8 Mar 2023

Turning Old Into New: MaterialLoop Project Tests Circular Economy Potential of End-Of-Life Vehicles

[gallery link="none" columns="1" size="full" ids="84024"] source: Audi AG Audi is building knowledge to close the loop on materials such as steel, aluminum, plastic, and glass Markus Duesmann: “It is our goal to reuse as many materials as possible at high quality.” First project successes: recycled steel to be used in up to 15,000 inner door parts for the Audi A4 With its joint project ”MaterialLoop”, Audi is taking the next step toward closing more material cycles in the automotive...
Wed, Mar 08 , 2023 Bill
26 Apr 2022

Pilot Project Started: Faulty Car Glass to be Turned Into New Windowpanes for the Audi Q4 e-tron

[gallery link="none" columns="1" size="full" ids="71299"] source: Audi AG One-year pilot operation of glass recycling: joint project between Audi, Reiling, Saint-Gobain Glass, and Saint-Gobain Sekurit started in January Feasibility of a glass cycle for car windows: research on recycling methods, quality, and process reliability Recycled plate glass is intended to be used for car windows in the Audi Q4 e-tron series Faulty car windows often go in the recycling bin when the cracked part ca...
Tue, Apr 26 , 2022 Bill
2 Sep 2021

Did You Know…?

[gallery link="none" columns="1" size="full" ids="63543"] source: Audi AG ...that there are up to 45 1.5-liter PET bottles in the seats of an Audi A3? Another 62 PET bottles are recycled for the carpet. ...that the Audi Q4 e-tron has a seat cover made of 45 percent recycled material? The Dinamica fabric looks and feels like suede, but is nearly half recycled polyester. This comes from textiles and PET bottles, for example. By the way, the trunk cover is also made of recycled materia...
Thu, Sep 02 , 2021 Bill
25 Feb 2020

From Bottle to Fabric: Seat Upholstery Made of PET

[gallery link="none" columns="1" size="full" ids="43996"] source: Audi AG New Audi A3 with sustainable interior concept Up to 45 PET bottles with a capacity of 1.5 liters used per seating system Many additional components made from secondary raw materials The fashion industry produces jewelry, clothes and bags from PET bottles. In addition, more and more furniture is being made from waste material such as paper shreds, plastic bottles and wood chippings. Audi is now offe...
Tue, Feb 25 , 2020 Bill