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  • Publication
    Study on sustainability developments in industrial practice
    ( 2018)
    Lindow, Kai
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    Kaluza, Andrea
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    Stark, Rainer
    Traditionally, manufacturing companies focus on the value-adding processes at production sites but during the last decades, life-cycle thinking is emphasized. The principle of Sustainable Development contributes as a significant driver for this way of thinking. It demands manufacturing companies to implement sustainable aspects into their engineering actions. The state of the art shows that theoretical solutions to integrate sustainability into a company exist at all corporate levels (normative, strategic and operational). Against this background, the question arises how companies are actually implementing sustainability. Within this study, the company's internal implementations were examined. Eventually, the need for action is identified and future recommendations are described.
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    Investigating challenges of a sustainable use of marine mineral resources
    ( 2018)
    Kaluza, Andrea
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    Lindow, Kai
    ;
    Stark, Rainer
    High-tech products as well as renewable energy systems require ever-increasing quantities and more different metals. The extraction of metals and industrial minerals for the production of consumer goods and machines take place almost exclusively on land now. However, the interest in marine mineral resources has been re-inflamed due to the problem of geopolitical availability, such as fragile or failed raw material states and oligopolistic structures among the producers. This article gives a brief outline of the political, social and economic context of this change in interest in marine mineral raw materials extraction.