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Eagle International – a renowned manufacturer of tire recycling equipment – reports that its Punch Cutter has become a well-established machine for cutting OTR tires into usable segments. Eagle’s patented machine is designed to punch through the tread of an OTR tire and split it into two halves down the center of the tread. It is a more compact option for cutting tires in half within Eagle’s flagship OTR Downsizing System.

Scandinavian Enviro Systems’ (Enviro) major shareholder Michelin has developed a racing tire for this year's edition of the Le Mans 24-hour race that contains a full 63% sustainable materials, including recovered carbon black (rCB) from Enviro's plant in Åsensbruk, Sweden. The tire was used on one of the cars taking part in the famous race's 100th anniversary. For 25 consecutive years, from 1998 to 2022, Michelin tires have been fitted to the winning cars. For this year's edition, which took place between June 10 and 11, Michelin has developed a racing tire that contains a whopping 63% envaironmentally sustainable materials, including recovered carbon black from Enviro.

Scandinavian Enviro Systems (Enviro) – a Swedish tyre pyrolysis operator and technology supplier – reports that Michelin, the principal owner of Enviro, unveiled tyres with a high proportion of environmentally sustainable materials that have been approved for use on ordinary road vehicles. These include a tyre for buses and a tyre for cars, where the car tyre contains recovered carbon black from Enviro, among other materials.

Chile's Ministry of Environment published the first decree linked to Law 20,920 in January 2021, which states that by 2030, all tires on mining trucks with 45-inch or larger tires must be recycled 100 percent. The gradual implementation of tire recycling in mining must start in 2023.

Despite its opposition to Extended Producer Responsibility in the UK, the Tyre Recovery Association (TRA) welcomed the Indian government's initiative of an action plan to manage the country's growing waste volumes.

The tyre baler conveyor is an all-new product from Gradeall designed to maximise tyre baling efficiency. The manufacturer reports that the tyre baler conveyor combined with either the MK2 or MK3 tyre baler is the fastest, most user-friendly way to bale large volumes of tyres. Rather than have operators spend valuable time searching for tyres, or walking to a pile of tyres and back to the baler repetitively the conveyor hopper is loaded with tyres via telehandler in a matter of minutes.

The 28th Annual ETRA Conference on Tyre Recycling will take place Wednesday through Friday, 29 - 31 March 2023 at Le Louise Hotel in Brussels. Influential and informative as always it is the unrivalled ‘one-stop’ shop for all those seeking the latest insights into the worldwide business of tyre recycling. With its focus on providing insights into every aspect of the ever more important subject of used tyre management no other single event comes close to delivering essential insights into our future as an industry with its many conference sessions, exhibitions networking and social opportunities.

PRECIMECA, a company founded 1973 in France, offers a complete range of shredders and rotary shears for the treatment and recycling of waste (bulky, industrial, hazardous) and has recognized know-how in shredding scraped tyres. With the participation at the IFAT in Munich PRECIMECA decided to intensify them activity in the German-speaking market, and welcome the international audience to communicate them requirements personally with the present PRECIMECA staff. With more than 25 years of experience in the tyre recycling sector, PRECIMECA offers a wide range of systems and services in different countries. Delivery of shredders, as well as complete turnkey plants (stationary or mobile), conversion and modernization of existing plants, coupled with in-depth expertise which includes routine and extraordinary maintenance as well as needs analysis to offer specific recycling solutions.

End-of-life tire recyclers and retreading companies will be able to compete in several nominations next year as part of the 2022 Recircle Awards that praise sustainable businesses, recycled tire rubber products and management teams in the tire recycling sector. The winners will be announced on April 25.