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Circular Showcase

Contract manufacturers manufacture products, right? Well yes, but thanks to their infrastructure, in-house technical expertise, and global reach, they also deliver circular solutions such as asset recovery, repair, and remanufacturing.

Here are five of the largest doing just that:

Flex
📍 Global
🔗 https://flex.com/
Flex integrates circularity into its global manufacturing services, offering repair, refurbishment, resale, and responsible recycling via its GSS division. In 2024, Flex enhanced these capabilities by acquiring FreeFlow, a specialist in asset disposition and B2B remarketing.

Plexus
📍 Global
🔗 https://www.plexus.com/
Plexus offers circular solutions via its Sustaining Services division, extending product lifecycles with repair, refurbishment, remanufacturing, and component reuse. It also ensures serviceability and sustainability are built in at the product design and manufacturing stage.

Celestica
📍 Global
🔗 https://www.celestica.com/
Celestica offers comprehensive circular and reverse logistics services, including returns management, triage, repair, refurbishment, remanufacturing, and recycling. It focuses on designing for sustainability, extending product lifecycles, and harvesting components to reduce raw material demand.

Sanmina
📍 Global
🔗 https://www.sanmina.com/
Sanmina offers a host of circular solutions via its Global Services division, including repair, refurbishment, and recycling. Operating 23 service hubs worldwide, it provides diagnostics, reconditioning, remanufacturing, and component reclamation to extend product lifecycles.

Jabil
📍 Global
🔗 https://www.jabil.com/
Jabil embeds circular economy strategies into its manufacturing and supply chain services, from product and material reuse to lifecycle assessments and Scope 3 emissions reduction. Its 2023 acquisition of Retronix strengthened its ability to recover and refurbish electronic components, enabling high-value reuse and recycling.

Circular Calendar

September is shaping up to be a busy month, with 23 industry events scheduled worldwide. Keep an eye on the Circular Calendar, and hopefully we’ll see you at one of them!

Have a superb week and we’ll see you again on Friday!

Cheers to circularity,

#TeamCircularConnect #ConnectingTheCircularEconomy