New Circular Economy Business Model for More Sustainable Urban Construction

Circular windows by BMN and Velux

About the businessmodel
Velux cooperates with BMN in order to manufacture new windows from used pieces of wood. BMN has a waste retour depot where the used pieces are locally collected. After that the windows are remanufactured by specialist Velux.

[120101] ferrous metal filings [170201] wood [170203] plastic
BMN
Product Value Chain by step of production
StepProvide quantity and activity
Wood is harvested from demolishing projects
Wood is transported to the BMN depot
After a quality check the wood is transported to the Velux factory
Velux manufactures new windows
Windows are transported to BMN and sold again
Sales and metrics show business model holds and can scale
System proven through successful operation
Market introduction to the expressed need on the market
Principles Circular Product Design
Design products to last for a long(er) period of time

Immagini

Thursday 28 January 2021 - Last edit: Thursday 16 June 2022