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EDITORIAL

‘The story of LEAPP does not mean that the business idea was wrong – but it may just be an idea ahead of its time’

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ome sad news in the industry: LEAPP, the exciting young company which takes Apple products such as iPhones and iPads and ‘makes new again’, has gone into bankruptcy. A familiar sight on many European high streets, the company has expanded rapidly over the last few years.

We have analysed the reasons for LEAPP’s predicament (p10) and have come up with a few thoughts: problems with funding and customer acceptance of reman are among them. But this is a fluid situation: as ReMaTecNews goes to press, it is still not clear whether a solution to LEAPP’s difficulties can be found. It must be hoped – for the company

and its staff, not to mention the customers – that some suitable arrangement is reached where the company can continue as a going concern.

But it is a stark reminder that retail is a highly competitive environment, that consumer electronics is even more so – and that remanufacture/refurbishment is yet to win widespread support from those outside the industry. The Dutch court decision last year - which explicitly said that a reman iPad was not a suitable replacement for a new one in a warranty dispute – cannot have helped.

LEAPP is, perhaps, an idea ahead of its time. And it may well come again.

One person who has seen a lot of ideas come and go is John Disharoon. Our interview with him (p18) covers a lot of ground but one thing shines through in particular: his belief in the need to educate people (old and particularly young) about the benefits of reman and the industry’s place in the circular economy. As he points out: “The sooner we can get to kids, the better off we’re going to be.”

As ever, please get in touch with me at editorial@rematecnews.com or message me on Twitter. In the meantime, if you are lucky enough to be going away on holiday, then enjoy the break – and remember that ReMaTecNews makes excellent poolside reading! If you still need a reman fix, then download the ReMaTec app or sign up to the newsletter at www.rematec.com. And if you are in Frankfurt on September 11, then please join me at the Remanufacturer of the Year 2018 Awards ceremony, when the winners will be revealed (p22). Our thanks to Robarcko for hosting. Details at www.rematec.com/roty...

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I N V I TAT I O N 11 September 2018, Frankfurt, Germany On 11 September 2018 the winners of the most prestigious award in the industry will be announced in the following 3 categories: NEW CATEGORIES ROTY AWARDS 2018

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Jury The RotY awards jury is drawn from a mix of experts in their field, all linked to remanufacturing across industries:

Adam Hill Chairman of the jury, Editor of ReMaTecNews

Erik Sundin Senior Lecturer & associate Professor at Linköping University Sweden

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CONTENTS

COVER STORY The world according to John Disharoon

Finding the value The recent G7 meeting at Montreal was a chance for remanufacturing to put itself into the spotlight with politicians and policy makers

The Caterpillar veteran and RIC chairman talks about the importance of education and of watering the seeds

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LEAPP: What went wrong?

The Dutch remanufacturer of Apple iPhones and iPads has gone bust - we examine the factors that may have contributed to its difficulties

Turning over a new LEAF

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Nissan has set up a new plant in Japan which is the first in the world to offer exchangeable reman batteries for electric vehicles

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News SNT opens new remanufacturing hub in Europe; Hetzel celebrates 25 years in transmissions; Sino-British remanufacturing park launched in Brussels

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Preview: Big R

‘Logistics providers can be key enablers of transition to more sustainable circular supply chains,’ says Dimitri Brink of Panalpina

The aftermarket show has moved from Las Vegas to Atlanta - but what will visitors find there? ReMaTecNews picks out some highlights

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Preview: Mobilatina & Automechanika Latin American engine reman will be providing a new rhythm to this Frankfurt show - although many familiar names will be there too

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On the block

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Diary

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APRA Europe has helped prevent legislation on reman brake calipers which would make life harder for remanufacturers

Your essential guide to where the movers and shakers of the industry are going to be

Spoilt for choice?

Engine remanufacturers must protect themselves from potential legal fallout regarding emissions legislation, warns FIRM

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NEWS

CE FINANCE GUIDELINES ISSUED Financial services groups ABN AMRO, ING and Rabobank – all members of the FinanCE Working Group - have released guidelines on financing circular economy projects. The move could mean funding will become easier to get for reman and other businesses.

Annemein Kolk, head of commercial banking at ING Nederland, says: “At this point we lack generally accepted guidance on circular finance.

The CE Finance guidelines offer a starting point for what we can see as circular initiatives in our industry and we hope they will facilitate the journey to such financing for financial services companies across the world.”

RIC-RIT GOES GLOBAL The global outlook for the reman industry is to be one of the key focuses of the RICRIT World Remanufacturing Conference, on 19-20 September in Rochester, New York. Hosted jointly by the Remanufacturing Industries Council (RIC) and Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT), speakers will include Nabil Nasr, director of Golisano Institute for Sustainability, RIT, and CEO of the REMADE Institute, and John Disharoon, RIC chairman and Caterpillar’s director, market access (see The Big Interview, p18).

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LEAPP in bankruptcy talks LEAPP, the Dutch company which made its name remanufacturing and refurbishing Apple iPads and iPhones, has gone bankrupt. The shutters are up on its high street outlets and

the firm’s websites displayed the following message: “Unfortunately LEAPP has been forced to apply for a moratorium.

On 8 June 2018 the court converted the suspension of

payments into bankruptcy. The bankruptcy trustee is currently investigating the possibilities for a restart, for which candidates have already reported. The shops and the web shop of LEAPP are closed until further notice.” As ReMaTecNews went to press, that situation had not changed and company founder Rogier van Camp has not responded to requests for comment. The firm, founded in 2011, had more than 20 stores in the Netherlands, Belgium and Germany, and reportedly employs around 200 people. In 2014, Het Financieele Dagblad named LEAPP as the fastestgrowing retail organisation in the Netherlands (FD Gazellen). ●

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Analysis: What went wrong? p10 Editorial: ‘May just be an idea ahead of its time’, p3

CER signs China co-operation agreement The European Remanufacturing Council (CER) has signed an agreement with one of the new Chinese national demonstration bases for reman. During a meeting in Brussels which also involved the European Council’s DG (Directorate-General) GROW (Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs) and DG ENV (Environment), the signatories agreed “to co-operate to achieve the successful development of the demonstration base”. One part of the brand new Chinese development site has already been reserved for UK-based businesses - with an option to expand this later to any business based in the European Union. The visit was planned to coincide with a circular economy agreement to be signed in Beijing in mid-July between the EU and China.

CER director David Fitzsimons (above, front left) asked Chinese delegates about the recent reports of policy changes in support of reman in China. “We

concluded the reforms did not address the elevated level of short-term investment risk for remanufacturing specialists in China” he explains. “Having said that…the learning-by-doing-culture in China will eventually succeed in creating world-scale remanufacturing businesses and technical expertise. Reflecting this, we plan to maintain our relationship with the national demonstration bases in China to protect the interests of our members.” Meanwhile, the CER

has released the ten research projects on which it believes the reman industry should concentrate. They include: electric vehicle battery reman; global trade barriers and solutions; reman liability; blockchain for reman; legal definitions of ‘waste’ and other remanufacturing terms; and market assessment of reman certification marks. ●

If you would like to discuss the topics, email owain.griffiths @remancouncil.eu.

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NEWS

CALL FOR WIND TURBINE REMAN PAPERS RAI Amsterdam, organiser of the International Forum on Wind Turbine Remanufacturing – which will be held at ReMaTec 2019 – is calling for papers. Participants are invited to submit abstracts covering observational, process-based research, and experimental and modelling studies of reman processes within the wind power industry. Anyone interested should send 550 words maximum to the forum organiser at rematec@rai.nl.

SNT expanding reman reach to Europe US-based automotive battery pack remanufacturer Spiers New Technologies (SNT) is opening a reman hub in Europe. The new location in Ede, the Netherlands, is designed to tap into what SNT sees as rapid growth in European electric vehicle (EV) sales and is expected to be fully operational shortly.

“We can’t afford to ignore the European market,” says

CEO Dirk Spiers. “Our new Dutch facility lets us serve that market and lets European automotive OEMs access battery remanufacturing technology that has been pioneered by SNT in the US.” SNT says the total market for EVs in Europe last year grew by 38.7% from 2016 to 287,270 cars - or 1.4% of the total European new car market.

“The growth rate of EV sales

Hetzel celebrates 25 years in transmission reman Deadline for abstracts is 10 November 2018 and speakers and presenters will be informed by 10 January 2019. The event is organised by RAI, ECN

by TNO and Holland Home of Wind Energy and topics will include the applicability of reman parts and components in the wind energy industry; the impact on the energy payback time of wind turbines as an indicator for the technology’s ultimate sustainability; and the influence of reman on the energy generation costs over the entire lifetime (LCoE) of wind energy systems.

Celebration: (left to right): Uli Hetzel, local government chief Toni Loeffler and Edi Hetzel German automatic transmission reman company E. & U. Hetzel has marked a quarter of a century in business with a two-day seminar and celebration.

People from 22 countries, including China and South Korea, attended the seminar

about transmissions and 260 people came to the anniversary party. The company was also awarded ‘TOP 100’ status, which is handed out to Germany’s most innovative medium-sized companies

is expected to accelerate in coming years in response to generous local incentives and changes in European consumer preferences,” the company says. However, SNT, which has its HQ in Oklahoma City, acknowledges that there are issues which must be ironed out. For example, while much of SNT’s business involves managing the logistics of moving high voltage batteries by land, sea and air, the laws governing this differ between the US and Europe. “While the vehicles and batteries are comparable on a global level, regulations and economics are different between US and Europe,” says Gert-Jan van der Have, managing director of Spiers New Technologies BV. “But sooner or later every battery in an EV requires removal, analysis, service and recycling. There are going to be a lot of EVs in Europe.

We have great hopes for the European battery remanufacturing market.”

– something that pleases managing director Ulrich Hetzel. “There are four million companies in Germany,” he explains. “We are very happy that our company is one of the 100 most innovative medium-sized companies in Germany for the year 2018.

Now our company officially carries the seal of approval of a top innovator. In the independent selection process our company was particularly convincing in the category ‘innovation success’.” Hetzel is responsible for commercial matters and spare parts purchase while his brother Edgar is technical director. As well as reman, the company also sells spare parts and has its own training centre at its head office in UbstadtWeiher. Founded in 1993, the firm has 35 employees.

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Scania appoints STS as reman supplier Transmission reman specialist STS has been appointed as a supplier partner to Volkswagen-owned truck manufacturer Scania. Under the co-operation agreement, STS will remanufacture “a large number of planetary gears” for Scania trucks. These gears, separate from the truck’s main transmission, govern the driver’s access to high and low gears – in effect, turning a truck with six driving gears into one with 12. A reman line was established at STS’s HQ in Stenungsund, Sweden, including the construction of a new production plant, and a coating station. “This has opened up a new market,” says STS CEO Ola Stålebo.

“Scania was extremely

Global project: Linda Alexandersson at STS meticulous in its evaluation, and the fact that we meet their requirements on supplier quality makes us proud.” The gears will be sold through Scania Service Exchange. Last year, Scania delivered more

than 82,000 trucks – a record, the company says. STS project manager Linda Alexandersson liaised with Scania’s project management team in Brazil and also had a key role in the establishment of the new

line. “The fact that this was run as a global project was exciting and stimulating,” she says. “Starting up an entirely new line of business for the remanufacturing of truck components was challenging, both for me and for the others at STS who were involved in the project. The fact that Scania truly valued our extensive knowledge of components from the passenger car side was encouraging.” Scania has extensive operations in Brazil, including truck manufacturing and a technology centre for the development and testing of new engines. The planetary gears to be remanufactured are initially stored at Scania’s logistics centre in Belgium and then transported to STS.

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NEWS

Delegation welcome RAI Amsterdam received a delegation from the Wuzhou Remanufacturing Zone in southern China. The Chinese businesspeople were travelling in Europe and took the opportunity to visit RAI to find out more about ReMaTec. From left to right: Liao Zhiyuan (office director, Wuzhou Circular Economy Industrial Park), He Jishan (economic deputy director, Wuzhou City People’s Political Consultative Conference), Chen Dazhen (secretary, Wuzhou Circular Economy Industrial Park), Niels Klarenbeek (director, ReMaTec), He Shen (vice chairman, Wuzhou City People’s Political Consultative Conference), Wu Chenghua (deputy director, Foreign and Overseas Chinese Affairs Office), Brian Luo (project manager, JSI Holdings) and Charlie Xu (business development manager, JSI Holdings).

CoremanNet opens Memphis hub Reman reverse logistics specialist CoremanNet has opened a new US service hub in Memphis, Tennessee. It offers a sorting capacity up to 1.5 million cores per year and provides a warehousing capacity of one million parts.

The company says the new location is necessary “to further improve and extend its services within the North American market”. An existing used parts sorting and warehousing facility for automotive aftermarket products has been relocated

from Atlanta to the new location. The company adds: “The centrality and infrastructure of the Memphis service hub is the perfect base to fulfil customer‘s needs to return and ship used parts from and to” the US and Canada. CoremanNet, a reverse logistics network for used automotive parts run by the Circular Economy Solutions GmbH (C-ECO), has 21 service locations worldwide and offices in Göttingen and Karlsruhe, Germany, as well as US representation in Chicago.

MERA PUSHES SUSTAINABLE LINE MERA is to hold its renamed Sustainable Manufacturing Conference 2018 on 26-27 September in the Detroit, Michigan area. With a “new name that better showcases remanufacturing as a key process in today’s circular economy”, the event “will recognise and advance remanufacturing’s role in diverse industrial sectors”. MERA believes that ‘remanufacturing’ as a term is not well enough understood by those outside the industry. “For us to advance as an industry, we need simple messaging,” MERA director John Chalifoux told ReMaTecNews. “If you say ‘manufacturing with reuse’ then lightbulbs go off in other people’s heads. The more we can mainstream what we do, we’ll have more demand.” The conference will cover topics including mechatronics, reliabilitycentred maintenance and battery reman.

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What went wrong?

In the wake of the reported bankruptcy of LEAPP, the retailer of refurbished Apple products, Ian Hall asks what went wrong – and takes the pulse of the reman consumer electronics market

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he future had seemed so rosy.

Only last year Rogier van Camp delivered the keynote address at ReMaTec’s annual conference in Amsterdam, expounding on his mission to make great products available to people for less money.

Van Camp is the founder of LEAPP, retailer of refurbished Apple products, with more than 20 stores in the Netherlands, Belgium and Germany, and also selling online.

The vision of LEAPP – whose name is an anagram of Apple - has been to continue to grow beyond these three markets into the rest of Europe. In 2014, Het Financieele Dagblad named LEAPP as the fastest-growing retail organisation in the Netherlands (FD Gazellen). The firm – founded in 2011 - reportedly employs around 200 people.

Sudden bankruptcy But it was announced on 8 June that the company had gone bankrupt. The shutters are up on its high street outlets and the firm’s websites displayed the following message (translated from local languages into English): “Unfortunately LEAPP has been forced to apply for a moratorium. On 8 June 2018 the court converted the suspension of payments into bankruptcy.

The bankruptcy trustee is currently investigating the possibilities for a restart, for which candidates have already reported. The shops and the web shop of LEAPP are closed until further notice.”

There may well, though, be a glimmer of light at the end of the tunnel. The websites have a self-penned Q&A in which they answer the question of whether the closures could be reversed: “This depends on whether and, if so, when a possible restart will be realised and whether a restarter wants to continue with the stores.”

LEAPP had been growing very fast and, according to reports, had been seeking further capital to support this. Dutch media RetailNews quotes van Camp as saying (translated from Dutch): “Due to a too-short timeframe we unfortunately didn’t succeed in getting all parties involved into agreement in time.”

Van Camp has not responded to requests for comment by ReMaTecNews.

Putting things in context LEAPP’s business has been built on refurbishing Apple products such as iPads and iPhones and gaining acceptance from shoppers that these cheaper versions are still high quality.

A tough sell? LEAPP may have been seen as a rising star but it is important to put its operation in context, given the size of the market for new consumer electronics items.

Big-name European firms in the market include Germany-headquartered MediaMarkt, which describes itself as Europe’s largest retailer for consumer electronics - having more than 700 stores in 14 countries.

That said, the market for refurbished consumer electronics is growing: consumers looking for a bargain will always be tempted by a lower-cost solution, if they believe the quality is sufficient. LEAPP’s competitors in the Netherlands include Swoop, which is actually promoted on MediaMarkt’s Rogier van Camp

LEAPP fact file * Retailer of used and refurbished Apple devices * 24 stores in cities including Amsterdam, Utrecht, Rotterdam, Antwerp, Ghent and Düsseldorf, with the most recent opening in Delft, Netherlands * Sales online via Leapp.nl, Leapp.be and Leapp.de * As well as Apple products, sold accessories and refurbished products from other premium brands such as German audio firm Sennheiser

Dutch language website.

In March, Dutch consumer association Consumentenbond published the results of its own testing and rating of 18 refurbished iPhones, including two from LEAPP. Although both LEAPPpurchased phones scored four marks out of five for quality (just one iPhone, from YourMacStore, scored a full five marks) it concluded that both LEAPP purchases were not a ‘good deal’.

Surprising events Those who heard van Camp, the company’s founder, describe his ambitions for LEAPP at ReMaTec 2017 would be nonplussed by developments, as are market observers in the Netherlands.

Gerard Spierenburg, spokesperson for Consumentenbond, told ReMaTecNews: “I am slightly surprised by the reported bankruptcy of LEAPP - they have certainly been the best-known firm in the Netherlands’ refurbished consumer electronics market, which has been absolutely booming in the past three or four years. Especially Apple iPhones and tablets are very popular. Apple products tend to keep their value as they are very well designed, so a good investment.”

Frits Mahovic, who is co-founder of LiveWall, a creative development firm based in the Dutch city of Tilburg, has a similar view: “LEAPP was the first real company focused on refurbished Apple products. In the Netherlands it was a bit of a surprise that they have gone bankrupt, firstly because the refurbished business was a great success and, secondly, almost every major city had a store.”

Mahovic continues: “The last part was their main issue - they wanted to grow too fast. It seems they simply ran out of money.”

A browse through the comments section of a news story on LEAPP’s bankruptcy on the Emerce.nl site is potentially instructive. “This was coming.

You get this if you offer no added value.

Refurbished products for a slightly lower price than new products,” said one poster.

Another on the site wrote: “What also has now helped, of course, is the fact that Apple itself also offers refurbished products. And there is a lot of competition in this area like iUsed, MacRelife, Forza, etc.”

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A third post says: “I think many refurbished providers do add value.

LEAPP was simply too expensive with really very outdated equipment. Wonder if they make a new start and, if so, what will change.”

Other comments were more positive: “Always had good experiences with this company. Products to satisfaction and customer-friendliness a high score.

Especially for the staff, very unfortunate.”

What happens next?

Business potential aside, policymakers and political stakeholders are also active in the market. The European policy background is, of course, the long-running and overarching series of EU initiatives on the circular economy.

The European Commission is currently reviewing the potential introduction of eco-design requirements around the fixing of electronics.

At an advocacy level, the European Environmental Bureau (EEB), an umbrella network headquartered in Brussels, is working alongside other organisations on a campaign badged #RightToRepair. Its call to action is clear: “Tell the EU you are tired of wasting money and resources on

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“Tell the EU you are tired of wasting money and resources on products that are impossible to repair” products that are impossible to repair.”

Two questions arise when asking ‘what next?’ In respect of the future for LEAPP and its stores, matters are being handled by a bankruptcy administrator in the Netherlands, Kees van de Meent, managing partner and attorney-at-law at Dutch firm Florent.

But there is a broader question as regards the market for refurbished consumer electronics.

Consumentenbond’s research did not paint a particularly rosy picture of most products’ quality.

Product quality At a European level, BEUC (the European Consumer Organisation) has a view on this. Aline Maigret, BEUC’s Ecodesign Project co-ordinator, tells ReMaTecNews: “Some consumer groups in European countries have already tested refurbished products and found that their quality varies considerably. One of the issues that can undermine their quality is how difficult it is to access spare parts, such as batteries or screens, for product refurbishment.”

Maigret is positive about a

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European Parliament ‘own-initiative’ report, published this May, on the implementation of the EU’s Eco-design Directive. She says that this “rightly pushed to improve the design of mobile phones and for spare parts to be made available by the product manufacturer”.

There is also a legal dimension.

Specifically, this was the Dutch court ruling last year that Apple could not use a remanufactured iPad to settle a customer dispute. As reported by ReMaTecNews at the time, a customer had bought a new iPad Air 2, which stopped connecting with Wi-Fi within four months of purchase. Apple Retail Netherlands offered to substitute the new product with a remanufactured one. However, the Court of Amsterdam ruled that the plaintiff was entitled to a new iPad as a replacement, not a refurbished one.

For LEAPP, it seems that - as befits its name - perhaps the company tried to leap forward and take too many bites out of the market for refurbishing Apple devices, too quickly. Whether new investment will be found or competitors can fill the gap and build sustainable businesses remains to be seen.

LEAPP’s reman line in happier times

Bankruptcy Leapp Unfortunately Leapp has been forc ed to apply for a moratorium. On 8 June 2018 the cour t converted the suspension of payments into bank ruptcy. The bankruptcy trustee is currently investigatin g the possibilities for a restart, for which candidates have already reported. The shops and the web shop of Leapp are closed until further notice. In connection with the bank ruptcy, Leapp is forced to apply changed conditions.

A shop front in Groningen, Netherlands and LEAPP’s closure notice ReMaTecNews

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NOTES & COMMENT

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“Logistics providers can be key enablers of the transition to more sustainable circular supply chains” Dimitri Brink

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tate-of-the-art technology and global supply chain networks are the key to enabling the transition to circular economies. Logistics providers can be key enablers and drivers of the transition to more sustainable circular supply chains in the future.

Trillions of dollars of inventory trapped in supply chains - and very high rates of scrapping - are the hidden cost of today’s take-makedispose model. And the cost is not just financial, but also environmental.

However, things are starting to change. Technology such as 3D printing, for example, makes local production of make-on-demand and personalised products more likely.

From a remanufacturing perspective, it is now becoming easier for people to get access to spare parts and repair products. We are seeing a shift from linear manufacturing to distributed manufacturing, and from linear supply chains to circular supply chains. The large batch units made in Asia-Pacific are now becoming modular products that are personalised and assembled close to customer demand.

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just moving products.

They are now increasingly taking responsibility for manufacturing and repair, as well as the local sourcing and procurement of products.

We find that once we have the skills to manufacture products, then we already have the skills to repair and remanufacture products, something we do in our facility in Dubai.

Panalpina’s warehouses in Brazil, Panama, and the Czech Republic have also been transformed into manufacturing facilities.

And we 3D-print parts in our facility in London, recently completing a project with our research team at Cardiff University, where a watch repair company wanted to fix a watch but was unable to do so as they couldn’t source the parts. We printed them using our spare parts on-demand 3D printing and the issue was resolved. The product went from labelled ‘for scrapping’ to having an extended life cycle.

For companies that move products all over the world, the transition to shorter and circular supply chains is a great opportunity. And not just a commercial opportunity but also one to combine economic advantages with wider environmentally sustainable gains.

Panalpina and the entire industry can play a major part in changing supply chains from the elongated takemake-dispose supply model of today to sustainable, circular supply chains.

Dimitri Brink, country head of marketing and sales, Panalpina Canada

ReVisits...

ReMaTec 2005 in Amsterdam was the third edition of the show but the first to be organised by Amsterdam RAI. Another change was in the air 13 years ago: the programme “comprises an important new feature - the ‘Remanufacturer of the Year’ Award”. This was “set to become a prestigious annual event for the automotive remanufacturing industry”, the show guide proudly told

visitors. “We remain confident that ReMaTec is now poised to become the leading automotive remanufacturing fair worldwide.” Quite right.

Some things never change (the rate for parking in the RAI garage was €11 per visit, which must have seemed expensive, even then). The guide’s information for visitors and exhibitors also tells a story. There was a cash dispenser in the entrance hall of the Holland Complex (in the days before cashless payments), while the exhibitor services office contained relics such as a fax machine and the chance to buy postage stamps. The centre was also a Wi-Fi hotspot which, the guide helpfully explained, “means that you can get wireless access to the internet at this location”.

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G7 MEETING: MONTREAL

Finding the value The G7 meeting in Montreal was seen as a chance for world leaders to get together and talk about some of the issues which affect us all – and behind the headlines, industry, researchers and policy makers were looking at how remanufacturing might be encouraged

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stimulate dialogue, foster agreement and increase interest with policymakers and business on how to increase such activities, it was well attended. Speaker David Parker said: “It’s one of the highest quality events I’ve been to in this field.

You got the distinct impression that the ‘A team’ had turned up – not just original equipment manufacturers but also independent operators and also people in the middle such as logistics providers.”

Sustainable management Among the presenters was Nabil Nasr, director of the Golisano Institute

for Sustainability, who talked about the United Nations Environment Programme’s (UNEP) International Resource Panel’s (IRP) study which he led: Assessment of Resource Efficiency and Innovation in Circular Economy Through Remanufacturing, Refurbishment, Repair and Direct Reuse.

Conscious that sustainable management of the natural resources of the planet must be a top priority for decision makers worldwide, UNEP set up the IRP in 2007 to look at how this might be achieved. Encouraging material efficiency and optimising the reduction

“Sustainable management of the natural resources of the planet is a top priority for decision makers worldwide, says UNEP”

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he meeting of the G7 – the seven biggest advanced economies in the world – attracts international headlines. This year in Montreal, US president Donald Trump was a lightning rod for media comment over his disagreements with…well, just about everyone. But that is just the froth.

Behind the scenes, officials and others involved in actually making changes to policy were talking across a range of subjects, exchanging ideas and thrashing out deals. In less publicised back rooms there was much more going on around the Canadian city – and some of it involved the remanufacturing industry.

The G7 workshop Value Retention Policies - Advancing Remanufacturing, Refurbishment, Repair and Direct Reuse was a case in point. Designed to

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“There is concern at the regulation around the import of reman products and the movement of cores - and the definition of what constitutes ‘waste’ products” of environmental impact are the pillars on which its efforts are based.

The full conclusions of Nasr’s extensive research are to be released later this year, but some findings were made available at the Montreal conference.

Among these are that increasing levels of interest and adoption in value retention processes (VRPs) is vital: VRP production – and getting those products to consumers – must be a key focus. But there are obstacles – chiefly involving regulation and access – which means that the flow of VRP products to potential customers is interrupted, and that businesses are not convinced that

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DAVID PARKER Director, European Remanufacturing Council (CER)

Montreal for the G7 meeting – what were you doing there?

A I was presenting a paper at the G7 Value Retention Policies workshop. There was a similar event in Europe last year which demonstrated an encouraging level of interest.

We were talking about reuse, refurbishment, repair – and, of course, remanufacturing.

The purpose of the workshop was to get more focus on what should happen next and, importantly, formulate some policy thoughts that the G7 can align around.

Q Who else was there?

A The workshop started with Nabil Nasr of the Golisano Institute in the US, talking about the research he has carried out for the United Nations International Resource Panel. He is doing a

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very good job and his project showed real, solid evidence for the values that could be reclaimed. The evidence base is solidly in place which means that people can’t wriggle off the hook! There was also an impressive selection of delegates from remanufacturing companies from Europe and the Americas.

Q What are the barriers to moving forward?

A The G7 has not made any policy statements on value retention. That’s a little frustrating but it’s definitely a moved forward. Some of the messages the G7 is going to get behind are very positive.

Q And those messages are?

A On the product front, there is much more concerted interest in electronics,

with crossover into electric vehicles as well as office products – and also a bit of a push into medical. The European Remanufacturing Network identified those areas as significant. On the policy side, harmonisation of transnational trade rules and end-of-use product shipment regulation is high up.

Q Can you pick out one theme from the workshop?

A Everybody in the room recognised the need to properly attribute - and share - product liabilities.

For instance, if you remanufacture something and it looks like an OEM product, who is liable if something goes wrong? There is an issue of reman ‘hiding behind’ brand names – in some jurisdictions OEMs would be liable.

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it is worth their while engaging in VRP practices in the first place.

Co-operation needed To this end, more co-ordination is needed between industry policy makers and other decision makers to try out the business models which are in tune with environmental and economic interests, and to ensure that customers understand the value of such products.

In short, change is required. Various logistics systems – both forward and reverse – must be connected and made as efficient as possible. To support changes that are required in the market, innovative business models must be tested. Meanwhile, in order to ensure that producers and consumers are on board with the idea, they must have access to more VRP technology and products.

Underpinning all this is the idea that circular economy principles are vital to overcome the challenges faced by the global economy – and to environmental concerns.

Cores: concern

The report suggests that decision makers worldwide must take action which will help make the mass adoption of VRPs a possibility.

Important step The research is an important step forward in this debate because it will, for the first time, make an attempt to quantify why reman (a significant branch of the VRP tree) is so important and what might happen if law changes to encourage VRPs are put in place. Nasr

and his team looked at the circular economy in four countries - China, the US, Germany and Brazil (accounting for 44% of the world’s manufacturing output) – and examined variables including emissions, material and energy consumption, economic value and the labour potential.

In an interview with ReMaTecNews last year, Nasr expressed concern at the regulation around the import of reman products and the movement of cores, for example. The definition of what constitutes ‘waste’ products is also an issue, putting barriers in the way of reman in many countries – and making it expensive or unattractive for companies to enter the market.

He promised that the IRP study “will shine some strong light on these issues”.

Data is the key to proving value, and that is going to be vital in agreeing concrete measures to overcome the barriers for reman – and promoting reman with industry and the consumers on which the success of the sector will ultimately depend.

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THE BIG INTERVIEW

THINGS THEY DIDN’T TEACH YOU IN SCHOOL – but maybe should have John Disharoon has spent a distinguished career working for Caterpillar. He talks to Adam Hill about education – and about watering the seeds sown in this year’s first Reman Day

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t exceeded our expectations,” says John Disharoon, chairman of the Remanufacturing Industries Council (RIC). He is talking, of course, about the first Reman Day – the global celebration of remanufacturing which took place in April.

The idea, Disharoon says, stemmed from a discussion during a meeting of the executive committee of the RIC. Luminaries such as past RIC chair William Davies and Golisano Institute of Sustainability director Nabil Nasr were talking about the previous October’s Manufacturing Day – now a fixture on the industrial calendar. “Bill Davies said: ‘Hey, what about Remanufacturing Day?’ We batted it about. Nabil Nasr said: ‘I think we can pull this off’.”

Sustainable resources If the first Reman Day was a good start (see One Day in Your Life, ReMaTecNews June/July), there are a number of events celebrating the idea of sustainable resources. Among the best-known of these is Earth Day – which is supported

by MERA (now rebranded The Association for Sustainable Manufacturing) – and which also takes place in April. Leaving aside the idea that this could represent a dilution of reman’s effort to make itself better known, anything that takes reman nearer to the mainstream, into the public consciousness, is by definition a good thing. In addition to his RIC role, Disharoon’s day job is director of market access at Caterpillar, and he saw a response from the company’s customers on Reman Day. “At Caterpillar we got people calling us up,” Disharoon says. “It really caught on. I’m looking forward to growing it.”

For all that, reman does have something of an identity problem with the wider public: it tends to float under the radar. “Well, it’s not a consumer product,” reasons Disharoon.

“It’s a service option, an aftermarket opportunity. It’s a very important part of the economy but it’s not sexy – not like the latest iPhone or TV programme. It’s tougher because people like the latest, the fastest.” Many people, if asked to choose between paying $400 to fix their phone screen, or paying $250 to buy a reman unit, would take the first option.

But Disharoon thinks that wider social movements offer some optimism for the remanufacturing industry. “The next

generations are becoming more socially aware,” he says. People increasingly understand that the earth has limited resources and that everything we do to the planet has a significant effect on the environment.

Disposable economy “We grew up in a disposable economy,” he muses. “But now you can’t put your telly by the curb.” A good thing too, of course, and part of the reason for that is that local authorities won’t tolerate it.

Law-makers tend to create laws which either reflect changing public attitudes or which are intended to change those attitudes more quickly. This means that legislation is one part of making reman more widely attractive – by eradicating barriers to core movement, for example - but education is crucial here, too. Children whose parents work in remanufacturing are already exposed to the advantages of ‘making new again’.

But that still leaves all the rest, who don’t have a clue why it makes sense to be purchasing, say, a reman iPhone rather than a new one.

This is the message which must be put out there while children are receptive to the possibilities that reman offers – not just when they are in technical or high schools, says Disharoon, but to infant pupils too. In other words, start ‘em young! “The problem is the reach,” he says. “But the sooner we can get to kids, the better off we’re going to be.”

While the reman industry undoubtedly has a lower profile than would be ideal, Disharoon thinks that the inaugural Reman Day was a success in part because there is already a shift in attitudes.

“We caught some wind in our sails,” he says. “It was only five or six years ago that Manufacturing Day was officially recognised and it’s now phenomenally successful. We’re working to expand coverage.”

Range of experience Disharoon is a ‘lifer’ at Caterpillar, with his experience ranging from technical writing to marketing, public affairs, sustainability, mining and market access.

His first exposure to reman came 30 years ago at a factory tour in Mississippi when he was in the marketing training programme at Caterpillar, learning about the company, the dealers and products.

“I thought: ‘This has got to be one of the

best-kept secrets in the world!’” he recalls.

Cat Reman is undoubtedly now one of the best-known remanufacturing brands in the world. But as he points out, you would struggle to sell the idea to customers – despite its green advantages - unless there was a strong economic argument. “You can talk about the environmental attributes but it has to make business sense for them – and for Caterpillar,” he says. “When Cat started remanufacturing 45 years ago we were satisfying a customer need.” Companies could not wait a week for a rebuild so it made sense to have a stock of cheaper options available instantly. “There was a hesitation there,” says Disharoon. “Are we cannibalising new sales?” However, buying habits are deeply ingrained. His own uncle, for instance, would never get his Cadillac repaired anywhere but his own dealer, despite cheaper options always being available. In much the same way, there will always be people who would never consider reman.

Sky’s the limit “Some customers are always going to buy new,” Disharoon continues. “We’re more than willing to sell a new part.

You also have a whole bunch who don’t want to pay for new but want to be sure of quality. What reman does is give us a price point between a new part and an aftermarket part, which can be 40-50-60% less than new.”

This opens up opportunities. “Is there a limit to reman? The sky’s the limit,” he insists. “We’re up to 7,000 to 8,000 unique parts now. It’s going to continue to grow, with the world’s resources under constraint.”

And as everyone knows, the remanufacturing industry is undergoing significant upheaval as innovations such as electric vehicles become more prevalent. “That changes the dynamic of the autoparts industry,” he says. “You don’t need sparkplugs if you’ve got an electric drive.”

Next year’s Global Reman Day takes place on 11 April. “We’re talking about it,” says Disharoon. “RIC represents more sectors so we may expand the scope.” However RIC decides to go, it is important to “water the seeds” so that the event grows, he concludes.

Disharoon is comfortable with where things are, but knows better than most that there is much more to do.

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BIG R SHOW: PREVIEW

Big R has relocated from Las Vegas to Atlanta

Raising sights in Georgia Remanufacturers are Atlanta-bound and will be joining with NACE Automechanika to show off new products, to network – and to meet new customers. ReMaTecNews US correspondent Denise Rondini talks to some Big R Show exhibitors

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tlanta, Georgia is the place to be from August 8-10 as the Automotive Parts Remanufacturers Association (APRA) hosts its annual US convention: The Big R Show.

Having moved from Las Vegas, this year Big R is co-locating with NACE Automechanika, billed as the US’s leading international trade fair for the automotive service and collision repair industry.

The event, held at the Georgia World Congress, will feature 3,400m2 of exhibition space housing more than 350 exhibiting firms in eight product groups: • • • • • • •

parts and components electronics and systems accessories and customising repair and maintenance dealer and workshop management car wash, car and recondition alternative drive systems and digital solutions • tyres Attendance is expected to top 7,700.

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Joe Kripli, president of APRA, says the association chose to co-locate with NACE Automechanika for a variety of reasons - including the audience it attracts. “Our exhibitors want to see installers, repair shops and manufacturers; at this show they will get a good cross-mix,” he says.

“With the collision people in attendance this gives us a whole other avenue we have never been in front of before. If a car is wrecked the collision repair people may have to put on new calipers, rotors, water pumps, a reman engine, what have you. I am looking forward to that opportunity for our members.”

New customers Exhibitors agree that meeting potential new customers is a primary reason for attending the show. Elisa Carlini, marketing and communications co-ordinator for Italian firm Gobbi Spare Parts, says the company is attending the show “because it is an excellent showcase in the world of the spare parts market”. She adds that it gives the company “the possibility of interacting with local businesses”.

Tony Pavesich, surface finishing industry leader at Houghton International in Chicago, adds: “We are exhibiting to showcase our technology and to meet potential new customers in the industry.”

Houghton specialises in remanufacturing chemicals, including cleaners, paint strippers, rust and oxide removers, metal working fluids and complete processes.

He hopes to come away from the show “with an increased awareness of the needs of the industry as well as new contacts that have a need for our experience and expertise in this area”.

ARMEX is a global leading brand of sodium bicarbonate abrasive material media located in New Jersey. While business manager Brian Waple says reman is one of the company’s key markets, it is also using the show as an opportunity to launch a new product for the first time in over a decade. Re-Man XL is a blasting abrasive specifically formulated for the transportation, remanufacturing and rebuilding industry. Complete details about the product will be available at the show.

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New products Houghton will also be introducing a new line for cleaning and stripping paint from aluminium components. Tec Strip 6 Plus provides faster and more efficient cleaning and paint removal than anything previously on the market, according to Pavesich.

Meanwhile, Ashburn Chemical Technologies, from Houston in Texas, will also be debuting a new product.

EnviroGreen SuperSonic is an ultrasonic cleaning solution. Ken Wollin, vice present of marketing, says: “In ongoing tests, this product has proven to outperform traditional ultrasonic cleaners in cleaning speed and total particle removal.”

The company has expertise in manufacturing chemical solutions specifically formulated for remanufacturing applications. “We have recently developed new technologies that surpass current formulations for cleaning, degreasing and removing carbon deposits from core components including engines, transmissions and related parts,” Wollin adds.

Ashburn is exhibiting at the Big R show in order to meet with reman professionals looking for ways to

Cleaning up in Atlanta Several manufacturers of cleaning products will be introducing new products at this year’s Big R Show. ReMaTecNews chatted with them about the latest trends and developments in cleaning products and cleaning technologies.

Ken Wollin, vice president of Ashburn Chemicals, says: “Although not new, there has been an increase in the use of ultrasonic cleaning processes in reman cleaning operations.” He adds that the company has developed a new waterbased ultrasonic cleaner-degreaser to meet the needs of the reman industry.

improve productivity in their cleaning processes, increase chemical bath life, reduce waste disposal and reduce overall operating costs, he explains.

New ideas In addition to exhibits at Big R, there will also be seminars and speakers.

All activities at the event are open to APRA members including workshops and educational sessions. Kripli says APRA decided to piggyback on

Brian Waple, business manager at ARMEX, cited green products and nondestructive cleaning as two trends he is seeing when it comes to cleaning products and cleaning methods.

According to Tony Pavesich, surface finishing industry leader at Houghton International: “The biggest trend is [hazardous air pollutants] HAPs-free paint stripper technology that allows the end user to increase production throughput while ensuring that they remain environmentally compliant with all new regulations.”

Automechanika’s programme. “There are technical seminars on things such as electronics and turbochargers and fault code diagnostics and transmissions,” he says. “There is just such an array of subjects. There are even sessions on HR [human resources] and IT. This is beneficial to our members.”

Houghton’s Pavesich says he is excited about the move to Atlanta: “Hopefully it allows more attendees from the eastern US.” Waple says the show’s location does not matter to him, but he is “happy that the show is now part of Automechanika”.

In fact, he says: “If the Big R did not join Automechanika, we would not have attended the Big R show this year.”

On the other hand, Wollin has some concerns about the attendance at this year’s show. “This is our first time exhibiting, so we hope the attendance is as good or better at this new location.”

Kripli adds that further out APRA is looking to host its convention in different cities. “We have to determine is Nashville a good place? Is San Diego?

We definitely want to move around and cover the Midwest, Southeast, West Coast to give people more opportunity because there are a number of people who just don’t want to travel far - or who can’t.”

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PREVIEW: AUTOMECHANIKA FRANKFURT / MOBILATINA

European aftermarket incorporates Latin rhythm

Reman possibilities Content at Mobilatina will be presented in Spanish (with an English translation) and the two-hour presentation is open to the public. Organised by the Instituto

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de Estudos da Mobilidade, Mobilatina follows on from an event last April, Rectilatina, during Automec in Sao Paulo, Brazil, which was attended by rebuilders from countries including Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Peru and Uruguay.

Scheduled speakers include Clemens Ortgies of FIRM, Sebastian Urbano of Amuyen Motors and Chehayeb himself.

“The reman of engines is our business

– but what would happen in a world with no engines?” Chehayeb asks. As some European countries have set out plans to eventually ban internal combustion engines, other possibilities in reman – such as electric vehicles must be investigated. The idea of car ownership itself is even changing – with people, especially in urban areas, beginning to think about whether they

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obilatina, a new event aimed at the Latin American engine market, will be held during Automechanika Frankfurt. Its ambitious themes cover the state of the art for internal combustion engines today, with ideas for engine remanufacturers and rebuilders to be competitive in a changing market - and insight into how artificial intelligence and the Internet of Things (IoT) will affect the world of reman in the next few years.

“It’s a very disruptive economy today,” explains Omar Chehayeb of engine trade body Conarem. “The economy is changing very fast: 80% of all the data we have in the world now, we didn’t have in 2016 at the last Automechanika.

We’re producing more information every day.”

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Automechanika Frankfurt is the biggest event in the European aftermarket in 2018 – but this year it will have a different flavour. Adam Hill finds out about Mobilatina, a new initiative for South American engine remanufacturers

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Reman to the fore This is the 25th edition of Automechanika Frankfurt and it is a magnet for companies serving the automotive industry. A host of remanufacturing companies will be exhibiting, showing off new products as well as their existing lines. These cover the full range of automotive reman and, as ReMaTecNews went to press, they included (Hall and stand numbers in bold): Omar Ricardo Chehayeb ●

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need to own an asset which is idle for the vast majority of the time.

Opening minds “I believe that visitors [to Mobilatina] can expect to get insights on considerations they might have never thought about before,” Chehayeb continues. “Business is never going to be as it used to be. And the main thing is that the Spanish-speaking audience will have for the first time an event, done in the heart of Germany but spoken in their own language.

It is exciting, the idea of having Messe Frankfurt as the stage for a presentation tailored to South American audiences.”

Conarem wants to establish a regional network of engine rebuilders under its umbrella. “All the economies of Latin America are weak today,” insists Chehayeb. “Argentina, Brazil and Mexico all faced severe devaluation of their currency. We’ve been losing power of purchase. Business is becoming each day more difficult. We are going to a different level and if we’re not aware of what’s happening we’re going to be in trouble soon.”

Chehayeb’s final message to potential visitors? “Come and see what’s happening because what’s happening will change their business and their life,” he concludes. “Try to open your mind to new possibilities.”

Mobilatina: Wednesday 12 September, 14.00 at Facette in Hall 3 Via West

Ganzeboom Transmissies 1.1 K08 and Hetzel 3.0 H70 (transmissions) Autoenterprises 4.1 E61 (core supply) Mds Diesel Remanufacture 5.0 E51 (pumps) ARTEC 3.0 F18 and Robarcko 4.1 D82 (starters & alternators) D&V Electronics 4.1 L48 (testing equipment) Circular Economy Solutions 4.0 C52 (core return) Knorr-Bremse 3.0 E91 & 3.0 G98 (braking and control units) ACtronics 8.0D55 (engine electronics) Honeywell Garrett 4.0 B30 and Armec 5.1 C28 (turbochargers) Belgium Truck Technology 5.0 E71 and Roadlink International 5.1 C78 (brake calipers)

In addition to the thousands of exhibitors on the show floor, there is a full programme of technical lectures, networking events, training sessions and presentations.

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RotY 2018 Awards: the winners’ ceremony The Remanufacturer of the Year trophies will be awarded during Automechanika Frankfurt in a ceremony at the Robarcko stand, D82, in Hall 4.1: 1. BEST REMAN PROCESS OPTIMISATION Focusing on companies with, for example, innovative cleaning technologies, state-of-the-art end-of-life testing, high-end core sorting procedures or other high-quality initiatives.

2. BEST REMAN BUSINESS INNOVATION The winner should be an inspiration to other remanufacturers, and might include independents who managed to work with OEs, or providers of reman as a service, and so on.

3. BEST REMAN AMBASSADOR Recognising an organisation or individual that has significantly contributed to the awareness and/or acceptance of remanufactured products with the general public, or with policy makers.

Go to www.rematec.com/roty RotY 2018 Awards ceremony: Tuesday 11 September, 16.00 at Robarcko’s stand D82 in Hall 4.1

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Turning over a new LEAF Facilities are in place in northern Japan to remanufacture Nissan’s LEAF car batteries.

ReMaTecNews Asia-Pacific correspondent Tim Maughan learns about the new site the world’s first to offer exchangeable remanufactured batteries for electric vehicles

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nlike a conventional car, there is no combustion engine in Nissan’s environmentally-friendly LEAF. In its place is a potent battery – a slab of a power unit, which sits beneath the driver and passenger seats, powering an electric motor. In 2010, Nissan and the Sumitomo Corporation formed 4R Energy: its remit, quite simply, was to remanufacture these EV batteries and get them back on the road.

The 4R plant opened in May, and is located in Namie, Fukushima Prefecture, just 5km north of the site of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster of 2011 - when that power station was destroyed by the Tohoku earthquake and tsunami. The 4R facility is the first factory to be built in the district since the incident and is expected to help revitalise the local economy.

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on effect in Namie. The LEAF batteries have proven to be extremely reliable, meaning that there is little need to repair or remanufacture them during the course of their scheduled operational life. First generation batteries have an eight-year or 160,000km - warranty. Nissan says that a battery would be expected to operate smoothly for a decade. This is the reason, says a company spokesman, that at the moment a ‘skeleton’ staff works at the Namie facility. Only now, eight years after LEAF’s robust lithium batteries took to the road, is reman even needed.

The spokesman states: “The simple fact is that we don’t have many LEAF batteries coming back to us yet. We launched the first-gen LEAF in 2010, and most of these vehicles are still on the road and performing without issues. Since initial sales were (naturally) lower than subsequent sales, the end-of-life batteries we’re getting are generally from these

initial vehicles, so the number is still low.

This is basically a good thing, since it demonstrates the longevity and reliability of the LEAF’s batteries. As far as 4R Energy is concerned, however, it means that volume will remain low for a while, and that the operation will remain small.”

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made a 30 kWh battery available, and last year launched the second-generation LEAF with a redesigned 40 kWh battery pack. “Neither of these are covered by 4R Energy’s operations, however, because no batteries from these vehicles are coming back to us at this point,” the spokesman adds.

Painstaking process Customers pay ¥300,000 yen, equivalent to $2,700, for a remanufactured LEAF battery. A new battery costs around twice that. The batteries are taken to the Namie factory, where their modules are examined. This painstaking process used to take Nissan 16 hours per battery, but 4R has got this part of the process down to just four hours. Modules with more than 80% capacity are remanufactured; those which fall short are put back together, and sold as batteries for machinery like forklifts and golf carts.

The plant will be the world’s first to offer exchangeable remanufactured batteries for electric vehicles (EVs). At full

A 4R technician gives a LEAF battery a new lease of remanufactured life capacity, it will be able to handle 2,250 batteries a year.

Speaking about EV batteries in general, Mitsutaka Matsumoto, senior researcher at Japan’s National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), explains that, at this time, there are some

grey areas in the industry: factors such as the standardisation of prices for reuse batteries, techniques for the diagnosis of performance and the remaining lifetime of reuse batteries, and defining who is responsible for the reliability of reuse products. A quality assurance, or certification system, he says, is needed in the reuse battery sector, and attention must be given to the development of reuse battery markets. Matsumoto stresses, though, that there are more complex subjects to deal with, over and above batteries. “I feel that though battery

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BATTERY REMAN

Nissan LEAF battery reman: fact file Statistics and details are vital in understanding this Japanese reman story: the Namie factory only refurbishes first-generation Nissan LEAF batteries, produced from 2010 to 2017 - and only works on domestic units. LEAF batteries in foreign markets such as the US and the European Union do not undergo remanufacturing in Japan. A grand total of 289,146 first-generation LEAF cars (battery configuration: four cells x 48 modules) have been made. Of these, 81,632 were sold in Japan. First-generation LEAF batteries (pictured left) generate 24kHw of power; at cruising speed, 2010 models had a range of 200km. By 2017, with years of gradual improvements, that range had increased to 400km. The latest generation of LEAFs are driven by a more potent eight-cell battery (pictured below), each consisting of 24 modules; they produce 40kHw of power.

“Customers pay ¥300,000 yen, equivalent to $2,700, for a remanufactured LEAF battery. A new battery costs around twice that”

reuse and refurbishing are of course important, other components’ refurbishing is even more challenging, such as that of EV motors,“ he says.

Zero emissions Nick Maxwell, Nissan spokesperson, tells ReMaTecNews about the company’s wider EV strategy. He states: “Nissan is the industry leader in zero-emission vehicles, having sold more than 330,000 Nissan LEAF electric vehicles globally.”

The availability of used lithiumion batteries is expected to increase significantly in the near future as buyers of the first generation of electric cars look to replace their vehicles. “The recycling

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and refabrication of such batteries is expected to have a substantial impact on the battery industry, affecting demand for new battery materials, and on the environment and society as a whole,” Maxwell goes on. “The company has developed a system that quickly measures the performance of used batteries, and it plans to apply this innovative technology to batteries collected from all over Japan, at the Namie plant.”

Development is a central part of the Namie facility, too. “The Namie plant will serve as a primary global development site. In terms of production, we will begin operation with an annual capacity to recycle batteries from 2,250 LEAF vehicles.

Moving forward, we will continue to ascertain the number of units we recover, as we consider the expansion of the facility and increasing the shifts of plant workers to raise the overall output of our factory.”

Groundbreaking programme The Namie facility is just weeks into its operation and its staple is the first generation of LEAF batteries. But this is just the beginning. Maxwell confirms that Nissan seeks expansion of this groundbreaking reman programme and that, with time, there could well be LEAF reman activity in other places.

He says: “Our initial goal will be to recover all the batteries from the LEAF and to have the ability to recycle the recovered batteries. Going forward, we plan to expand the programme to cover the 30 kWh LEAF (which launched in 2015), followed by the 40 kWh LEAF (i.e. the second-gen model). At present, we haven’t announced a specific timeframe for this, but we expect to expand our battery recycling business to other cars by the end of 2020.”

In this particular reman business, there are no clutches, no fuel injectors, and no alternators. It is a sector powered by batteries and electric motors – and the opportunities seem abundant.

“The Namie plant still has room for expansion so that will be our next step. If the number of units we recover should increase and demand for recycled batteries grows, we will consider adding new plants at other locations,” Maxwell concludes.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Tim Maughan is Asia-Pacific correspondent of ReMaTecNews

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4

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08.324

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08.524 08.419 3 4 5

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08.420 4 5 8.975

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8.974

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4

08.624 08.523 3 3 5

8.957

8

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8.988

08.422 4 5x4

8.973

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5

08.72008.621

4

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6

8.987

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4

08.526 08.421 3 4

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4 5x3

4x3

4

8.971

4

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6

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08.528 08.423 3 4

4

08.626 08.622 3 3

08.722 08.623 3 3 5 8.956

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6

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4

08.625 3 8.970

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8.984

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4

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6

8.983

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3

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5

8.982

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9.1852

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4

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4

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4

09.314 09.312 3 3

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9.29

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09.315 3 4

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09.409609.407

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9.1849 9.1847

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09.216 3 4x3

9.18

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4

09.114

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4

4

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4

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9.1844

09.112

09.108

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09.106

09.102

09.100

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6 3

09.201 6

4x6

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3 9.1840

9.1841

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9.16

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4

09.207 6

4x6

9.1843

09.116

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4x5

4

09.2096

4x4

4

4

5

4x7

4

09.2134

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7

4x5

4

09.2156

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09.117 3

5

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4

4

5

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9.12

9.11

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APRA Europe blocks anti-remanufacturing regulation attempts The reman industry has to be wary of laws which will make things more difficult and expensive for companies to operate. Peter Bartel explains how APRA is helping to put the industry’s case forward One of the key elements of APRA Europe’s past and updated value proposition (see our new flyer at www. apra.org/europe) is to protect the industry and the public from misleading information and to actively influence law-making institutions. I would like to prove that we do not just talk about this, but also act. So, in this edition, please read about how we stopped a regulatory initiative at United Nations level which was out of place from our remanufacturing perspective. I am talking about several approaches by some original manufacturing companies to UNECE (United Nations Economic Commission for Europe).

This is the organisation which defines and harmonises regulations for vehicle components and issues corresponding certificates. These approaches were first made about eight years back and it took until 2017 for a final decision to be reached.

Expensive tests Their claim was this: if brake pads as well as brake discs have an ECE certification (reference ECE R90), then brake calipers should also be ECEcertified. It had been stated that there would be tremendous risks coming from non-OE or remanufactured calipers for heavy-duty applications. If this approach had been successful it would have resulted - at the very least - in the requirement of expensive endurance tests for different products sold by a remanufacturer and these would have to be paid for to prove product quality.

In order to back up this claim with facts and figures, the corresponding UNECE working group requested the industry

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to come up with a position and to provide evidence illustrating such risks.

At this point, we at APRA Europe clearly communicated our position. We started lobbying, aligned with other people and associations, and asked major companies to also make their arguments. The outcome was three key messages which we delivered to the responsible people at UNECE: 1. Necessity of caliper regulation The brake system of a vehicle is designed in such a way that critical parts are redundant: the failing of one of these parts will immediately be noticed by the driver and sufficient brake capabilities will remain to stop the vehicle safely.

Without active mechanical manipulation of the vehicle brake caliper, a failing of the safety concept of a brake system is unlikely. Therefore, the industry cannot see the necessity for a vehicle brake caliper regulation!

3. Proposal for critical parameters and tests representative for caliper certification Each caliper is individually adapted to the individual braking system of the vehicle. Therefore, the industry cannot propose general critical parameters and tests representative for individual caliper certification.

Subsequent to communicating our position and as a final outcome of the working group, UNECE stated that there would not be any proven facts supporting a call for UNECE certification of remanufactured calipers. As you can see, with the support of our members and by acting together we are able to move things in the right direction.

APRA Europe, the voice of remanufacturing since 1941, promotes and defends the remanufacturing industry.

2. Regulation for remanufactured calipers Over the last decade, the automotive industry had a special focus within their product field observation on remanufactured calipers. Up to today, we have not found one single accident which was due to safety-relevant failing of a vehicle brake system due to a remanufactured, badly-rebuilt brake caliper.

Therefore, the industry cannot justify regulations for the remanufacturing of vehicle parts.

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INTERNATIONAL BIG R SHOW The Big R Show is switching from Las Vegas and will co-locate with NACE Automechanika for the first time.

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AGRITECHNICA ASIA The first spin-off event from the world’s largest trade fair for agricultural machinery and equipment.

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MOSCOW INTERNATIONAL AUTOMOBILE SALON Moscow, Russia

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AUTOMOTIVE AFTERMARKET PRODUCTS EXPO (AAPEX) Las Vegas, USA

November 2018 SAO PAULO INTERNATIONAL MOTOR SHOW São Paulo, Brazil

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Spoilt for choice?

When it comes to sourcing components, there is a lot of choice on the internet. But the potential legal fall-out from emissions regulations means that engine remanufacturers must ensure they are protecting themselves, warns Volker Schittenhelm The crucial factor in the pollution of the environment from road traffic is vehicle exhaust emissions. In the past few years, the type approval of a new car was the final step prior to its launch. Meanwhile, the testing of the conformity of passenger, light commercial and heavyduty vehicles (the in-use conformity check) was introduced to determine the durability of engine components and systems for exhaust emission treatment.

Vehicles already on the roads are to be examined again, ensuring that the systems and components relevant for the exhaust emissions of a vehicle will also function after several thousand kilometres.

Even authorities like the police have - or will have in the future - the right to pick a car from the road and check its emissions.

cylinder head where the garage has never seen the whole engine, let alone the complete car? An engine dyno test bench would be unusable.

car registration authorities. Type approval is the basis for the manufacturer to be allowed to sell that specific car, and it is also the basis for car insurance.

Sphere of influence

What components are emissions-relevant?

• Engine type in detail with displacement, number of cylinders, bore x stroke, power, torque, fuel consumption etc.

• Turbocharger with exact type specification • Injection pump/nozzles • Engine control units (ECUs) • Airflow meter • Intercooler • Air filter • Exhaust system with air backpressure • Intake air system and much more…

Let’s now focus on engine products and components with relevance to emissions and which are in an engine remanufacturer’s sphere of influence. The engine is the component between the air inlet and the exhaust system. Thus it is – together with the turbocharger, injection system and others - mainly responsible for the origin of exhaust emissions. Exhaust emissions are limited as per European legislation, so they are defined and documented in detail. Each new car type has to be specified and documented by the respective authorities prior to its general release by national

What’s that got to do with engine reman?

If a car on the road does not meet emissions limits, the car will be withdrawn from circulation, and the driver fined.

The car owner will contact the car manufacturer. So far, so good.

But what happens if the engine was remanufactured by an independent special garage covered by FIRM? In that case, the engine remanufacturer and its repair work will be very soon under scrutiny. If the independent can prove that the remanufactured engine was within emission limits, all is clear. If not, there is a big problem.

How to solve that? The best thing would be to have an engine dyno test bench with emissions measuring devices – but that’s too expensive and, given the wide variety of engines on the market, not realistic. And what about engine components like a remanufactured

“In case your customer comes with a turbocharger from an unknown source – be warned”

So if you have your old and failed turbocharger or injection pump – or any other listed components remanufactured by specialists working to OEM specifications you are on the safe side. But if you are seduced by a very attractive and seemingly serious offer from the internet - or in case your customer comes with a turbocharger from an unknown source – be warned: it is a very risky and potentially expensive decision to install and exchange emission-relevant components if they come from unknown sources – and the internet is full of them.

Therefore sourcing emission-relevant components from well-established, competent spare parts dealers, backed by field service staff, is the right and only source to be recommended. Spoilt for choice? Not really!

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