Guideline 1
INCREASING THE CIRCULARITY OF ADVANCED MATERIALS WITHIN SUPPLY CHAINS
Optimizing the production and use of resources will be essential, considering the growing demand for advanced materials targeting the energy and digital transitions, along with ever-increasing stocks of end products, which represent exploitable resources, not industrial and domestic waste. Thus, the goal is to significantly reduce the number of materials used[8] while increasing the resilience and circularity of supply chains through improved and recycled materials, optimized designs, and efficient manufacturing processes.
OBJECTIVE 1.1. To promote eco-design when developing new advanced materials and processes.
OBJECTIVE 1.2. To deploy traceability and environmental transparency solutions within supply chains.
OBJECTIVE 1.3. To increase advanced materials recycling and reuse within the four application sectors.
Objective 1.1
OBJECTIVE 1.1
To promote eco-design when developing newadvanced materials and processes.
As of 2025, include the concept of a circular economy within the
evaluation criterion used in calls for projects launched by PRIMA Québec.
– Sponsor: PRIMA Québec
- Advancement
Integrate the life cycle analysis concept as an evaluation criterion for
projects that specifically target the development of advanced materials
and processes and receive support from PRIMA Québec.
– Sponsor: PRIMA Québec
Scheduled to start in 2030
Objective 1.2
OBJECTIVE 1.2
To deploy traceability and environmental transparency solutions within supply chains.
Raise awareness among companies in the ecosystem of the Écoleader program, intended to finance environmentally responsible support initiatives.
– Sponsor: Fonds d’action québécois pour le développement durable (FAQDD)
Advancement details:
Program opened in July for 2 years. 18 companies supported in advanced materials in enrgy and environment sectors in the last round (July 2024).
Update: January 13, 2025
- Advancement
Encourage companies to assess their own degree of material circularity. – Sponsor: Centre de Transfert Technologique en Écologie Industrielle (CTTÉI)
To be announced
Implement a traceability pilot project that brings together a large number
of stakeholders in the battery sector.
– Sponsor: Propulsion Québec
Advancement details:
Pilot project launched in mid-February 2025 that will collect key data on SCMs found in battery materials and components to demonstrate their responsible, low-carbon footprint source. OPTEL Group’s Optchain platform will be adapted and deployed as a traceability tool in six companies in Quebec’s battery value chain, including mining companies. (Press release in French available here).
Update: April 8, 2025
- Advancement
Map incoming and outgoing material flows in Québec’s industries while identifying potential synergies.
Looking for sponsor(s)
Objective 1.3
OBJECTIVE 1.3
Launch the Circular Innovation Challenge, an initiative designed to support companies that develop and implement innovative and practical solutions in the wind turbine and electric battery sectors. This challenge will encourage new eco-design methods, along with the reuse and recycling of materials within these sectors.
– Sponsors: RECYC-QUÉBEC and Cycle Momentum
- Advancement
Launch a circular economy accelerator laboratory for advanced materials.
– Sponsor: CERIEC
Pending start
CIRCULARITY
A digital platform for the reuse of composite products
The pyrofibre platform
Drawing on its expertise in composites, the Centre de Developpement des Composites du Québec (CDQC) has developed a digital resource exchange platform to help reuse, recycle and recover composite products. Composites du Québec (RICQ) share a resource that gathers information regarding deposits.
business plans for the creation of pyrolysis and recovery centers.
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