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1 Toile Industrielle Dunkirk A tool for synergies and territorial development<br />
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Location<br />
Scale<br />
Tag<br />
<strong>City</strong> Port<br />
Delta Region<br />
Platform<br />
Industrial<br />
Symbiosis<br />
base for interaction scheme<br />
delta<br />
company<br />
company<br />
hinterland<br />
company<br />
company<br />
tool document<br />
TOILE<br />
INDUSTRIELLE<br />
industrial port<br />
company<br />
company<br />
city port<br />
company<br />
policy maker/<br />
public actor<br />
company<br />
city<br />
flow of goods flow of knowledge or influence industrial symbiosis other<br />
What’s happening? How does it happen?<br />
Designed in the form of a flow diagram, the Toile<br />
Industrielle® maps the productive ecosystems in the<br />
Flanders-Dunkirk region with the goal of creating industrial<br />
links inside the region and between it and<br />
the neighboring regions. It describes companies by<br />
showing the inputs and outputs, their functional linkages<br />
and the extent of their local roots. This approach<br />
has many advantages: to understand better the interdependencies<br />
at play among companies; to identify<br />
the potential for territorial development; and to anticipate<br />
the impacts of changes on economic markets.<br />
“By connecting companies to each other, it is possible<br />
to avoid impairment losses, optimize the process<br />
of industries already established, reduce their<br />
costs and ensure their sustainability.” Jean-François<br />
Vereecke, general director of AGUR.<br />
Why is this an interesting circular initiative for<br />
circular harbours?<br />
“Why does this company, based on our territory, work<br />
with the ports of Antwerp and Rotterdam - represented<br />
on the web - and not with Dunkirk?” For AGUR<br />
(Urban Planning and Development Agency of the<br />
Flanders-Dunkirk Region) this is the kind of question<br />
that should be asked when analyzing the productive<br />
ecosystems. The Toile Industrielle® helps indeed the<br />
decision-making process by simulating the foreseeable<br />
impacts that some decisions would inflict upon<br />
the territory. The Toile Industrielle® is used to look for<br />
new circular economy opportunities. In particular, it<br />
served as a basis for reflections on the use of iron<br />
and steel residues.According to the development<br />
agency, “it is the ideal tool to present the industrial<br />
ecosystem and the potential prospects of circular<br />
economy in the Dunkirk region”. It is therefore mobilized<br />
during meetings with economic partners likely<br />
to invest locally.
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