During the session “Deep Dive into Resource Efficiency: Practical Technical Solutions,” specific technical solutions and approaches for increasing resource efficiency in production processes were presented.

Using the practical example “Sustainable Use of Precision Tools—Reconditioning Instead of Manufacturing New Ones,” Dr.-Ing. Heiko Frank, Head of the Hard Coating & Applications Division at GFE Schmalkalden e.V., provided insight into the network’s activities and highlighted opportunities for material savings.

A key lever for sustainable tool use lies in the industrial reconditioning of complete cutting tools. Here, users require process chains that are as simple as possible and can be implemented without additional effort, so that tool use, stripping, regrinding, and reconditioning function smoothly. The presentation at Rekon demonstrated how reconditioning and sustainable tool use function as a scalable solution.