News: Tire Recycling & Pyrolysis

It was agreed during the BVSe annual general meeting in September 2021 to form a Tire Recycling Association under the BVSe grouping. With Vice President and Chairman of the Association, Bernd Franken, committed to the industry's interests, this new professional association has a seat and a vote on the BVSe Committee.

On December 10, 2021, New Energy was the only commercially active company worldwide that was certified by ISCC PLUS as a "Point of Origin" and greenhouse gas savings for chemical recycling of both tire and plastics.

Enviro has had a previous conditional loan totalling EUR 32,000 converted to a grant without a repayment requirement as a result of the tangible measures the company has taken to establish a recycling plant in Chile. The loan was issued by the Nordic Environment Finance Corporation (NEFCO)

In its latest press release, Pyrum Innovations AG (Pyrum), a pioneer in the sustainable recycling of end-of-life tires based on its patented pyrolysis technology, reports on the progress of the European BlackCycle project.

Wastefront, a Norwegian waste tire recycling company, has named Technip Energies as its engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) partner for a £100 million (US$135.5 million) tire recycling plant in Sunderland, England

After a rigorous process and careful planning, Bolder Industries – an American tire pyrolysis operator fo-cused on recovered carbon black (rCB) has announced its new address in Europe. With canal, deep water, rail and motorway access the Port of Antwerp now provides sustainable and economically attractive de-livery options for Bolder’s global customer base.

The Tire Export Ban took effect on December 1, 2021, and Australia now faces a challenge: what to do with the 70,000 tons of whole and baled tires it used to export each year.

End-of-life tires (ELT) are a valuable resource for the circular economy. Of course, natural rubber is important, but it only makes up roughly a fifth of a passenger vehicle's tire. Synthetic polymers, steel, and textiles all play a role in the process.

The Indian government released a draft document in January 2022 that includes recycling rates for the years 2022-23. It affects businesses that engaged in “any activity of production/manufacturing of new tires, import of new/waste tires and recycling of waste tires”.