Collaborating for impact

The Carbon Fibre Circular Demonstration Project is being run by the World Sailing Trust, the charitable organisation affiliated to World Sailing, as part of their Planet key focus area, ensuring sailing has a lasting positive impact and that the planet’s waters are protected and safeguarded.

Supported by the International Olympic Committee (IOC), multi-sport collaboration has been a key driver of this project – across both International Federations and sports equipment manufacturers with the aim of engaging with equipment end users.

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MarineShift360 is a partnership-driven international collaboration that was developed to drive positive, sustainable changes in design and manufacturing in the marine industry. The goal is to enable a marine industry that fully understands the environmental footprint of its products and is empowered to make a measurable shift from a linear to a circular economy.

MarineShift360 has been developed in accordance with the main international standards for life cycle assessment: ISO 14040:2006 and ISO 14044:2006.

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The Sustainable Marine Alliance, recently launched at the Yacht Racing Forum 2022 by a group of industry sustainability professionals and partners, aims to advance the integration of sustainability into the recreational marine industry in order toe accelerate the transition to a healthier ocean.

The Sustainable Marine Alliance has been entrusted to continue the momentum created around The Ocean Race sustainable boat building innovation workshop series and will work with the industry to scale up the Roadmap in 2023.

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Financed by the Region, ENS Rennes and participating businesses, Eco Sailing Design® is eager for Breton companies designing and building racing yachts to sign up to a research and development project aimed at working on new eco-design tooling.

Eleven companies are already onboard with the project which is led by a consortium grouping together the ENS Rennes, UBS, and BDI.

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Circulari Team® is a cross-industry coalition,desiged to address the recycling and repurposing of end-of-use products made with Dyneema®, an ultra-high molecular weight polyethylene (HMPE). Formed by partners from different industries, the coalition aims to drive the transition towards renewable bio- and recycled based resources within its respective industries. CirculariTeam® provides a common platform to share knowledge, resources, and technical solutions with the aim to close the loop on the world’s strongest fiber.

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Water Revolution Foundation was established on stage at The Superyacht Forum in 2018 and from it's beginning, it was a collabortive effort.

It's anchor partners include Feadship, Lurssen, Benetti, amongst others, industry leaders who shared the belief that we must change course in order to better look after our planet and guarantee the future of our industry.

Their projects include LCA and yacht efficiency tools, sustainability training, database of sustainable (product) solutions and ocean conservation.

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DecomBlades

The ten partners in the DecomBlades project aim to investigate and develop solutions for recycling the composite material in wind turbine blades. The project focus are three specific processes: mechanical crushing of wind turbine blades making the material recyclable in different products and processes; use of crushed wing material for cement production; as well as a method of separating composite materials under high temperatures, also known as pyrolysis.

The ASCEND consortium was developed to accelerate high volume composite technologies. Through public-private investment and cross-sector collaboration across UK industry, the collaboration will help develop technologies from across the UK supply-chain to develop the advanced materials and automation equipment required to manufacture lightweight structures for the sustainable air mobility, aerospace and automotive industry.

The project aims to develop flax fibre reinforcements produced locally for the composite industry at a lower cost. The outcomes of this project will enable to achieve the aspirations of using sustainable, cost effective and environmentally friendly lightweight composites as a viable alternative for automotive, advertising and sailing sectors.

Led by the University of South Brittany, FLOWER brings together 4 academic partners (University of South Brittany in Lorient, INRAe in Nantes, University of Cambridge and University of Portsmouth) and 4 industrial partners (the companies Kaïros, Teillage Vandecandelaère, EcoTechnilin and Howa-Tramico) located on both sides of the English Channel. Partners complementarity allows to span the entire value-chain, from the agricultural production of flax fibres to the R&D of materials and the commercialisation of end-products in industries.