NOVAMONT has recently developed two dielectric fluids for oil filled transformers, applying a completely new approach in the selection and synthesis of new raw materials, their refining and composition.
The dominant economic model of the final decades of the 20th century and the first decade of the 21st century was a linear model, inherently dissipative and degenerative, in which raw materials, coming mainly from nonrenewable sources, were exploited to create industrial products that at the end of their service life are often thrown away.
While this industrial model brought technical and economic achievements, it created an economy based on the continuous depletion of soil and natural resources. Such an increasingly globalized economy, with increasingly short-term objectives, is growing faster and faster and will not be sustainable long term as it aims solely to secure a profit, to the detriment of the quality of life and of natural capital.
It is time to think about the products in a different way. It is necessary to conceive products in a circular economy system where they are designed to represent a solution during their use and not a problem when their service life comes to an end. Conversely, they can become a resource, a raw material useful to be introduced again in the value chain, in a circular bioeconomy perspective.
To establish this new system, technical challenges are even harder, but a new perspective is possible.
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