Wood Circus -loppuseminaari 8.12.2021: Tervetulosanat ja johdatus WoodCircus-projektiin

2. European Woodworking Industries
in the Circular Transition
WoodCircus in a nutshell
Anne-Christine Ritschkoff
Kiertotalouden uudet mahdollisuudet ja hyviä
käyntäntöjä puualalle – Sidosryhmäseminaari
8.12.2021, Joensuu

3. Facts & Figures
Type of
Action
CSA
Topic
CE-SC5-08-
2018-2019-
2020
Duration
36 months
01/11/2018 -
31/10/2021
Max. EU
Contribution
2 973 953,75 €
Grant
Agreement
n° 820892
Reimburse-
ment rate
100% for
direct costs

4. Consortium

5. European woodworking
industries are a green engine
for sustainable growth goals
• European woodworking industries contribute to:
• EU Green Deal,
• Fit for 55,
• The New Circular Economy Action Plan
• The European Forest and Biodiversity Strategies,
• United Nations SDG 2030
• Building with wood – an opportunity to
woodworking industries to accelerate circularity
and carbon neutrality
• The new Bauhaus initiative
• Renovation wave

6. Good practices in woodworking industries
Collection and assessment
of case studies
Interviews, Fact-finding & State-of-the-Art WP2
Open Call for SMEs WP3
Process Performance evaluation WP4
Sustainability & Impact Assessment WP5
Sustainable criteria
development
Internal workshops
Feedback from expert interviews
Trial criteria with available cases
Fact
finding
Sustaina-
bility
Assess-
ment
Perfor-
mance
Evalua-
tion
Open Call
Innovative
SMEs

7. #1 Share of reused, recycled
or co-used biomass - % of
second hand biomass
#2 Recycling potential #3 Waste management
#4 Product lifetime

8. ROLE OF WOOD-BASED PRODUCTS
AND SIDE STREAMS VALUE CHAINS IN
CONSTRUCTION SECTOR IN EUROPE

9. EUROPEAN LEVEL – COMMON
FEATURES OF THE SECTOR
Strengths Weaknesses
 Well-functioning value chains and
relatively high resource efficiency (±)
 Good level of collaboration between
the actors and public and private
entities (most countries)
 Successful technologies for waste
treatment and sorting processes are
available in different European areas
for a diversity of waste types
 General positive attitude towards
circular economy approaches from
the society
 High level of competition in the
sector
 High logistic costs (long
transportation distances)
 Varying profitability and lack of
capital allow just the big companies
to fully implement circular economy
approaches
 Lack of knowledge, products and
markets for valorisation
 Regulations are often perceived as
confused, unpredictable and
laborious

10. European macro-regional potential to drive
circularity and carbon neutrality – macro-regional
specificities, strengths and potential
• Northern-Baltic macro-region: Industrial symbiosis
and business model innovation within supportive
governmental environment and good access to
forest resources
• Multi-actor cooperation between forest industry,
public authorities, financers and investors.
• Well-functioning value chains with closed-loop
operations as a result of high-level integrated
cooperation is one of the biggest strengths of the
macro-region.
• Central-Eastern macro-region: Strong potential for
green industrial growth and business model
innovations with a wide diversity of forest resources
• Access to a diverse forest resource valorized in
various manufacturing processes is one of the
biggest strengths.
• Future potential
• Central-Western macro-region: High value-
added production integrating effective reuse
and recycling steers innovation
• Recycling and waste management companies
produce a large portfolio of high value-added
products.
• Adapted novel technologies and manufacturing
processes for recycled materials into value-added
construction and furniture products.
• Southern-Mediterranean macro-region: Public
perception and procurement processes boost
innovative recovery networks and post-
consumer production
• Innovative recovery networks composed by a
large number of active stakeholders and well
functioning value chains are the engine of
efficient reuse and recycling of wood waste and
side streams
See macro-regional blogs
www.woodcircus.eu

11. Good practices collection
Study of a wide range of company cases in
reuse, recycling and circular economy approaches

12. WoodCircus White Paper 2040
https://doi.org/10.32040/WOODCIRCUS.WHITEPAPER.20
40
https://cris.vtt.fi/en/publications/european-
woodworking-industries-are-the-green-engine-of-
sustainab

13. Project Coordinator
Anne-Christine Ritschkoff
VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland Ltd.
Anne-Christine.Ritschkoff@vtt.fi