News: Tire Recycling & Pyrolysis

Contec S.A. – a Poland-based company that specializes in producing sustainable raw materials by upcycling end-of-life tires – reports that its team has visited Contec’s partner, TRS - Tyre Recycling Solutions SA – an innovative tire recycling company from Switzerland. During the visit, the companies have signed the Joint Development Agreement.

The renowned in the tire recycling industry British magazine Tyre & Rubber Recycling, its Chief Editor Ewan Scott and a correspondent Richard Wilson, run a podcast exposing interesting topics and announcing updates to the tire recycling and pyrolysis industries. In the Tyre Recycling Podcast, Ewan Scott interviews key players from the tire recycling and pyrolysis industry from around the world. Make sure to subscribe for Tyre & Rubber Recycling magazine to receive updates about its interviews! On Episode 55, Dr. Mehran Zarrebini, CEO of The Mathe Group, will provide his insights on the current situation of sustainable manufacturing and the crumb rubber market in South Africa. In the interview, he will discuss some key issues, such as the logistical problems in South Africa, the international regulations, and the impact of the war in Ukraine on prices.

Tyre Stewardship Australia (TSA) encourages tyre recyclers in Victoria to apply for Manufacturing Growth Program. Small and medium-sized manufacturers play a key role in helping Australia realise a more circular economy. Program overview

Emissions Analytics – an independent global testing and data specialist for real-world emissions – is delighted to announce the launch of two new conferences next year to focus on the key challenges facing the tyre industry in terms of emissions and sustainability: • Tyre Emissions & Sustainability Europe, Prague, 28 - 29 February 2024 • Tyre Emissions & Sustainability USA, Irvine, California, 24 - 25 April 2024

Tyre Stewardship Australia (TSA) has released its tyre recovery data for 2022-2023, and things don’t look good. Alarmingly, Australia’s recovery of used car, bus and truck (automotive) tyres is going backwards, having dropped to under 80%, a sharp downward trend since the 2019-2020 peak of 90%.

Global leading tire company Hankook Tire & Technology (Hankook Tire) hosted the official kick-off meeting for the ’Tire-to-Tire Circular Economy Model’ consortium on November 1 in Daejeon, South Korea. Held at the Hankook Technodome, the event marked the start of the consortium’s efforts to create the business model for the circular economy of end-of-life tires in Korea.

The CEOs of 10 leading tire manufacturers gathered to confirm a two-year Tire Industry Project (TIP) workplan focused on research and action for sustainability in the tire lifecycle, including tire-emission research and end-of-life tire management. TIP’s workplan for 2024 and 2025 builds on its established program of scientific research with enhanced action and stakeholder engagement across projects relevant to environmental, social and governance (ESG) in the tire sector.

Pyrum Innovations AG (Pyrum) together with the recycling company REMONDIS have announced the starting signal for planning a Pyrum plant for recycling used tires. A letter of intent was recently signed for this purpose. The plant will be located on a site owned by Weserport in Bremen, a subsidiary of REMONDIS sister company Rhenus. It will have a recycling capacity of 20,000 tons of old tires per year, from which the raw material carbon black will be recovered.

Scandinavian Enviro Systems (publ) has appointed Christian Bergaust as the new interim CFO. Bergaust comes most recently from the role of CFO at Alelion Energy Systems and previous assignments include that of CFO at listed Elos Medtech AB. Christian Bergaust took office on November 13 and will work in parallel with the current CFO Staffan Kullberg until he leaves in connection with the report for the third quarter on November 23 in accordance with what was previously announced.