Circularity
Reduce, reuse, repurpose, recycle
Turn your waste into your next product
Fab.Pub helps manufacturers turn selected production waste and industrial by-products into new material systems and high-value products.
We work from waste-stream assessment and material development through computational design and large-scale additive manufacturing, creating a route for material already flowing through your business to become something useful again.
Where technically viable, products can be recovered and reprocessed at the end of use, building a measurable circular material loop rather than a one-off recycling story.
From waste stream to product
A circular manufacturing pathway designed around your material, your production constraints and the products your clients actually need.
Step 1
Step 1
Audit the waste stream
Audit the waste stream
Understand the source, composition, consistency, volume and contamination of the material stream.
Understand the source, composition, consistency, volume and contamination of the material stream.
Step 2
Step 2
Develop the material
Develop the material
Shred, compound, formulate and test the material to determine where it can perform reliably.
Shred, compound, formulate and test the material to determine where it can perform reliably.
Step 3
Step 3
Design around it
Design around it
Create products and components around the material's aesthetic, mechanical and manufacturing properties.
Create products and components around the material's aesthetic, mechanical and manufacturing properties.
Step 4
Step 4
Manufacture locally
Manufacture locally
Use digital and large-scale additive manufacturing to produce close to the source of material or demand where practical.
Use digital and large-scale additive manufacturing to produce close to the source of material or demand where practical.
Step 5
Step 5
Recover and reuse
Recover and reuse
Where technically viable, take products back at end of use and recover material for the next production cycle.
Where technically viable, take products back at end of use and recover material for the next production cycle.
Industrial circularity
Your material flows can become a product platform
For manufacturers operating at scale, even a small fraction of a consistent waste stream can represent a substantial material resource. Rather than treating that material only as a disposal problem, we can investigate how it could become feedstock for furniture, interior elements, architectural components, objects or bespoke products for your own clients.
The opportunity is not simply to use recycled content. It is to connect waste, material development, design and manufacturing into one commercial system.
Take-back and reprocessing
For suitable Fab.Pub-produced parts, our Take-Back Scheme provides a route to return products at the end of use. We assess the returned material, process it through our recycling workflow and, where its condition and material specification allow, prepare it for another manufacturing cycle.
What is coming off your production line?
Tell us what the waste stream is, where it comes from and roughly how much you generate. We can help assess whether there is a credible route from waste to material to product.