PARENT SESSION
82 - Life-Cycle Management and Decision Making
8:00 AM to 6:30 PM, Wednesday, 15 May 2002
Exhibition Area

(82-15) Integrated Scenario Analysis of Metal COATing (ISACOAT).

Geldermann, Jutta^*,1, Schollenberger, Hannes¹, Wenzel, Stefan¹, Rentz, Otto¹, ¹ DFIU / IFARE, Karlsruhe, Germany

ABSTRACT- The sector of paint application has still a substantial share in total VOC-emissions, although new paint products and technologies have already been developed. Especially small and medium sized enterprises (SME) in the metal coating sector encounter difficulties to meet the enforced requirements. Since the sector forms a substantial part of the supply chain of multinational enterprises, SME in all European Countries and Associated States are affected. Within an integrated scenario analysis, possible future scenarios in industrial engineering and in the coating sector are investigated in close co-operation with paint producers, SME in the sector of metal coating and research institutions from all over Europe: Different types of scenarios (enforced high tech, industry parks, vertical and horizontal sector integration) representing a range of possible future states (covering terms of 10 and of up to 20 years) for the metal coating sector will be developed. The envisaged scenarios help to explore future structural changes in organisation and functioning of the sector caused by new environmentally friendly products and techniques. As a result, sectoral strategic planning can be improved, taking into account environmental, technical and socio-economic aspects along the complete supply chain and life cycle. In this context, existing assessment tools (like Life Cycle Assessment or Substance Flow Analysis) are being used and further developed. The different scenarios are being compared by multi-criteria decision making tools.

Key words: VOC (Volatile Organic Compounds), SME (Small and Medium sized Enterprises), LCA (Life Cycle Assessment), MCDM (Multi Criteria Decision Making)