News: Tire Recycling & Pyrolysis

Fornnax Technology invites you to visit its booth at Tyre & Rubber Indonesia 2025, taking place from 21st to 23rd May at AJIExpo, Jakarta. The company will showcase its high-capacity recycling machines for tyres, municipal solid waste (MSW), e-waste, cables, and aluminium. Discover innovative recycling solutions that exceed industry standards and are engineered to advance sustainability and circular economy objectives.

Scandinavian Enviro Systems (Enviro) and the French tire manufacturer Michelin have initiated a collaboration following successful tests, which means that Enviro will recycle valuable raw materials such as carbon black and oil from Michelin's used racing tires. The recycled carbon black can then be reused by Michelin to produce new racing and other tires. "Racing tires represent the pinnacle of tire technology, and for Enviro to be involved in providing a circular solution for the racing tires of the world's largest tire manufacturer is a mark of quality for what our technology can achieve," says Fredrik Emilson, CEO of Enviro.

On World Recycling Day, Spain’s Tratamiento Neumáticos Usados (TNU) warned that despite 100% of collected end-of-life tires being recycled, the country still lacks a complete circular economy for tires. While Spain excels in collection and treatment, the weak market demand for recycled products and limited green public procurement policies are stalling progress.

On September 16 and 17, 2025, the Alliance for the Future of Tires (AZuR), in cooperation with KRONE, will host the 2nd AZuR Retreading Summit at the KRONE Trailer Forum in Werlte, Germany. This two-day industry event will bring together stakeholders from logistics, the public sector, industry, research, and the retreading sector to discuss practical solutions for sustainable fleets and a closed-loop tire economy.

MARIS has designed and patented a new two-step devulcanization process to produce devulcanized rubber with very high-quality standards. By “devulcanization” we mean a process of selective breaking of the S-S and C-S bonds of the elastomer which causes only a limited degradation of the polymeric structure (C-C bond).

Europe's tyre recycling industry faces a critical challenge: cost-driven decisions often take precedence over environmental responsibility. In many Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) systems, tyres are exported for processing abroad, only to be reimported as recycled materials - a move that has a terrible effect on the EU circular economy, disregarding the loss of valuable resources, the environmental costs of transportation, and CO2 emissions.

The Netherlands and Austria plan to jointly draft a proposal to restrict the use of 6PPD, a chemical used in car tires to extend their lifespan. The initiative follows growing concern over the environmental impact of 6PPD and its transformation product, 6PPD-quinone, which has been shown to be toxic, particularly to salmon species.

Orion S.A. reported first quarter 2025 results showing a decline in revenue and earnings, impacted by lower oil prices, unfavorable exchange rates, and unplanned plant downtime. Net sales fell to $477.7 million (down 5% YoY), and adjusted EBITDA dropped 22% to $66.2 million. While volumes rose in the Rubber Carbon Black segment, Specialty Carbon Black demand softened in the Americas.

NEXEN TIRE, a tire manufacturer headquartered in Yangsan, South Gyeongsang Province and Seoul in South Korea, announced that it has signed a long-term supply agreement with LD Carbon Co., Ltd., a Seoul-based resource circulation and material recycling firm, for recovered carbon black (rCB).