News: Tire Recycling & Pyrolysis

Gradeall International – a renowned supplier of tyre bailing and tyre recycling technology from Northern Ireland – reports that its MK2 tyre baler has been a successful product for the company and its clients. In production for over 10 years, the MK2 tyre baler has found customers across the globe. However, one thing some customers have found during the baling process is that regular PAS108 tyre bales are slow and laborious to load into a shipping container. While PAS108 bales are great for civil engineering applications the usage bales for construction has been rather limited bringing into question the need to produce bales to that specific size.

To build a successful tire recycling or pyrolysis business, one needs to first of all identify markets and products and properly build sales channels. This is a rather complex task, as it is composed of many difficult and field-specific details.Nowadays one may think of the Internet as a pioneering marketing tool to help sell products. Partly this is true, as there are many platforms for retailing or wholesaling across the entire world. But despite the ease of launching online sales, feasibility needs to be carefully calculated before you start recycling tires.

Scandinavian Enviro Systems – Swedish tire pyrolysis equipment supplier and operator – has issued an interim report pinpointing the company is well-positioned to meet the increased interest in tire pyrolysis oil. Below we cite short facts from the report highlighted by Enviro. Q3 2020 • Net revenues for the period were million SEK 0.2 (EUR 19700) • Earnings after tax for the period were million SEK -12.7 (EUR -1.25 million)

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Versalis, a chemical company owned by Eni, and one of the world’s leaders in the production and marketing of elastomers has signed an agreement with AGR, a company that owns technology for the devulcanization of post-consumer elastomers. Together, Versalis and AGR are going to develop technological innovations and new products and applications from recycled end-of-life tire rubber. Devulcanization is process of selectively breaking chemical bonds that transforms objects in solid rubber, usually granulated, into a workable and moldable form, ready to be reused in the production of new products, such as tires or gaskets.

KURZ Karkassenhandel GmbH – a tire recycling company from Germany – has been committed to environmentally friendly and responsible waste tire disposal for years. Till this November, the tire recycler had been accepting only large quantities of end-of-life tires. With its new online inquiry tool, one can now ask KURZ to pick up scrap tires at individual demand. The service not only allows emptying the garage space, but also implies environment-friendly and clean recycling of waste tires. Around 65 million end-of-life tires are generated in Germany every year. This can be imagined as an indeed huge pile, but the tires can be 100% recycled. End-of-life tires contain valuable raw materials such as rubber, steel and even synthetic textiles. A certified scrap tire disposal company like KURZ Karkassenhandel GmbH ensures that these raw materials remain in the loop and thus the environment protected.

Pyrowave, a pioneer in the electrification of chemical processes and plastics recycling, and Michelin – one of the leading tire manufacturers worldwide – agree to industrialize an innovative plastic waste recycling technology. • Michelin Group and the Canadian firm Pyrowave join forces to accelerate time-to-market for an innovative plastic waste recycling technology. • They agree to fast track the process industrialization. • The purpose of the technology is to increase the rate of sustainable materials not only in Michelin tires, but also in other industries.

Tyre Stewardship Australia (TSA) reports about a landmark project where asphalt made using crumb rubber from used tyres was laid on a busy Melbourne road. The project was co-funded by Tyre Stewardship Australia and it has won the prestigious Sustainable Transport Infrastructure Award at the National Transport Research Awards. The demonstration project across a 1.4km section of East Boundary Road in Bentleigh East, Victoria is supported by the Australian Road Research Board (ARRB) and the Victorian Department of Transport (DoT).

Business Wire recently reported that Bolder Industries (“Bolder”), a pioneer in converting end-of-life tires into sustainable industrial products such as recovered carbon black (rCB), and Continental Carbon Company (“CCC”), a leader in the development and manufacture of furnace-grade carbon blacks for the tire and rubber industry, announced on November 17 that they have entered into a co-marketing agreement to commercialize breakthrough, sustainable products for the global rubber and plastics industry.