Industrial Design Engineering

Bachelor Assignment

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Bakker, E.S. (Esmée)

Circularity with Adhesives and Sealants

At: VLK

The focus on transitioning to a circular economy has gained momentum over the past years. Closing the loop within the manufacturing industry requires a fundamental shift in thinking and knowledge is needed to be able to make well-informed choices. The VLK wants to contribute to this by identifying the bottlenecks and searching for solutions for circularity in the adhesives and sealants industry. This has been done by developing a design guide for product designers. This guide contains design techniques that help to improve the circularity of products that contain adhesives and sealants. This has been achieved by conducting research about adhesives and sealants, the circular economy and product design. Afterwards, the design guide has been tested by implementing it into a case study.

Exam date: 25-08-2021