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Circular economy

A commercial imperative

Companies are on the verge of a resource crisis that threatens their core business. That’s where our circular economy solution can help.

Soon companies – and not just their procurement teams – will bear the consequences of the risks related to resources availability: geological and geopolitical availability of raw materials; competition between industrial sectors and countries; lack of substitution alternatives and recycling potential; and social and environmental impact.

These risks are starting to materialize through sky-rocketing commodity prices, severe supply chain disruptions and pressure from customers, analysts and NGOs, putting companies’ core business is in jeopardy. The traditional linear model of “take-make-consume-waste” is looking increasingly untenable. There has to be another way.

Of executives polled “73% agree that a contribution to the circular economy is necessary to achieve long-term financial and competitive goals; only 53% attest to having a circular-economy strategy and only 41% of organizations have integrated circularity metrics into decisions.”

Source: CRI report Circular economy for a sustainable future

Bringing circular economy to life

How we can help

Our circular economy solution helps you move strategically and operationally from a linear economy that can destroy value, to a circular economy that preserves value. We use the principles of a circular economy to create business, consumer and environmental value, by maximizing the use of resources, components and ‘final’ products throughout the value chain and product lifecycle and ensuring the reduction of the production of waste.

Navigate and accelerate your circular economy projects from inception to fruition.

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Designed to accelerate the adoption of circular economy practices in the aviation industry.

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We believe that you can build in circular value across five entry points across the business and product lifetime:

  • Define a sourcing model that is most appropriate
  • Design circular products that minimize their resource footprint and enable revalorization processes
  • Develop product-as-a-service innovative business model to maximize product utilization
  • Extend product life with reverse operations working with existing supply chains
  • Revalorize waste by developing and scaling capabilities and infrastructure to give waste a new life.

We’re already engaging with clients to help them develop their CE roadmap in sectors such as energy, aeronautics, and automotive and are well positioned to help companies secure the future of their business and develop a resource and circular economy strategy at scale.

For example we are working with Heng Hiap Industries, a fully integrated plastic recycling company in Malaysia, to design an innovative business roadmap for a new mobile application, which rewards and simplifies the process of plastic waste recycling for consumers in their communities. Read about our involvement in a project to ‘Uberize’ plastic waste recycling in South East Asia.

Capgemini’s Circular Economy service draws on the skills from across the group, from strategy, technical engineering and data, supported by bespoke tools, frameworks, and value-chain solutions.

The result? Transitioning to circular will make your businesses more resilient, more sustainable and more socially responsible.

Read more on our Sustainability propositions in automotive and aerospace sectors, and Net Zero strategy, New Business Models and Data for Net Zero.

“Over 70% of a product’s lifecycle impact (economic and environmental) is determined during its design phase.”

Source: Ellen MacArthur Foundation  

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Client stories

    Jungheinrich’s journey to climate neutrality and a circular economy

    Jungheinrich, the leading solutions provider of intralogistics, collaborated with Capgemini Invent to consolidate data for Scope 1, 2, and 3 emissions and evaluated the lifecycle of selected products with Capgemini Engineering

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    ArcelorMittal uses data and analytics to pursue energy efficiency

    As part of a consortium with Capgemini Engineering and with the financial support of the French Environment and Energy Management Agency, ArcelorMittal utilizes new models and analytics to review waste heat at its industrial sites as well as potential solutions to recover this lost energy

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      Expert voices

      In this video, Clément Chenut, Circular Economy Expert, Group Sustainability Accelerator, Capgemini Invent, highlights an ocean of opportunities for OEMs in the circular economy. So far, most sustainability efforts have focused on the upstream end of the value chain: the provisioning of raw materials and battery production. But Clément is excited about untapped potential between end of use and recycling for vehicles.

      The circular economy

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      Expert perspectives

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      Calculating the lifecycle environmental impact of complex products: why and how

      Sylvie Cabral
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      Creating a circular economy through AI

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      A circular economy for plastics: A driver for business competitiveness and environmental improvement

      Jean-Baptiste Perrin
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      Meet our experts

      Clement Chenut

      Circular Economy Expert, Group Sustainability Accelerator, Capgemini Invent
      Graduated from Warwick University in 2015, Clement started his career at Atos Consulting in London as a digital strategy consultant before joining Capgemini Invent in Paris in 2019. Since 2015, he has developed a solid experience in leading digital transformation programmes, mainly in the banking and transport sectors. In 2020, Clement was also a member of the core team that enabled the launch of the 5G Lab for the Capgemini Group. In 2021, Clement joins the Sustainability Accelerator of the Capgemini group as the Circular Economy offer Leader in order to increase awareness on sustainability issues and accelerate the development of circular business models.

      Sylvie Cabral

      Sustainability pre-sales architect, Capgemini Engineering
      Sylvie Leads an offer on sustainability to support clients in their transformation. She has more than 25 years’ experience in sustainability and has worked across product environmental and social impact analysis, sustainable supply chains, energy efficiency, and substance regulatory compliance. She has worked for several industrial sectors including aeronautics, naval, and rail.

      Sol Salinas

      Global Executive Vice President & North America Sustainability Lead, Capgemini
      Sol is Americas and global Group accounts Sustainability Lead at Capgemini, where he oversees work across the Americas and globally on key sustainability priorities. He was the founder of ENERGY STAR and served as brand CZAR and Strategy lead from ’91 to ’05. He is a sustainability expert and digital transformation global thought leader with 25 years of experience in all aspects of sustainability and digital transformation.

      Julia Müller

      Head of Sustainability Unit (Germany)
      Julia is a strategist with a passion for sustainability and purposeful business. As such, she believes that sustainable transformation, including implementing circular-economy principles, is a priority. As leader of the Sustainability unit in Germany, she uses her strategic and implementation experience to help clients achieve their sustainability and circularity objectives. Part of Julia’s role is to demonstrate to businesses the steps that will help them realize circularity in their enterprise, and highlight the specific innovations that can be leveraged, to achieve not only their sustainability goals but to also attain competitive advantage.