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 details:
Awareness campain in the 30th general call for projects: 81% of the submitted projets fit into one of the 12 circular economy strategies.
Evaluation criterion applied in the 31st general call for projects: 93% of the submitted projects justify their inclusion in one of the 12 circular economy strategy.
Webinar (in French) on circular economy presented by Daniel Normandin, director of CERIEC and executive director of RRECQ, on April, 2nd 2025
Update : December 18, 2025
- 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). 21 projects representing 33 companies in the same sectors are supported with the current budget (implantation projects).
Update: December 18, 2025
- Advancement
Encourage companies to assess their own degree of material circularity. – Sponsor: Centre de Transfert Technologique en Écologie Industrielle (CTTÉI)
Advancement details:
Webinar on advanced material circularity on November 20, presented (in French) by Éline Laurent, researcher at CTTÉI.
Update : December 18, 2025
- Advancement
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 CSMs found in battery materials and components to demonstrate their responsible, low-carbon footprint source using OPTEL Group’s Optchain platform. Six companies to be involved during 1 year. Confirmed: Dumond Nickel, Lithion and nanoOne. (More details available here).
Update: July 4, 2025
- Advancement
Map incoming and outgoing material flows in Québec’s industries while identifying potential synergies.
– Sponsor: Centre de Transfert Technologique en Écologie Industrielle (CTTÉI)
To be announced
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
Implement or support circular economy initiatives between players in Quebec’s advanced materials ecosystem through Synergie Québec’s territorial symbioses.
– Sponsors: Synergie Québec and PRIMA Québec
To be announced
Launch a circular economy accelerator laboratory for advanced materials.
– Sponsor: CERIEC
Pending start
CIRCULARITY
Circular Impact
Concrete actions for integrating circular economy in companies
As part of the Convertgence initiative developed by the Chamber of Metropolitan Montreal and BMO, which aims to help toward the transition for sustainable businesses, several resources and inspiring cases are gathered in the circular impact tool, to help companies minimizing their environmental impact.
Among other topics, it includes resources related to adopting a circular approach when designing construction projects and choosing materials, as well as mutualizing resources by developing synergies between companies.
Would you like more information on Ambition 2035, or would you like to propose an action for the Roadmap?