News about Cirmar

November 16, 2022

EU Commission: Digital Product Passports [DPP] are coming

Earlier this year the European Commission released the Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation (ESPR) as part of the new Circular Economy package. This ESPR sets a Digital Product Passport as a key regulatory elementent to increase traceability of products and components. The regulation states that “the product passport means a set of data specific to...

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October 28, 2022

Iris van Wanrooij of EMMA Safety Footwear, partner of Cirmar, is one of the three finalists for the title ‘CSR Manager of the Year 2022’!

EMMA Safety Footwear has been using Cirmar applications since 2018. All models are equipped with C_passport®, down to the material level and the impact of all shoes on raw materials, water, energy and CO2 is known.EMMA Safety Footwear and Cirmar have been partners from the very beginning. Together with FBBasic, affiliated with Cirmar, we have been working...

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October 07, 2022

Inspiring meeting and a brain teaser at the same time!

Hosted by TI-COAST and FBBasic / Cirmar. With about 80 people, we tackled the issue of a standardized physical/chemical characterization of recovered materials, in combination with a uniform nomenclature. Participants from, among others, the analytical world, the quality world, the chemistry, the recycling world. Working together on the next professionalization and deepening of a circular...

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September 19, 2022

Important SER-advice: Without accelerating the raw materials transition, climate goals will not be achieved.

It is great that the relationship between the development of a circular economy and achieving the climate goals has now also been confirmed by the SER, the Social and Economic Council for the Dutch government and Parliament. The raw materials issue goes hand-in-hand with the emissions issue and in our view may be even more...

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September 08, 2022

Circulair building and furnishing of retail shop

On September 7, together with and on behalf of our partner RBM Retail, EFMI and about 25 independent food-retail entrepreneurs, we were allowed to discuss the circular construction and furnishing of retail stores. Why, how and what, pitfalls and traps, opportunities, value creation, as well as the need for direction and digitization were all discussed. Tijn...

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