Value Creation and Direct Risk Mitigation
Residue Diagnostics, Circular Process Mapping, and Regeneration Engineering activities are primarily aimed at identifying and maximizing the value embedded in industrial residues.
This process involves the systematic mapping of all potential recovery routes for a given residue, followed by the evaluation of these routes from bench-scale testing through pilot plant stages, using representative quantities of residues and generated products. Along this pathway, solutions with the highest technical and economic viability are identified.
The TRL (Technology Readiness Level) methodology is applied in a structured manner to mitigate technical risks related to operation, equipment suitability, and process scalability, thereby ensuring technical reliability and predictability throughout solution development.
The Most Concrete Risk to Applied Circular Economy
Circular Economy services are not characterized as isolated or standardized service offerings. Rather, they consist of customized activities that must be integrated into the client’s strategic management framework, regardless of the role assumed by the service provider—whether as analyst, consultant, or outsourced operator.
The internalization of Circular Economy principles within the value chain, particularly in the manufacturing industry, is directly associated with retaining the value added to residues up to their point of generation, preventing regression to earlier stages of the production process. In many cases, this approach leads to a reorganization of the value chain itself, enabling the identification of new products and opportunities within existing structures.
The role of Corporate Management is decisive for the success of genuine Circular Economy models. In many organizations, traditional result accounting systems and corporate KPIs fail to capture relevant indirect returns—such as reductions in raw material consumption, energy savings, mitigation of operational risks, and gains in resilience—leading to an underestimation of the benefits generated by circular business models.
The absence of Circular Economy–specific KPIs represents a concrete risk to such initiatives, as it may result in the devaluation of projects that deliver strategic benefits over the medium and long term. The development of appropriate metrics is therefore an essential condition for ensuring that the gains generated by circular models are properly recognized, internalized by management, and sustained over time.