2. Specificities of R&D applied to the recovery of end-of-life products

For a traditionally-designed product, the functional specifications to be met by the product guide and frame the research work; in this case, the materials and semi-finished products involved in the product's development are precisely selected to meet the expected qualities. On the other hand, when it comes to developing new products from end-of-life materials - ELT in our case - these are the native and imposed point of reflection and of the research and development programs that are carried out.

Because of this particularity, the search for new ways of adding value to ELT is based on two essential elements:

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