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According to Budapest Business Journal, Hungary's Hot & Cold Therm (HCT), a company engaging in planning and installation of technical building systems, has developed machinery that uses high-pressure water jet technology to recycle end-of-life tires. The Journal quotes Hungarian state news wire MTI as the source of the information. HCT said the €1 million project was partly supported by the European Union grant. According to the Journal, HCT’s managing director Zoltán Benkő told MTI that the company, based in Tiszalök (184 km northeast of Budapest), has set up a pilot plant that can turn out up to 500 tons of granulate from recycled tires a year. The process, which involves the recovery of end-of-life tire rubber, is completed at room temperature in a closed, circular process, he added.

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This article is a review by Claus Lamer, a Co-Founder at Carbon Recovery GmbH. Weibold’s Academy article series discusses periodically the practical developments and scientific research findings in the end-of-life tire (ELT) recycling and pyrolysis industry. One of the goals is to give entrepreneurs in this industry, project initiators, investors and also the public, a better insight into a rapidly growing circular economy. At the same time, this article series should also be a stimulus for discussion.

This month, Karl Kurz – the person who established the company and brought it to success, retired from the company. Spending 65 years in the industry, Karl Kurz built a company which is one of the most recognized tire casing and tire recyclers in Germany.

Over 240 professionals from all over the world attended ELDAN’s product presentation "Making Lives Easier for Tire Recyclers – the Secret Behind ELDAN’s Success" on April 14, 2021! The high participation shows that the tire recycling industry is concerned about the value of their tire recycling equipment and may be moving towards investment into a tire recycling technology.

Genan – one of the largest end-of-life tire recycling companies in the world – announced that in March 2021 Thomas Ballegaard had joined the company’s team as Genan Group’s new CCO. Since March 1, 2021, Thomas has taken on the overall responsibility for European Sales as well as for global marketing and product management. Having worked as CCO for STARCO for 4 years from 2015 to 2019, Thomas has direct experience in the tire business – as well as with the responsibilities that come with the title as Chief Commercial Officer.

Qatar’s daily newspaper The Peninsula reports that as the Ministry of Municipality and Environment of Qatar (MME) is set to organize the 1st International Waste Management Conference, Qatar is making steady progress in recycling waste, including end-of-life tires, to achieve its environment protection goals. According to the newspaper, in 2020 alone, 434,000 tons of construction materials were produced by recycling construction waste. According to information shared by the MME on its official social media accounts, 482,402 tires were also processed in 2020.

On April 1, a global investment firm The Carlyle Group (NASDAQ: CG) announced that it has agreed to sell Liberty Tire Recycling (Liberty) to ECP, an investor with a decades-long reputation in the environmental and sustainable solutions sector. The transaction is subject to customary closing conditions and is expected to close in the second quarter of 2021. Liberty Tire Recycling is a premier provider of tire recycling services in North America. With a network of more than 25 processing plants and flexible collection service offerings nationwide, the Company saves more than 190 million tires per year from the waste stream, recycling approximately three billion pounds of rubber for innovative, sustainable materials and products.

Eagle International – a renowned manufacturer of tire cutting and tire recycling equipment – has been working with various tire recyclers in the U.S. and Canada to improve the way tires are reduced and recycled. The Nebraska-based manufacturer makes tire shears, derimmers, bead removers, and sidewall cutters to handle small ATV tires up to giant OTR tires. Eagle International has developed a new machine in their portable OTR downsizing equipment line: The Punch Cutter III.