The GEAR-UP proposal, is a comprehensive initiative to revolutionize the manufacturing sector through sustainable practices and advanced technologies. The project's central objective is to develop digital tools and methodologies that address recycled materials variability. It covers stainless steel, aluminum alloys, and fiber-reinforced plastics for additive manufacturing (AM). It employs simulation-driven approaches for optimizing various AM processes, including laser beam-directed energy deposition, metal laser beam powder bed fusion, and fiber-reinforced polymer material extrusion. GEAR-UP also emphasizes environmental conservation by using recycled materials in engineering design, significantly reducing virgin resources, energy consumption, and greenhouse gas emissions. The project intends to overcome challenges associated with secondary materials, such as performance variability, through resilient design and life-cycle environmental impact assessment. Moreover, the proposal outlines ambitious objectives for enhancing sustainable product design using innovative simulation and modeling software. It also implements the Digital Product Passport initiative and fosters human involvement in advancing circularity and sustainable technology adoption. This is done through training and global collaborative networks. GEAR-UP's approach represents a paradigm shift in engineering design, focusing on the circular value chain and developing universally adaptable AM technologies resilient to material variability. This endeavor is expected to directly impact the high-performance consumer products, green energy, & high-tech robotics markets. The key outcomes are: Cost savings: 25 % Increased productivity: 20-50 % Extended fatigue life: 50-80 % Defects reduced: 50-80 % Material waste reduced: 25-30 % CO2 emissions reduced: 25-50 % Reduced quality failures: 70-90 % Reduced design time: 20-50 % Reduced component weight: 25-30%

Remanufacturing is critical for Circular Economies, extending product life, creating jobs and revenue streams, and reducing waste, energy consumption, and greenhouse gas emissions. The main challenges that need to be addressed for successful remanufacturing in an industrial value chain or, more appropriately, value cycle are related to process, design, and business models. To meet these challenges, RESTORE will offer sustainable by design remanufacturing process and materials along with supporting tools for digitalization of remanufacturing ecosystem or value chain. RESTORE is aiming to advance potential SoA cladding technologies including laser direct energy deposition, plasma transfer arc process for sustainable remanufacturing application. To increase the deposition rate for large scale applications, we are aiming to develop a novel hybrid process combining laser and PTA process. We are aiming to manufacture wire feedstock with recycled content and develop a wire feeding system coupled with auxiliary feeding system to transfer machining swarf/unused powder directly into the melt pool, this will pave the way to zero waste and low-cost remanufacturing technology. For digitalization, we are also aiming to develop RESTORE platform, which will offer digital technologies and tools, which are digital technologies to increase process automation, recipe book and simulation tools for product and process optimisation, decision support framework, ecoDESIGN framework, blockchain enabled digital product passport, digital marketplace, business model templates, and collaborative spaces that can help to facilitate and streamline the remanufacturing process, providing greater traceability, transparency, and efficiency. The digital collaborative space will bring all relevant actors of the remanufacturing domain under one umbrella to share data and leverage a decision support framework and supporting tool, guiding the optimal remanufacturing of industrial products and components.