GATE C is a circular economy consulting firm

Service offering

Circular economy assessment

We designed a circular framework to help our clients understand how far they are from becoming a circular company. Learn more.

Case study

Circularity in renewable energy

We published a report on the renewable energy sector’s transition to a circular economy model. The report, “A Circular Energy Transition: An Action Plan for Industry, Policymakers and Investors“, was produced for Green Purposes Company, an oversight body of Green Investment Group.

Service offering

Circular strategy

We assist companies in defining and executing a robust circular economy strategy.

Case study

Circular strategy of a railway operator

We formulated the circular economy strategy of one of the leading European rail carriers.

Tool

Circular economy card game

To help our clients design circular solutions, we developed a card game covering the full range of possible circular business models, products and ecosystems. See sample cards.

Service offering

Circular indicators

We assist businesses in evaluating their progress toward achieving circular economy goals.

Case study

Circularity indicators for an industrial manufacturer

For an industrial equipment manufacturer, we defined three circularity indicators from its 2030 strategy, aligned with ESRS E5. They are now calculated and published every year.

Service offering

Circular sourcing

We help purchasing departments to adopt circular sourcing strategies to reduce costs, secure supplies and save resources.

Case study

Circular economy opportunities study for GRDF

For GRDF, we brought together more than 100 suppliers, buyers and prescribers for a day to design more circular equipment. We used our circular cards game to identify new circular opportunities.

Insight

Circular procurement

To improve material efficiency, purchasing departments could leverage circular economy.

Service offering

Circular production

We work with production departments to better capture the value of industrial waste.

Case study

Turning surfactant waste into a resource

We enabled the production site of a global chemical company to reduce waste management costs by 0.5 million euros per year. Using a digital matchmaking platform, we helped our customer find a buyer for its industrial waste.

Case study

Chemical leasing

One of our clients, a consumer-packaged goods manufacturer, used hydrochloric acid for its surface treatment processes, resulting in high acid disposal costs. We identified a low-cost solution to remove impurities from the spent acid and extend its useful life. As a result, our client reduced spent acid disposal costs by 20%.

Service offering

Reverse logistics

We help logistics departments improve their reverse logistics performance.

Service offering

Repair, refurbish and remanufacture

At GATE C, we help industrial operations, aftersales and procurement leaders extend equipment life through repair, refurbishment and remanufacturing.

Case study

Spare parts remanufacturing strategy

For an equipment manufacturer facing competition from low-cost new, used and remanufactured parts sold by independent distributors, we defined a spare parts remanufacturing strategy.

Service offering

Circular sales

We assist sales and marketing departments in selling products more than once.

Case study

Selling refurbished furniture

For a global office furniture manufacturer, we designed a refurbished furniture sales offering.

Service offering

Digital circular economy

We help businesses to fill the information gap to enable the transition toward a circular economy.

The materials industry needs to transition to a circular economy

The materials industry is a major source of CO2 emissions. To reduce these emissions, it needs to transition to a circular economy.

Digitalising material flows

The power of digital technologies to enable the circular economy.

Reverse logistics, the circular economy weakest link

Reverse logistics is sometimes described as the logistics going in the “wrong direction”. Yet it plays an important role to transitioning to a circular economy.

Waste watchers

For factories, applying circular economy strategies could create cost-saving opportunities and profitable new revenue streams.

Toward factories with no assets

Today, many factories are using energy service companies to improve their energy efficiency.
Tomorrow, they will very likely buy pay-per-use services to improve their resource efficiency.

Waste + Information = Resource

To maintain the value of materials and products in the economy for as long as possible, the circular economy needs to have access not only to waste but also to information regarding said waste.

Circular business model

Manufacturers must adopt circular business models to reduce costs, decrease CO2 emissions, and secure critical materials supply.

A €100 billion market

In France, remanufacturing likely accounts for less than 1% of industrial activity. Yet, it creates jobs, reduces production costs, and conserves resources.

The untapped potential of remanufacturing

Remanufacturing not only presents formidable economic, environmental and social challenges, but it could also be twice as profitable as manufacturing.

The machines that predict the future

Thanks to predictive maintenance, products can forecast failures before they occur.

Circular molecules

The circular economy and digitalisation will be the two most important trends employed by Germany’s chemical industry as it moves towards 2030.

Making products last

Thanks to remanufacturing, refurbishing and repair, products are not just consumables anymore, they become assets, our assets.