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Tuyển tập báo cáo các nghiên cứu khoa học quốc tế ngành hóa học dành cho các bạn yêu hóa học tham khảo đề tài: Editorial Winifred Ijomah | o Journal of Remanufacturing a SpringerOpen Journal Ijomah Journal of Remanufacturing 2011 1 4 http content 1 1 4 EDITORIAL Open Access Editorial Winifred Ijomah Dear all Welcome to the first issue of the Journal of Remanufacturing. This journal will bring together global knowledge in remanufacturing practice and research from industry and academia as grounding for new technologies to enable the use of remanufacturing in addressing economic competitive environmental and legislative pressures. In the past we manufactured products and disposed of our waste as we wished. Those days are long gone. We are now in a 2nd Industrial revolution requiring combined and equal consideration of economic and environmental needs. Increasingly stringent legislation including rising waste penalties and landfill tax have catapulted environmental issues into the cost equation such that a fourth dimension -environmental performance- has now joined the traditional order winning criteria of lead-time price and quality. This has created globally critic al business opportunities based on reverse logistics. This journal addresses the information needs of these new businesses. We have worked hard to create an exciting fusion and interaction of industry and academia that can only serve to further remanufacturing. This initiative is a huge opportunity for those of us already steeped in remanufacturing research and practice to share knowledge amongst ourselves and to pass on wisdom and experiences to new industry entrants and upcoming researchers. Why is this journal so desperately needed Until now there was no remanufacturing specific academic journal. However a recognized repository of remanufacturing knowledge is important for academics and industrialists alike. Remanufacturing researchers publish in a wide range of journals and have to scope the same range in order to retrieve information. This makes it difficult to undertake research because identifying the