The first International Europe-Africa Workshop on Remanufacturing will brings together global North and South experts, researchers and practitioners to explore remanufacturing innovations and collaborations. In the quest for sustainability Europe lacks raw material resource thus must determine avenues to maintain its manufacturing base by doing more with less while Africa must industrialise with minimum resource use whilst also reducing its existing manufacturing related environmental issues. Remanufacturing is a high-impact solution but is under-utilised forming less than 2% of production in comparison to the 98% of the unsustainable conventional manufacturing.
Advancements in digitization, such as AI, IoT, and data analytics, and other emerging technologies can enhance efficiency, capacity and scalability to mainstream remanufacturing. Sustainability is a global concern but efforts to fuse the expertise and needs of the global North and South to obtain viable local and global solutions is lacking. In particular, Africa’s involvement has been overlooked with the continent largely perceived as a bystander and recipient of potential solutions when such detached solutions are unfit and sustainability is unattainable without effective global cooperation and coordination.
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