Circular Materials Conference 2025 -
Nordic leadership in a changing world

Session structure

Preliminary session structure for Circular Materials Conference 2025. The programme will be updated continuously.

Day 1 - October 15th

Plenary Session 1.1

Circular Materials in a changing world

* Shaping the Circular Transition: Public Policy, Regulation, and EU Strategies
* Circular Responses to the Climate and Resource Crisis

Refreshments / Poster Exhibition
Breakout Session 1.2
1.2.1
Hydrometallurgy & direct recycling
1.2.2
Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE)
1.2.3
Climate Impact
1.2.4
Metal Recovery, Recycling and Resource Efficiency
Lunch / Poster Exhibition
Breakout Workshop Session 1.3
1.3.1
System Perspectives, Scaling and Social Sustainability in Battery Circularity
1.3.2
From Waste to Value: MSWI Fly Ash
1.3.3
CRM Critcial Raw Materials
1.3.4
New Circular Business Models
1.3.5
Project Funding Opportunites
Refreshments / Poster Exhibition
Plenary Session 1.4

* Securing Critical Materials through Primary and Secondary Pathways
* Documentary film "Europe’s Lithium Paradox"
* Introduction by director Peter Tom Jones followed by panel discussion

Summary day 1
Travel by bus to dinner at Opera House
End of day 1

Day 2 - October 16th

Plenary Session 2.1

Ensuring Technical and Commercial Leadership

Refreshments / Poster Exhibition
Plenary Session 2.2

Creating the best conditions for Circular innovation

Lunch / Poster Exhibition
Breakout Session 2.3
2.3.1
Supercritical fluids & chemical separation
2.3.2
Textile design, reuse and recycling
2.3.3
Building and Construction
2.3.4
Material Circularity and Recycling of Photovoltaic (PV) Modules
Breakout Workshop Session 2.4
B1
B2
B3
B4
Refreshments / Poster Exhibition
Plenary Session 2.4

Strengthening Nordic leadership on circular materials

Conclusions - key take aways
Conference close

Nordic Publishing
Vasagatan 7, 4 tr
SE-111 20 Stockholm

Mr Jan Ots
Phone: +46(0)73-851 61 26
E-mail: jan.ots@nordicpublishing.se

www.nordicpublishing.se

About the conference

Circular Materials Conference is a Nordic forum for industrial, scientific and commercial progress in the circular use of materials, that offers unique insight and debate in seminars, face-to-face meetings and networking for international key people, academic and commercial, that wants to be in the industry forefront at a time when we face the challenge of transformation to circular business models for the future of our planet.