2025 Onsite Content Agenda Sessions

Sustainability: The Use Phase (high energy performance)

• Applications / sectors where customers already ask for higher efficiency than current regulations
• Technologies used and in development for the very high 
efficiency segment/applications (fixed vs variable speed 
uses)
• Debate: Should the upcoming regulation revise upwards the minimum energy performance requirements for motors? 
Which power segments?
 

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Sustainability: The Manufacturing Phase (low-carbon materials and processes)

Low emissions in manufacturing
• Scope 3: supply of sustainable, low-carbon raw materials
• Recycling manufacturing scrap
• Recycled content: what is feasible and what advantage it 
brings
 

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Sustainability: Maintenance, Repair, and the End-of -Life Phase (life extension and looping material

How can the life of a motor be extended (innovation in 
maintenance, repairs…)? In which cases is it usually made? Is 
there an opportunity for improvement in this field, to reach 
new motor classes and sizes?
• What happens to motors when they come to the end-of-life? Different treatments depending on their size.
• Which business models could be developed to improve the 
circularity with full recovery and minimal downcycling of materials?
 

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Wrap-up. Tentative messages for presentation and debate in the public panel on the 4th June

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Workshop Outcome Highlights: Shaping Motors for a Zero Carbon Economy. Accelerating Sustainability

This session will present the topline conclusions of the multi-faceted approach to sustainability in the motor industry discussed on the Workshop “Shaping Motors for a Zero Carbon Economy”.

It will cover the key regulatory developments shaping energy performance, the use of low-carbon materials in manufacturing, and strategies for extending motor life through repair and recycling. With contributions from motor manufacturers, suppliers the panel will debate the next steps toward achieving high-efficiency motors and a circular economy

• EU Policy Context: Overview of Ecodesign regulation, Fit for 55, and critical raw materials assessment, and their implications for the motor sector.
• Energy Performance: How ongoing regulation revisions may raise minimum efficiency requirements, and applications already demanding higher efficiency than current regulations.
• Sustainable Manufacturing: The shift to low-carbon materials, supply chain sustainability, and the recycling of manufacturing scrap to reduce environmental impact.
• End-of-Life & Circular Economy: Strategies to extend motor life through maintenance, repair, and innovative business models for recycling and reusing materials at the end-of-life phase.

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