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ABB MOTION SERVICES CHALLENGE
Keep the track on circularity
Developing a reliable circularity certificate management tool

As governments around the world are everyday more concerned about the importance of increasing environmental policies to promote a real change in our societies, the transition to a circular economy is no longer an option if we want to face upcoming challenges with the current limited resources we have globally. As an example, based on the EU new Circular Economy Plan it is expected that incentives and mandatory legislations to increase environmental sustainability and promote circular economy models will arrive in the next 2-3 years.

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For ABB, circular economy is the way to progress and with that clear goal we aim to achieve 80% of our products and solutions covered by a circularity approach and to send zero waste from own operations to landfill by 2030. 

But before that date arrives, in ABB we are already walking the talk. We design our offering to enable a circular life cycle and avoid the use of unsustainable materials, such as the IE5 motors which don’t contain rare earth materials, or our service offering for reconditioning and modernizing drives, which extend the life cycle and ensure the reliability of this asset. In this sense, in ABB Motion Services we are already helping our customers to become more energy and resource-efficient, while enabling lower downtime, avoiding material loss, and offering lifetime extending services. 
 

We have already written a long way, but we aim to go beyond to get ready for the imminent challenges related to sustainability policies, as well as opening new business opportunities that our clients can benefit from thanks to circular approaches. And to make it possible, we need your ideas. 
 

We want you to provide a solution to ease our client’s full transparency and traceability information during the whole lifecycle of ABB Motion components so they can make sure that the solutions they get from us are completely aligned with a circular approach.
 

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We are looking for: 

• Solution capable of tracking information of ABB assets during the complete life cycle of the product: from the production until its take-back phase, including maintenance and reconditioning tasks made during the property period of the asset from the customer, as well as handling of certificates of recycling

• Solution flexible enough to integrate additional information and variables existing or not even considered yet required to forthcoming compliance policies regarding industrial sustainability, such as the digital product passport, or to business opportunities 

• Solution compliant to data privacy regulations existing in different markets

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