REMADE - Recycled materials for advanced manufacturing technologies

The REMADE project is part of the RM+ (Reverse Metallurgy +) project portfolio which deals with the circular economy of metals in Wallonia. In concrete terms, the REMADE project aims to recover recycled metals in very high added value products by developing different production/use channels for metal powders. This integrated approach will make it possible, on the one hand, to drastically reduce the selling price of these powders and to enhance the value of all the granulometries of these "low-cost" powders in the various additive manufacturing technologies (SLM, LMD, sintering, etc.) and associated finishing technologies (thermal spraying or cold spraying), for the manufacture of durable components, the repair and intelligent traceability of manufactured or repaired components On the other hand, this project will allow for a more significant industrial deployment of these emerging manufacturing technologies in the Walloon Region.


REMADE brings together a number of Walloon players who address the circular issue through
- the adaptation and reuse of recycled metal materials within high value-added manufacturing sectors (non-ferrous metals such as aluminium or copper, steels)
- increasing the durability and life span of manufactured parts,
- additive repair of worn or damaged metal components, initially for the energy sector,
- innovative traceability solutions (materials, characteristics, etc.) embedded in manufactured metal products and components (based on IoT and in particular on RFID identification, which is increasingly present in the circular economy and facilitates the traceability of products).
The 18 partners of this project (11 countries) will work together to develop a new approach to the traceability of metal products and components (based on IoT and in particular on RFID identification, which is increasingly present in the circular economy and facilitates the monitoring of the component's life cycle (from the initial raw material and its eco-design, life period (repair, maintenance...) to recycling and/or reuse).


The 18 partners of this project (11 industrialists, 3 CRAs and 4 university units) complete the value chains of the other RM+ projects, thus enabling the regional ecosystem in the fields of recycling and advanced manufacturing technologies to be brought together around complete value chains and to develop, in Wallonia, 'made in Wallonia' solutions, from harvesting, sorting and the first transformations of the materials to be recycled, casting, grading, production, functionalisation and characterisation of the powders (CRM, ULiege, Ionics, AGC Engineering, Materia Nova, Sirris), up to the use of these powders in additive manufacturing and finishing technologies (Any-Shape, Diarotech, Husqvarna, Westinghouse, CRM) as well as the traceability and intelligent monitoring of the manufactured parts (IT Optics, CRM). The flows of recycled materials come either from external flows via companies specialising in recycling (Comet, Wilmet) or from internal flows generated directly within partner companies, in a short circuit (Husqvarna, Marichal Ketin, Any-Shape).