The recovered wood sector stumbles on challenges like erratic sourcing and contamination from paints, nails, and debris. Yet, this waste holds untapped potential.
The session will highlight the challenges, barriers and opportunities in the market, skills, technology, social, legal, policy and political environments for wood recycling.
A key contribution of W2W to the masterclass was exposing the audience to technologies innovations in the circular economy and making them more receptive of using digital technologies to enhance circularity especially in waste valorisation.
New occupational roles are emerging – from bio-based material experts to digital traceability managers – yet skills gaps risk slowing adoption.
This program will delve into the current reality and core concepts of the Circular Economy, specifically exploring policy in South Africa.
Team Levery is working to integrate PLA wood-based materials developed by UPV/EHU and National Technical University of Athens into prefabricated façade systems.
Dimitrios Karamouslis from CERTH spoke on the contribution of Digital Product Passport’s (DPP) towards improving Data Management and interoperability in wood materials.
This CEPS analysis paper explores the challenges and opportunities for advancing waste wood valorisation and the circular economy using DPPs.
From metallurgy to food, waste, water, and wood—each of these projects brought to the forefront the transformational power of AI and Robotics to solve real industrial challenges.
Recently, one of our consortium partners in the project, CIGIP-UPV, presented their contributions in the Wood2Wood project at ICE/IEEE ITMC held in Valencia, Spain. Javier Cuartas, Raul Poler and José Antonio Comesaña Benavides presented two conference papers at ICE 2025 on “𝑶𝒑𝒕𝒊𝒎𝒊𝒛𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝑨𝒑𝒑𝒓𝒐𝒂𝒄𝒉𝒆𝒔 𝒊𝒏 𝑾𝒐𝒐𝒅 𝑺𝒖𝒑𝒑𝒍𝒚 𝑪𝒉𝒂𝒊𝒏 𝑴𝒂𝒏𝒂𝒈𝒆𝒎𝒆𝒏𝒕”. ➡️𝐎𝐩𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐢𝐳𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐀𝐩𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐚𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐖𝐨𝐨𝐝 𝐒𝐮𝐩𝐩𝐥𝐲 𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐢𝐧 𝐌𝐚𝐧𝐚𝐠𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭:
