{"id":171440,"date":"2025-12-11T07:37:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-11T06:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/?p=171440"},"modified":"2025-12-08T14:39:46","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T13:39:46","slug":"fraunhofer-ccpe-presents-the-monomaterial-design-set","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/fraunhofer-ccpe-presents-the-monomaterial-design-set\/","title":{"rendered":"Fraunhofer CCPE presents the \u201cMonomaterial Design Set\u201d\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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Monomaterial structures made of biopolymers (also possible in PET or polyamide) \u00a9 Fraunhofer CCPE\/Mike Henning<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n

Composite materials made from different types of plastic often extend the lifetime of products but make recycling more difficult in the circular economy. That is why Fraunhofer CCPE has developed the \u201cMonomaterial Design Set\u201d. This new approach helps to reduce the variety of plastics used in durable products and offers circular solutions for designers and product developers.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The plastics processing industry faces a major challenge: How can companies develop durable products that are also circular? The Fraunhofer Cluster of Excellence Circular Plastics Economy CCPE has found a solution: the \u201cMonomaterial Design Set\u201d. This novel approach makes it possible to avoid combinations of different plastics in numerous applications, thereby increasing recyclability without compromising the performance of the end product.<\/p>\n\n\n

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The \u201cCircular Child Seat\u201d demonstrator in monomaterial design \u00a9 Fraunhofer CCPE<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n

Innovative approaches for designers and product developers<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The \u201cMonomaterial Design Set<\/a>\u201d is aimed at designers and product developers who want to make durable and high-specification products more recyclable. Thanks to research conducted by Fraunhofer CCPE, the same thermoplastic can be integrated into a product in different forms (e.g., as fibers, foam or casting compound). PET, PLA, and PA thermoplastics have already been tested. The structure of the design set allows different manufacturing technologies to be combined to create complex components with a wide variety of shapes and high performance. The processes used include injection molding, foam production, and the processing of textiles and self-reinforced panels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A key objective of the Monomaterial Design Set is to achieve 100% recyclability of the products, as only one type of plastic is used, and so called \u201cmonomaterial<\/a>.\u201d By eliminating the use of adhesives, disassembly of components becomes unnecessary. In addition, Fraunhofer CCPE offers solutions for recyclable color pigments and flame retardant additives that ideally complement this approach. Depending on the selected material base and regional recycling infrastructure, companies are offered individual advice on how to make optimal use of existing collection systems or recycling facilities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The heads of the Research Department Application and Demonstration, Dipl.-Des. Sabrina Schreiner and Dr. Jonathan Haas, see enormous innovation potential in the Monomaterial Design Set. This approach makes it possible to implement sustainability and circular economy goals as early as product development stage. Exciting demonstrators such as the \u201ccircular child seat<\/a>\u201d and an insulated \u201creusable transport box<\/a>\u201d made from monomaterials have already been developed in the cluster. The transferability of this concept to various industries and product segments is very promising.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Design competition: Monomaterial furniture for tomorrow<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

In addition, Fraunhofer CCPE has taken on the scientific support of Nowy Styl DACH’s \u201cRe:think Design Competition<\/a>\u201d. The \u201cMonomaterial Design Set\u201d plays a decisive role here: designers can use it as a source of inspiration and technical framework to develop innovative designs for 100% recyclable soft seating furniture. The winners of the competition will be announced on April 23, 2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Manufacturing Techniques for Product Design<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Here you will find our monomaterial design set, which shows the path from polymer (PLA, PET, PA) to designed Large-Volume Components. Fraunhofer CCPE Monomaterial Design Set [\u00a0PDF\u00a0 1.62 MB\u00a0]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Composite materials made from different types of plastic often extend the lifetime of products but make recycling more difficult in the circular economy. That is why Fraunhofer CCPE has developed the \u201cMonomaterial Design Set\u201d. This new approach helps to reduce the variety of plastics used in durable products and offers circular solutions for designers and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":171471,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","nova_meta_subtitle":"Innovative solutions for circular product design","footnotes":""},"categories":[5572,17143],"tags":[11286,26125,5847,10416,12782,14173,12679],"supplier":[18649],"class_list":["post-171440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bio-based","category-recycling","tag-biocomposites","tag-biodesign","tag-bioplastics","tag-circulareconomy","tag-colors","tag-pigments","tag-recyclability","supplier-fraunhofer-cluster-of-excellence-circular-plastics-economy-ccpe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171440\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/171471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171440"},{"taxonomy":"supplier","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/supplier?post=171440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}