Trade fairs and conferences

This year, the 32nd CIRP Conference on Life Cycle Engineering (LCE2025) will take place in Manchester, UK. The conference is a key event in this field and offers its participants a platform to share and deepen their expertise in the field of life cycle engineering and sustainability.

The conference is aimed at scientists, engineers, industry professionals and decision-makers who are addressing the challenges and solutions of life cycle engineering and sustainable production. It will open with keynote speeches by renowned experts, followed by scientific sessions in which participants will present their latest research results.

The main topics of this year's CIRP conference are:

• Absolute sustainability
• Circular economy
• Data for life cycle engineering
• Design for sustainability
• Industry 4.0/5.0 and sustainability
• Life cycle sustainability assessment
• Manufacturing for sustainability
• Materials for sustainability
• Net zero manufacturing
• Net zero transition
• Recycling
• Related business models
• Related policy and regulation
• Remanufacturing
• Water-energy-materials nexus
• Applications (e.g. foundation industries, transport, energy)

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Christoph Herrmann, director of the Fraunhofer IST, will give a keynote speech at the opening of the first day of the conference. On the following day, Svenja Weber-Harmann will present current results in a session on life cycle assessment.

Monday, April 7, 2025, 10:10-10:50 am

All engineers should be life cycle engineers with a mindset for absolute sustainability

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Christoph Herrmann

Tuesday, April 8, 2025, 3:40-3:55 pm

Enhancing Transparency: Reporting data reliability in prospective assessments of emerging battery technologies

Svenja Weber-Harmann