East Midlands Knowledge Network Loughborough University Rozone Sustainable Technologies

Publish date: 2024-03-30

Rozone

Sustainable Technologies

Rozone
Description and aims

The project aim is to optimise the recovery of end of life vehicles. Rozone enlisted the help of the Centre for Sustainable Manufacturing and Re-Use/Recycling Technologies (SMART) at Loughborough University to develop a new cost-oriented approach to optimise the value recovery of end-of-life vehicles, while meeting recycling and sustainability targets.

About Rozone

Launched in the mid 90’s, Rozone is a company providing sustainable solutions to a wide range of industrial and commercial sectors including Defence, Utilities, Oil and Gas, Aerospace, Automotive, Government and Municipal, Emergency Services, Rail, Food Industry, Airports, Plant Hire, Telecommunications, Engineering and many more.

In today’s increasingly legislative environment, there is a demand for cleaning, pollution control and other innovative technologies that benefit employees, society and the environment, whilst at the same time delivering a reduction in operating costs and improving efficiency.

How the project is being undertaken

The 12 month secondment involved a Loughborough expert working closely with Rozone to investigate how vehicle treatment facilities currently process end-of-life vehicles, and how these could be improved to fit with new recycling legislation.

The project identified significant scope for operational improvement, and allowed the development and prototyping of new methods of vehicle recovery, furthering understanding of the most appropriate end-of-life treatment.

Impacts and benefits

The project resulted in a tool to asses the cost associated with pre-fragmentation recovery activities. It also provided a dismantling software system to support the Automotive Treatment Facilities with their material and part mining activities as part of the de-pollution process, to improve throughput and value recovery.

There is scope for this approach to be used for other product recovery sectors such as waste electronic and electrical equipment.

Advanced vehicle recovery technologies and techniques will play an increasingly important role within the UK’s vehicle salvage industry. The partnership and tools we have developed in collaboration with the centre for SMART will hopefully assist in realising the true value of end-of-life vehicles, and provide a more profitable and sustainable vehicle recycling sector.

For more information about the project

If you would like to hear more about this project, please contact Kathryn Burchell, Enterprise Office, Loughborough University.

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