Speakers November 17 2024

Boliden Rönnskär produces metals essential for the society. Raw materials come from mines, but Rönnskär is also one of the world’s largest recycling facilities of metals from electronic waste. The part of the materials that can’t be used, becomes waste. The waste requires a final storage that is sustainable, safe and leaves no responsibility to future generations. The final storage at Rönnskär is a deep repository, 300 meters below the smelter. This presentation will tell you the story of Rönnskärs deep repository, including the challenges and benefits.

“Creaternity” is a future area within Luleå University of Technology. By gathering researchers from 25 different research subjects and working together with several industrial partners, we take a holistic approach to the industry’s sustainability challenges. We study and develop the technology and organisations needed to support a circular material flow, and how humans and society are affected. In a circular economy where resource use decreases but value increases, there is a need for new technology, organisations and business models that do not exist today. One part of this is the latest technology in artificial intelligence, digitalisation, telecommunications, and sensor technology that allows us to connect people, products, and processes.