpaper #Sustainability #GreenElectronics #paper #CircularEconomy #PCBReplacement

Steps toward sustainable Electronics Last week, the CircElPaper project organized a remarkable workshop on “Circular Materials for Sustainable Electronics” at the Megaplastronic Connection Event. In contributions and discussions, it quickly became clear that a paradigm shift is needed to make electronics more sustainable. Chloe Bois (PRINTABILITY & GRAPHIC COMMUNICATIONS INSTITUTE, Montreal, Canada) pointed out that sustainability for electronics can have very different priorities when geographical conditions are taken into account. Daniela Collin (Fraunhofer ISC), Gael Depres (Fedrigoni), Arnel Brzovic (Grenoble INP), Oliver Werzer and Sara Carniello (Joanneum Research) presented impressive successes from the CircEl-Paper project, which showed that high-performance electronics can also be possible - beyond the familiar materials and processes by using paper, printing and plating technologies, and adapted recycling technologies. Alternative approaches that emphasized additive manufacturing methods for printed circuit boards as a material-saving approach were presented by Lina Kadurea (CEA Liten). In a final panel discussion with Valerio Beni (RISE), Lara Jabbour (CEA Liten) and Nadege Reverdy-Bruas (Grenoble INP), the participants discussed about - new sustainable material approaches that enable better recyclability, - additive manufacturing processes that reduce the use of materials, These alternative approaches are feasible and technologically attractive to realise performant electronic circuits and ultimately increase the recycling rate of e-waste. However, this requires the electronics industry and consumers to be open to new technologies - and financial support for these alternative approaches in order to achieve the required level of technical maturity. Let's unify our ideas for #GreenElectronics!

Retrouvez-nous les 26 et 27 novembre à Lyon lors du Salon MecaPlasTronic Connection pour vous présenter les avancées du projet CircelPaper dans lequel le LGP2 est fortement impliqué ! Financé par l'Union européenne, le projet CircelPaper a pour but de produire de manière efficiente des supports PCB en papier, d'utiliser des techniques d'impression pour y ajouter les pistes électroniques et également d'optimiser la fin de vie de dispositifs électroniques en papier Nadege Reverdy-Bruas / Arnel Brzovic

Why not using PaperPCB as substrate for your X-mas decoration? More sustainable and modular in design! Thanks Mathias Hammer for assembling and Sara Carniello to get into the LCA of our approaches. CircelPaper JOANNEUM RESEARCH

Project Meeting of European CircelPaper consortium in Gratz! A motivating Agenda scheduled by Sara Carniello & Oliver Werzer. Thanks a lot for the night-time tour of JOANNEUM RESEARCH last wednesday, 25th of September! A lots of interesting discussions within the project consortium on 26th of September: participants from Fraunhofer Institute for Silicate Research ISC, ICAPE Group - MMAB, Fedrigoni Group, VFP Ink Technologies, RISE Research Institutes of Sweden, JOANNEUM RESEARCH, University of Gdansk and LGP2. The Advisory Board, on 27th of September, was an inspiring opportunity to exchange ideas on the advices of the external members: Tom Krivec from AT&S, Peter Gasteiner from SteadySense and Ulrich HIRN from Technische Universität Graz - Institute of Bioproducts and Paper Technology. The visit of the Institute, made by Ulrich HIRN, was also an opportunity to discover the laboratories dedicated to paper: from cooking to paper manufacturing and testing. CircEl-Paper consortium carries on research for a more #sustainableelectronic based on #biomaterials!