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Audi plans to recycle faulty car windows into new Q4 e-tron glass

Panisa Aemocha by Panisa Aemocha
27th April 2022
in Cars, Consumer Vehicles, Environment, News
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Audi has launched a one-year pilot project to recycle faulty car windows with three partner companies, including Reiling Glas Recycling, Saint-Gobain Glass, and Saint-Gobain Sekurit.

The German automotive manufacturer aims to use the recycled windows in its new model Audi Q4 e-tron series in the future if the pilot project is successful. This endeavour is part of Audi’s circular economy strategy, where the company aims to improve its product life cycle.

Head of Procurement Strategy Marco Phillippi said they want to adopt a new model using melted glass from old vehicles to produce new plate glass for their upcoming Audi Q4 e-tron fleet.

He said: “Our goal is to use secondary materials everywhere it is technically possible and economically reasonable to do so. We’re working on introducing materials we have direct access to into closed circuits.”

According to McKinsey’s sustainability analysis on zero-carbon car models, the automotive industry has been focused on reducing tailpipe emissions. However, the report urges automakers not to neglect the importance of lowering material production emissions.

A pane cracked like this has to be replaced.
Reiling Glas Recycling sorts out non-glass materials.
The glass granulate is melted down.
Delivery of the glass recyclate at Saint Gobain Glass.
Delivery of the glass recyclate at Saint Gobain Glass.
The glass granulate is melted down.
Saint Gobain Glass produces new plate glass from the recyclate.
Saint Gobain Glass produces new plate glass from the recyclate.
Saint Gobain Glass produces new plate glass from the recyclate.
The plate glass is processed into new automotive glass.
Saint Gobain Glass produces new plate glass from the recyclate.
New windshields for the Audi Q4 e-tron.
Damaged windowpanes are handed over to Reiling Glas Recycling.
Car glass is initially shredded and processed.
Car glass is initially shredded and processed.
The granulate is stored homogeneously separated.
Foreign materials such as PVB layers are collected for further recycling. Pictured: Dean Steinberg (deputy plant manager, left) and Daniel Rottwinkel (plant manager, right).
New windshields for the Audi Q4 e-tron.

The report showed that, by 2040, the emissions from material production could reach 60 per cent of life-cycle emissions, a higher share than tailpipe emissions.

For Audi, recycling damaged glass means the company could use less energy and raw material such as quartz sand to produce windows for its new models. The German carmaker said that the recycling process would produce 30% less carbon dioxide than manufacturing new glass, preserving the high-grade glass quality.

The pilot project will commence in three steps. Initially, Audi planned to partner with the glass processor Reiling Glas Recycling to break down damaged windows into small pieces and remove all possible waste materials.

Saint-Gobain Glass will then turn the processed material into plate glass. Then the company will mix the recyclate with other fundamental components of glass – quartz sand, sodium carbonate, and chalk.

Dr Markus Obdenbusch, production manager in charge of the Saint-Gobain float at the Herzogenrath site, said that the pilot project aims to use about 40 tons of recycled car glass.

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