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In spring 2021, recycled rubber flooring goods by North West Rubber (British Columbia, Canada) were rated as "Acceptable for an Operating Room Area" according to a third-party independent cleaning study. According to the results of the third-party testing which highlights the effectiveness of the SportFloor® Stamina line of recycled rubber performance flooring in helping to protect sports complex athletes, visitors, and staff from the risks of microbial contamination. North West Rubber (NWR) commissioned Westech Systems FM Inc. to conduct and report on a third-party independent cleaning audit with the goal of assessing how easy it was to clean and disinfect NWR SportFloor® recycled rubber flooring.

Classic Rubber Flooring – a rubber flooring tiles manufacturer and supplier based in Ahmedabad, India – is expanding its recycling capabilities at its facility in Mehsana, Gujarat. The company specializes in manufacturing flooring for various applications, such as gyms, play areas, swimming pools, and athletic stadiums, using granules derived from waste tires. In the past, they relied on sourcing granules externally or importing them. However, in 2018, they decided to produce their own granules and partnered with Fornnax Technology, a Gujarat-based company specializing in waste tire recycling machinery. Classic Rubber installed a 1.5-ton-per-hour capacity granulator from Fornnax in 2019, followed by a secondary shredder in 2020 to meet their growing needs.

Van Dyck, affiliated with the tire recycler Mathe Group, has achieved Global GreenTag certification for its rubber flooring products, marking a milestone in sustainable manufacturing. The certification is particularly significant given Van Dyck's connection to the tire recycling industry, as the company produces rubber flooring from recycled materials, including those derived from end-of-life tires.

In May 2019, Carbon Craft Design launched its first carbon tile production. The manufacturing of the carbon tiles is a three-step process. First, carbon is collected from tire pyrolysis based factories, which is then processed at a facility and finally converted into tiles at a manufacturing unit located in Morbi, Gujarat. The entire process of making these tiles consumes one-fifth of the energy required to make vitrified tiles and reduces air pollution by 30,000 liters of carbon for each tile made.

According to Recycling Today media, Ecore International, based in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, is set to receive $10 million in Federal New Markets Tax Credit allocation from UB Community Development LLC (UBCD), a community development subsidiary of United Bancorporation of Alabama. This funding will support Ecore's tire recycling facility in Ozark, Alabama, where end-of-life truck tires will be recycled to produce flooring and surfacing products.

The Flooring Connection (Pty) Ltd is a distributor of sub-floor, flooring solutions, to the construction and flooring industries based in South Africa. The company’s COO Jonathan Bodley interviewed Dr. Mehran Zarrebini – CEO of PFE International Inc., a proven strategic leader and CEO in the technology and circular economy space with over 15 years of experience leading disruptive startups – to learn all about the benefits, challenges and opportunities for recycled tires and rubber crumb in South Africa.

U.S. Rubber Recycling Inc., an American-based tire recycling business that converts end-of-life truck tires into rubber flooring and sound-reducing panels, reports that it boosted its sales by 40% in 2020 – during the global pandemic of Covid-19. The company plans to hire another 20 workers this year and is looking for a bigger manufacturing space of 100,000 to 150,000 square feet. (Photo courtesy of U.S. Rubber Recycling Inc.) Orange County Register reports that U.S. Rubber Recycling CEO, Jeff Baldassari, attributes the company’s 2020 sales increase to a few factors: “People changed their buying behavior in 2020 because of the virus,” he says. “They weren’t going to stores as much, but online sales went up. We’ve had a longtime partnership with Rubber Flooring, which sells rubber mats and flooring, and their sales exploded because of online buying.”

Mathe Group, a South African company that recycles radial truck tires, has obtained a new Waste Management License for its new tire recycling facility worth over R65 million. The facility will complement its successful existing operation. Dr. Mehran Zarrebini, CEO of Mathe Group and its sister company Van Dyck, reveals ongoing negotiations with a potential investor, with the final investment amount contingent on the technology chosen. Simultaneously, Mathe Group is expanding its current facility, set to be operational in August. This expansion will boost their rubber crumb output from 25-30 tons to 45 tons and increase tire recycling from 700 radial truck tires daily to approximately 1,000 per day.

Pennsylvania-based rubber flooring manufacturer Ecore International plans to invest $25.5 million to open a regional manufacturing facility in Ozark, Alabama, where it will create 84 jobs. Ecore specializes in transforming reclaimed materials into high-performance flooring and surface products. The privately held company based in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, is the largest converter of reclaimed rubber in North America, and its largest raw material is scrap truck tires.