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A renowned in the tyre recycling industry British magazine Tyre & Rubber Recycling and its Chief Editor Ewan Scott recently launched a podcast giving exposure to issues and updates in tyre recycling, pyrolysis and other related subjects. The Tyre Recycling Podcast will feature key personalities from the tyre recycling industry from around the world and will be published on a regular basis.

The use of Recovered carbon black from end-of-life tires and plastic pyrolysis has caused fluctuations in price and demand in the Masterbatch market. From the beginning of 2023, the Masterbatch market in Asia, especially in India and China, has experienced fluctuating pricing trends from the beginning of 2023. Due to decreasing demand from downstream industries like electronics, packaging, and rubber, the pricing trend for Masterbatch in the local Indian market has been bearish. Black Masterbatch (40% carbon black) cost $1977 per ton in India in January 2023 but fell to $1770 per ton in February 2023, a 10.5% decrease. Due to declining naphtha and coal prices in the domestic Indian market, prices decreased further by 6.9% to $1648 per ton in March 2023.

George Monbiot, a columnist for The Guardian stated that Britain was avoiding tire recycling in the country and was sending instead huge cargos of scrap tires to India. Once the exported waste tires reached facilities in India, they were processed into fuel by means of pyrolysis in most cases. According to the journo’s study, the British authorities haven’t been checking that scrap tires actually were handled at the legal premises and were absolutely safe to the environment. Thus, he concluded that the tire processing was not being monitored carefully enough.

On February 25-27, 2020, Martin von Wolfersdorff – recovered carbon black expert from Germany – will attend the Tire Technology Expo in Hannover. Meet Mr. Wolfersdorff during the conference to learn more about recent developments in the industry. On day 3 of the event, the expert will deliver a speech "Solving the Problem of Waste Tires", where he will highlight tire-to-tire material recycling examples in the whole tire value chain from OEM car builders to tire makers, tire raw material suppliers as well as successful "circular" tire recycling companies.

The BlackCycle consortium, in collaboration with CERTH, will be presenting an abstract at the European Congress on Catalysis (EuropaCat) in Prague, Czech Republic, from August 27th to September 1st, 2023. The abstract focuses on the systematic screening of conventional and hierarchical zeolites for the catalytic conversion of end-of-life tire pyrolysis vapors into aromatic compounds. The study is part of the EU project BlackCycle, which aims to develop a technology for recycling end-of-life tires into raw materials that can be used in the production of new tires.

According to the Rubber World Magazine, Tokai Carbon CB announced that its Addis, LA facility is certified to the ISCC (International Sustainability and Carbon Certification) Plus standard, allowing supply of sustainable carbon black. Tokai’s Borger, TX facility was the first carbon black plant in the world to achieve ISCC Plus certification in early 2022. This certification allows Tokai to provide sustainable carbon blacks from two plants using a mass balance process. The ISCC Plus standard uses a mass balance approach to enable users of circular and bio-based feedstocks to certify their products corresponding to the amount of these feedstocks consumed. Tokai Carbon CB currently uses a circular tire pyrolysis oil from ISCC Plus certified suppliers to produce sustainable carbon black declarations that customers are purchasing to produce sustainable consumer products.

According to Swedish Tyre Recycling (Svensk Däckåtervinning AB), the company has been working with balance since 1994, and this year marks their 30th anniversary. The company focuses on aligning society’s need for resources with the planet’s renewable capacity to promote a sustainable existence. This involves using existing resources for longer periods with minimal modification, particularly in areas where virgin extraction would have significant consequences.

As the construction of the Uddevalla recycling plant continues, Scandinavian Enviro Systems AB (publ) has released a half-year report. Second quarter 2024: Net revenues for the period were MSEK 58.5(3.6) Earnings after tax for the period were MSEK 30.5 (-25.3) Earnings per share for the period (before dilution) was SEK 0.04 (-0.03)

Pyrum Innovations AG (Pyrum), a pioneering company that recycles end-of-life tires sustainably with its globally patented, unique pyrolysis technology, and the bicycle tire manufacturer Ralf Bohle GmbH (Schwalbe brand) have developed the world's first bicycle tire made from recycled tires. Pyrum's Green Marathon uses 100% recycled carbon black (rCB), which is a direct product of the recycling process and replaces fossil carbon black. The production of the innovative bicycle tire saves more than a third of CO2eQ compared to the previous model. To determine the CO2 savings, a detailed Product Carbon Footprint (PCF) of both models was calculated and evaluated according to the current IPCC AR6 standard (GWP 100, excl. biogenic CO2).