Circular Saar - Circular design thinking in the German steel industry

Paper ID: 
cest2025_00459
Topic: 
2. CIRCULAR ECONOMY AND BIOECONOMY
Published under CEST2025
Proceedings ISBN:
Proceedings ISSN: 2944-9820
Authors: 
(Corresponding) Wern B., Vielhaber M.
Abstract: 
The steel industry is currently facing many challenges, such as increasingly expensive energy and the availability of raw materials. At the same time, the transformation of many industrial processes takes time. The circular Saar project addresses these challenges by bringing together research institutions from various disciplines such as data science, engineering, political science, law and product research to investigate how circular economy processes and design thinking processes can have a positive impact on the challenges facing the steel industry.
Keywords: 
Transition, steel industry, circular thinking