On December 16, 2025, another English-language online meeting from our inspirational lecture series took place under the title ‘Circular Manufacturing and Twin Transition: A Must-Do Step for Global Collaborative Manufacturing’. The webinar was led by Prof. Sergio Terzi from POLIMI – Politecnico di Milano.
Circular manufacturing and twin transition: a must-do step for global collaborative manufacturing
In the global complex world, manufacturing is facing relevant challenges. Like most of the human activities, manufacturing is asked to provide its contribution to the continuous evolution of our modern times, becoming more sustainable (mainly reshaping its linear model to a more circular one) and taking the leap (with all the opportunities and all the risks) of the digital transformation. This double (or twin) transition is in some way mandatory for all the manufacturing “economic actors”, from companies to single operators, from production chains to global services, from geographical territories to countries.
In this presentation, we would like:
1. to give a name to such challenges,
2. to identify some of the paths which manufacturing should / could take,
3. to investigate the intertwined connections of the mutual transitions currently on place (or next to be).
Presenting case studies from the practice as well as some foreground works from the research (mainly from EU research projects), we would then provide our contribution and point of view on the main discussion about the future of manufacturing.
