23 February 2023, Rochester, New York — The 168-member public-private collaboration known as the REMADE Institute, which receives funding partly from the US Department of Energy, has just released its sixth proposal request. The RFP is a USD 20 million investment in the creation of technology to help the country achieve its various manufacturing and industrial decarbonization objectives.
These objectives include lowering energy use and industrial emissions, improving the competitiveness of American manufacturers, securing the domestic manufacturing supply chain, and developing and retaining a workforce for the clean economy to drive our country’s transition to clean energy and the Circular Economy.
REMADE is looking for technology proposals for research, development, and demonstration (RD&D) projects aimed at creating and showcasing tools and technologies in line with the Institute’s objectives to lower energy use and emissions, achieve better-than-cost and energy parity, and encourage the widespread adoption of new enabling technologies across a variety of industries, including, among others, the aerospace, automotive, packaging, and electronics. Also, REMADE is looking for R&D projects that fit the organization’s key areas and the Institute’s current portfolio.
The Institute’s focus areas are systems analysis and integration, design for reuse, remanufacturing, recovery, and recycling (design for Re-X), manufacturing materials optimization, remanufacturing, and/or recovery and recycling. All RD&D projects must align with at least one of these focus areas. REMADE concentrates on energy-intensive material classes, including metals like steel and aluminum, polymers like plastic, fibers like paper and textiles, and electronic waste. RD&D initiatives must also target one or more material classes (e-waste).
REMADE CEO Nabil Nasr stated, “By concentrating REMADE’s investment on RD&D initiatives, we can create solutions with the most substantial energy, environmental, and economic implications across the nation.
Federal financing of USD 10 million and cost-sharing of USD 10 million make up the funding. Read the complete RFP here if you want more specific information. See the revised 2023 Technological Roadmap for the Institute, which was recently finalized last week and is guiding this RFP, for more details.
Global efforts are being made to transition from the take-make-dispose linear economy of today to the make-use-reuse-remanufacture-recycle circular economy. Significant aspects of that change include reducing energy usage, and greenhouse gas emissions, using raw or virgin resources and boosting the availability and utilization of recycled materials.
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