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In just 4 days, on March 19 – 21, 2024, Tire Technology Expo Conference will bring together leading industry figures for three days of presentations, discussions and networking on the latest developments in tire manufacturing, scientific advances, sustainability and the global tire business. Robert Weibold – the founder and managing director of Weibold – will attend this year's conference. If you would like to connect with Robert Weibold, discuss business opportunities or request information on consulting services, please send your inquiry at sales@weibold.com.

Scandinavian Enviro Systems (Enviro) – a Swedish tire pyrolysis equipment supplier and operator – says it made a strategic recruitment by employing Fredrik Alpner as the Site Manager for the company’s plant in Åsensbruk and future plant in Uddevalla. Enviro highlights that Alpner has a long-standing background as production manager in the global processing industry and will take up a new role that will contribute to both the continued industrialization and commercialization of Enviro’s leading tire pyrolysis technology and realizing the company’s expansion plan.

Smithers Carbon Black World conference is back in Europe for its 19th year. The event will take place across the 14-15 May 2024 at the Imperial Riding School in Vienna, Austria. The Carbon Black World conference regularly attracts an international delegation of producers, end-users, and equipment solution providers from across the tire, rubber, plastics, compounds and ink industries to make new connections, share strategic insights, and explore future opportunities in the marketplace with key influencers and decision makers from all aspects of the value chain!

Today, many developing countries suffer from poor waste management practices and severe environmental problems. This includes not only insufficient wastewater treatment, dangerous chemicals in soil or solid household waste, but also end-of-life tires (ELTs) which, accumulated at landfills, pose threat to human health. Whereas fraught politics is incapable of designing scrap tire management regulations and establishing collection systems, there are other practices which could help. To affect scrap tire management and recycling on local level, one should come up with solutions tailored to people’s economic behavior and habits, and look at their economic needs. This is where crowdsourcing for ELTs comes into play.

According to a press release by Newsfile Corp., Environmental Waste International Inc (EWS), announced that it has entered into an agreement today with Torreco Inc. ("Torreco"), a private Ontario corporation, whereby Torreco agrees to invest $7 million to convert EWS's pilot plant in Sault Ste Marie, Ontario into the Company's first commercial scale tire recycling plant utilizing EWS's patented microwave technology. EWS will retain a 30% ownership interest in the plant and receive a royalty in perpetuity on the revenue generated from the sale of valuable commodities produced from its environmentally friendly tire recycling process. The investment by Torreco is being made via common share purchases of Ellsin Environmental Ltd. ("Ellsin"), a wholly owned subsidiary of EWS, which owns the Company's waste tire facility in Sault Ste Marie including land, building and equipment. The $7 million will be used to expand and modernize the plant utilizing EWS's latest technology. In exchange for the investment in Ellsin, Torreco will also be granted the right to build three additional end-of-life tire recycling facilities in Ontario over the next five years if it meets certain conditions.

This summer, the company successfully exhibited at IFAT 2022. In addition to many international customers, qualified contacts were made with tire recyclers and start-up companies, which are pushing into the market, reinforced also by the constantly evolving pyrolysis process. PRECIMECA says it fulfills peculiar tire recyclers' requirements with shredders that can rotate at different speeds, providing a clean cut due to specific cutting devices with 14 mobile and removable steel blades, offering the highest shelf life of knives, and lowest operating and maintenance cost in the market. The company offers fully integrated in-house manufacturing (design, welding, assembly, etc.), professional after-sales support, customer-oriented solutions and optimization of processes by the team with over 50 years of experience of collaboration with its customers.

Tire Technology Expo is Europe’s most important tire manufacturing technology exhibition and conference. With exhibits from many of the world's most important suppliers to the tire manufacturing industry plus a major conference, workshop program and industry-leading awards dinner, Tire Technology Expo is a must-attend industry event.

The Tire Industry Association (TIA) is an international non-profit association representing all segments of the tire industry, including those that manufacture, repair, recycle, sell, service or use new or retreaded tires, and also those suppliers or individuals who furnish equipment, material or services to the industry. The mission of TIA is to promote tire safety through training and education, to act as the principal advocate in government affairs and to enhance the image and professionalism of the industry so that our member businesses may be more successful. TIA has more than 13,000 members from all 50 states and around the globe.

Scandinavian Enviro Systems – Swedish tire pyrolysis equipment supplier and operator – has issued an interim report pinpointing the company is well-positioned to meet the increased interest in tire pyrolysis oil. Below we cite short facts from the report highlighted by Enviro. Q3 2020 • Net revenues for the period were million SEK 0.2 (EUR 19700) • Earnings after tax for the period were million SEK -12.7 (EUR -1.25 million)