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ECO Green Equipment – a renowned tire recycling equipment manufacturer from Utah, United States, was recently featured in an article by Hydraulics & Pneumatics magazine. The magazine says that by relying on hydraulic pumps, ECO Green’s unique cracker mill for rubber powder downsizing, Krumbuster, turns end-of-life tires into crumb rubber and super-fine rubber powder with record speed and a smaller environmental footprint. ECO Green Equipment produces turnkey industrial tire recycling solutions to help companies turn end-of-life tires into valuable marketable materials and goods. And as their revolutionary Krumbuster machine shows, they’re doing it in a cheap, fast and environment-friendly way.

Kal Tire – international OTR and mining tire manufacturer was recently nominated for the Recircle Awards in the category “Best Retreading Industry Innovation” for its Carbon Calculator / Maple Program launched in 2020. Kal Tire’s Carbon Calculator quantifies environmental savings when retreading OTR and mining tires that reached their end-of-life stage. The Maple Program uses data from Kal Tire’s new carbon calculator to award customers with one to five stars according to the percentage of their fleet running retreads rather than new tires. The program is first launching in Chile and the UK, with plans to roll out in other regions Kal Tire operates.

Renowned manufacturer of high-end tire recycling equipment ECO Green Equipment makes “short list” for annual awards honoring the world’s leading innovators in tire recycling. A public vote will decide the winners. ECO Green Equipment, a global leader in cost-effective, turnkey industrial tire recycling solutions, is proud to announce that they have been named to the short list of nominees for the prestigious Global Recircle Awards, which honor innovations in the tire recycling industry.

ECO Green Equipment – industrial tire recycling solutions provider and equipment manufacturer – unveils innovative ECO Extractor 63 capable of removing steel beads from 10 mining tires per hour. The Utah-based tire recycling equipment manufacturer is continually exploring new ways to make the tire recycling process more efficient and environmentally friendly. Their products, which range from shredders and grinders to colorizers and control panels, employ the latest technology, as ECO Green reports. Now, ECO Green’s team introduces their newest innovation: the ECO Extractor 63.

The patented Eagle Punch Cutter II is portable and designed to split Off the Road (OTR) tires into two halves, cutting through the center of the tread. It can handle a range of tire sizes, from a rim size of 39 inches and a tread width of 37 inches up to, and including, rim size of 63 inches and tread width of 70 inches. A blade is used to punch the tire while a programmable logic controller (PLC) controls the rotation of the tire and the punching process, allowing the operator to set the machine, press the start button, and let it run.

ECO Green Equipment – one of the world’s leaders in end-of-life tire shredding equipment helps Missouri-based trucking company convert old truck tires into rubber mulch. ECO Green’s recent press release reports that Prime Inc., a Missouri-based trucking company, had been devoted to retreading their used tires. The company discovered that 20% of end-of-life tires couldn’t be retreaded, and those tires — all 100,000 per year — were ending its lifecycle at landfills. With the help of ECO Green Equipment, they’re improving the environment by creating environment-friendly valued-added products and making money while doing it.

ECO Green Equipment – one of the leading end-of-life tire recycling equipment manufacturers and technology suppliers worldwide – has announced updates to its European sales team. Alejandro Grases and Ricardo Ayala recently joined ECO Green Equipment as sales representatives and from now on represent the European branch of the company. About ECO Green’s new sales representatives in Europe Alejandro Grases’ background goes to mechanical engineering. With over 10 years of experience in the tire recycling industry, Alejandro was a tire recycling plant director at American Tire Recycling in the city of Miami from 2011 till 2018. Part of his duty as the tire recycling plant director, Alejandro handled equipment installation and plant design, sometimes altering characteristics of the machinery.

As circular economy concept and tire recycling are becoming more popular all over the world, the first issue that may arise is the need to secure the raw material, namely end-of-life tires (ELT). Normally, tire recycling companies source their feedstock from collection programs or directly from tire stockpiles. Local ELT stockpiles in developing countries eventually may have limited supplies, because if ELT regulations were not in place before, tires may have been simply landfilled or burnt.

According to the manufacturer, the line is capable of coloring up to 10,000 lbs (4,500 kg) of input material per hour. ECO Green pinpoints that the line is designed to color a wide range of material sizes from 10-20 mesh rubber granules, to 1-inch chunks and rubber buffings. The manufacturer asserts that this system proves to be by far the most versatile and effective coloring line on the market.