Conferences
7–9 October 2026, Palermo, Italy
1st International Europe-Africa Workshop on Remanufacturing (EuAReman)
The first International Europe-Africa Workshop on Remanufacturing is seeking to highlight the state-of-the-art of remanufacturing in both Europe and Africa. It brings together global North and South experts, researchers and practitioners to explore remanufacturing innovations and collaborations. In the quest for sustainability, Europe lacks raw material resource and thus must determine avenues to maintain its manufacturing base by doing more with less while Africa must industrialise with minimum resource use whilst also reducing its existing manufacturing-related environmental issues. Remanufacturing is a high-impact solution but is under-utilised, forming less than 2% of production in comparison to the 98% of the unsustainable conventional manufacturing.
Emerging technologies can enhance efficiency, capacity and scalability to mainstream remanufacturing. Sustainability is a global concern but efforts to fuse the expertise and needs of the global North and South to obtain viable local and global solutions is lacking. Africa’s involvement has been overlooked, with the continent largely perceived as a bystander and recipient of potential solutions which are detached and unfit. Meanwhile, sustainability is unattainable without effective global cooperation and coordination.
Scope & Audience
Academic and research institutions, industry and persons concerned with the challenges and significance of remanufacturing as a pillar for global sustainability such as, but not limited to:
- Engineers interested in remanufacturing strategy, technique, and technology;
- Business leaders, decision-makers and policymakers, operating within the general reuse and conventional manufacturing environments;
- Researchers interested in the environmental dimensions or implications of remanufacturing;
- Management scholars interested in remanufacturing from the operations perspective (e.g., modelling of reverse supply chains).
