News: Tire Recycling & Pyrolysis

Sharing the same vision of implementing circularity within the rubber and tire manufacturing industry, Tyre Recycling Solutions (TRS) announced a partnership with Contec, promoting their products and technologies as well as joint research and development activities.

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The chemical recycling of end-of-life tires (ELT) via state-of-the-art pyrolysis technologies does not only avoid greenhouse gas emissions compared to today’s conventional production processes, but it also increases the resource efficiency while closing the loop in the transition to a circular economy. However, civil organisations criticise the production of fuel through chemical recycling, sometimes mutilate the terminology, pointing to the associated environmental impacts, while they overlook the fact that modern ELT pyrolysis concepts are not geared towards the production of "fuels" (which, by the way, should not be defined as "recycling" but rather as less preferred "recovery" according to the EU waste hierarchy).

To produce devulcanized rubber with very high-quality standards, EVOREC Rubber Plus (F. lli MARIS S.p.A) – an Italian technology provider for evoluted rubber and plastic recycling solutions and innovator in the field of end-of-life tire rubber devulcanization – has designed and patented a new two-step devulcanization process. The first stage involve devulcanization of the rubber by means of a co-rotating twin-screw extruder – characteristics equivalent to Evorec Rubber. The rubber thus devulcanized will go to feed, by direct connection, the second extruder. The second stage, given by the combination of a single-screw extruder and a screen-changer, offers the possibility of achieving significant advantages:

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If you are thinking about scaling up your tyre baling operations, Gradeall – a tyre baling and tire cutting equipment manufacturer from Northern Ireland – can be a right solution. Gradeall says its MK3 Tyre Baler produces bales 50% larger than standard PAS 108 Tyre Balers. According to the manufacturer, the baler ensures: Average 140 tyres per bale 50% bigger loading chamber 3 bales per hour More efficient storage of tyres Safer/more convenient to load containers

Hernán Di Leo, ELT manager at Prometeon, is quoted in a article in Argentina's Clarin Economica as saying, "I have been in charge of recycling the tires we sell for six months. I initially believed it would be a task, but I became deeply immersed and found a wonderful activity." Prometeon is Argentina's largest distribution network, with over 1,100 people and about 120 points of sale. Although it must be made clear that the procedure only accepts high-quality tires, "the reuse of tires is a crucial to the sustainability of the business," adds Di Leo. And he adds that "a tyre requires at least 250 years to biodegrade," according to estimates. Other supplementary possibilities exist, such as tyre repair through retreading techniques. But even after retreading, a tire's usable life eventually expires. Because of this, Prometeon established its ELT Program, which entails repurposing recycled tire parts into things like playground equipment for kids, artificial turf for soccer fields, and energy sources for businesses in the cement sector.

At the most recent Big Machine Music City Grand Prix in Nashville, Tennessee, Bridgestone unveiled a new IndyCar tire that uses a sidewall composed of natural rubber derived from the guayule desert shrub.

A recent effort to smuggle illegal goods was prevented by Pakistan's Collectorate of Customs Appraisement (West), Federal Board of Revenue (FBR), Karachi. They claimed that the cargo of illegal goods had a value of Rs 453 million.