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This year, Weibold is again proud to be a media partner of the Recovered Carbon Black 2020 organized by Smithers. We are inviting all interested parties to register for the event with the 10% discount from Weibold! Use our promo code “RCB20WD” in the end of your registration for the Forum.

On September 2-4, 2020, Weibold's tyre recycling and pyrolysis consulting team will attend the 27th ETRA Conference on Tyre Recycling in Brussels. Weibold welcomes attendees to arrange meetings during the conference. To arrange a meeting with Louis Selinger Romero from Weibold's expert team, please send your inquiry at louis@weibold.com or call +34 664 766 988.

Funds provided by Tyre Stewardship Australia (TSA) will help at least six councils in South Australia commence trials using crumb rubber recycled from scrap tires for asphalt projects. The trials are considered the biggest of its kind in the country, according to TSA CEO Lina Goodman. The move to use recycled rubber is seen as an opportunity to advance circular economy in the state. Roads that rely on recycled tires will serve as alternative to conventional asphalt.

More than a hundred of professionals working in supply chain operation specializing in scrap tire recycling, transport and storage gathered in Rome last year for the Ecopneus Convention. At the same time, businesses that use recycled rubber in sports field production and apply scrap tires to fuel cement plants participated in the event. The organizers of the convention shed light on the issue of quality of the supply chain and products.

Italy’s Olbia handled an environmental problem that posed danger to the environment and human health as over 900 tons of abandoned scrap tires were collected from an industrial area. This became possible thanks to funding and joint efforts of the Municipality of Olbia and a non-for-profit scrap tire managing organization Ecopneus. Additionally, Ecoservice of S.Antonio di Gallura helped the tire removal process. The company serves as Ecopneus’ partner specializing in collection and transportation of scrap tires in the provinces of Sassari, Oristano and Nuoro in Italy.

On November 28, 2019, Robert Weibold gave a speech at Rubcycle conference in Belgium, dedicated to issues of end-of-life tire recycling and pyrolysis. Rubcycle is an inspirational event on circular thinking, sustainable use of materials and field application of rubber crumb as a valuable material. As a part of the conference agenda, Robert Weibold was featured in an interview by Rubcycle where the expert expressed his opinion about current developments and challenges of tire recycling and pyrolysis industry in Europe.

Regardless of meandering political environmental protection trends, most Western companies today are embracing Corporate Environmental Responsibility (CER) as a mandate that is integral to their corporate strategy and forms part of their Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) program. The automobile industry and its subset, the tire industry, is no exception. Consumer awareness represents pressure on corporate governance to continuously improve the environmental footprint throughout the life cycle of their products. Life Cycle Assessments (LCAs) are one way of objectively quantifying and qualifying the effect that material and energy flows of a given product have on our environment, our health, our economies, and the way we live. LCAs also help design the products we and our customers manufacture, compare them to competitive solutions, and enhance their perception in the market. If performed properly, the investments that LCAs require can therefore ultimately translate into improved profit margins. This article examines the difficulties we encounter and gains we can realize when performing an LCA on an End Of Life Tire (ELT) derived product.

Today, fast-paced technology advances in IoT and digitalization have been affecting almost all industries. One might think that tire recycling and pyrolysis industries are far beyond the scope of this trend. Yet, quite the opposite is happening. Below, we will explain how tire recycling and pyrolysis plant operators will be embracing effects of advancing tire manufacturing technologies.

Italian startup Rubber Conversion specialized in tire rubber devulcanization took late last month the most prestigious prize at the Keynes Sraffa Award at Church House Conference Centre in Westminster, London. The prize was awarded to the business’s developer and brand manager Cveta Majtanovic who is a double-degree PhD candidate in Computer Science at the University of Trento. Rubber Conversion is the Italian business that relies on its patented rubber devulcanisation system handling rubber waste. The authoritative bodies have dubbed this technology the most innovative solution to scrap tire rubber materials reuse by means of devulcanization. Rubber Conversion operates as a spin-off from Innovando Srl, a waste managing company that handles more than 60,000 tons of waste each year.