Industrial symbiosis

Optimize economy, environment and resource efficiency through local collaborations. IVL Swedish Environmental Research Institute helps you develop and evaluate different solutions for industrial symbiosis.

Industrial symbiosis is a way of achieving both economic and environmental benefits for companies that organize themselves in networks for the exchange and coordination of, for example, material flows and energy.

We help you develop and evaluate various solutions for industrial symbiosis with the help of our broad portfolio of methods and tools, such as life cycle analysis and sustainability assessment. Our expertise also includes driving forces and obstacles to industrial collaborations.

Hire IVL for:

• Collaborations on material flows
• Collaborations on energy flows
• Technical analyzes such as process integration, closed industrial production systems and material flow analyzes
• Evaluation of sustainability and resource efficiency of local cooperation