Building on the success of its existing buyback programme, the metal-cutting company Sandvik Coromant — together with the wider Sandvik Group — has launched an upgraded tool recycling scheme that has been structured make the process of repurposing worn carbide easier for customers, and thereby help boost material circularity throughout the supply chain. In 1997, Sandvik acquired Wolfram Bergbau und Hütten — a leading tungsten powder and tungsten carbide producer — and launched a buyback scheme to recycle carbide material through the division that is used by Sandvik Coromant to this day; and since then, the programme has become a core part of Sandvik Coromant's production cycle. With the scheme, customers can sell their worn out tools to Sandvik Coromant, so the materials can be extracted and reused in the production of new cutting tools. Moreover, carbide tools from all manufacturers are accepted into the company's recycling programme.