Take-Back Obligation: How DERIX Makes It Work

For DERIX, the take-back obligation is both a commitment to circularity and an economic advantage.

Antonia Görg, Project and Sustainability Manager at DERIX, and Markus Steppler, Managing Director at DERIX, explain how the timber construction company has built a take-back obligation into its contracts.

What you'll hear in this episode:

• How DERIX's take-back obligation works, from the contract to the return of timber elements • How returned timber is assessed, priced and either reused or remanufactured • Why DERIX sees take-back as a future source of timber and plans to use material from other manufacturers as well

The conversation also covers the product data needed to reuse timber in the future, how take-back is connected to carbon credits, and the challenge of building a return system before large volumes of material start coming back.

This is the first episode of our B2B Take-Back series.