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The Recircle Awards recently unveiled the awards categories for the 2021 ceremony and the platform is urging innovators and circular economy contributors to apply! Tire recycling and pyrolysis companies who are making an impact have a unique chance to apply! For the inaugural Recircle Awards, the organization is looking to recognise and celebrate the best of the best across the tire retreading and recycling sectors far and wide. Remember that you can only submit one nomination for each award category, so use the nominations form wisely to make your mark! https://recircleawards.com/nomination/

In Continental’s recent press release, the tire manufacturer made a very positive announcement related to sustainability. Now that Claus Petschick heads new Sustainability department, sustainable management is expected to become an integral part of Continental’s “Vision 2030” strategy program. Besides, the company will continue engaging in consistent research and development of new technologies, alternative materials and environmentally friendly production processes in the tire sector.

SLTC – The Latin American Society of Rubber Technology (The Sociedad Latinoamericana de Tecnología del Caucho) – recently proudly announced the launch of their new Recycling Committee. SLTC highlighted its organizational scheme and general objectives, which we describe below. According to the SLTC, the Recycling Committee was born out of the need to find a place where all stakeholders related to tire recycling in Latin America can actively interact to enrich and develop the industry.

Kal Tire’s new carbon calculator quantifies environmental savings when retreading tires. The company recently announced the certification of its new carbon calculator that is able to determine fuel and carbon emissions saved by retreading earthmover tires compared to buying new. With that, the company is launching its Maple Program, which quantifies a customer’s environmental impact as they grow their fleet with tire retreads.

Grupo Soledad, a parent company of the Spanish tire retreading firm Insa Turbo, has grown in the last years and shown some great results in circular economy advancement. It produces tire retreads at Insa Turbo’s retread manufacturing plant at Aspe that actually has expanded and now serves not only as a facility where retreads are made. The Group has its tire retreading plant — annually, the plant turns back to life some 200,000 tires of various types and makes OTR retreads. The corporation also looks for the ways to boost retread sale. For instance, Grupo Soledad tries to do so by teaming up with Continental that sends all its casing to the group’s site at Aspe, so the two can produce quality retreads.

Сhina is set to create new firms that will recycle scrap tires as the Asian country is facing the threatening problem of end-of-life tire accumulations; over 300 million waste tires have been accumulated by the country. China will also look for the ways to reuse the tires, according to the industry ministry that revealed its plans in draft guidelines.

This September, Robert Weibold attended the First International Cooperation Summit on Tire and Rubber Recycling in Kunshan, China, on 16 and 17 September 2019. The event gathered industry participants from all over China, as well as from the European Union, the United States and other countries. Proclaimed by Zhu Jun, the president of China’s Tire Recycling Association (CTRA), the motto of the summit was “Environment first, Resources second; no mercy to polluting technologies”. As he and many other speakers asserted, China had gone a huge transformation in the tire recycling industry over the last 10 years.

As a consulting support service for international clients Weibold is capable of of evaluating tire recycling and pyrolysis equipment manufacturers and their technologies on a regular basis. It is our business to connect quality suppliers who feature efficient and innovative technologies with recycling and pyrolysis operators striving to improve their results on a global basis.

On September 15-17, China is going to hold The 32nd Annual Conference of China Tyre Recycling Association and The First International Cooperation Summit on Tire and Rubber Recycling in Kunshan, Jiangsu, China. Robert Weibold is speaking at the event among other renowned international experts invited by China Tyre Recycling Association. In addition to highlighting up-to-date trends in tire recycling and pyrolysis, Robert Weibold will also elaborate on how Europeans see Chinese technology providers for these industries.