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Natural rubber demand set to increase while global economy anticipates rubber shortage

Natural rubber demand set to increase while global economy anticipates rubber shortage

Natural Rubber

July 26, 2021

Climate change, Covid-19 pandemic and the fight for shipping containers are some of the obstacles that rubber producers face these days. The global rubber market has recently witnessed numerous supply chain disruptions, and now the international economy is challenged by a rubber deficiency, according to CNBC report. The broadcaster spoke to Ohio State University professor Katrina Cornish, who says that the global market is on the verge of ‘a rubber apocalypse’. Rubber is a crucial component used in the making of car tires, and supply chain disruptions can seriously impact the tire recycling industry. According to some forecast quoted by CNBC, the demand for natural rubber will only be increasing, and the NR market could be estimated at nearly $68.5 billion by 2026. And people’s dependence on car tires will keep on boosting the demand for rubber.

ECO Green Equipment on important aspects of running a tire recycling business
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ECO Green Equipment on important aspects of running a tire recycling business

Business Advice

July 26, 2021

In its recent article headlined “Assessing Your Local Tire Recycling Market”, ECO Green Equipment – a prominent award-winning tire recycling equipment manufacturer from Utah, United States – explains about important aspects of running a tire recycling business. Below, we quote the article to share this useful information with our readers. ECO Green writes that according to statistics released by the US Tire Manufacturers Association (USTMA), tire recycling efforts are not keeping up with waste tire production. Tire recycling hit a record high in 2013. A whopping 96% of tires found their way to tire recycling facilities instead of stockpiles or landfills. Unfortunately, by 2019, that number had dropped to 76%, highlighting a possible opening in the market for more rubber recycling plants. Recycling waste tires is a great business opportunity that benefits the environment, but can your market support a successful new start-up?

French companies to launch end-of-life tire retreading plant, supported by Bridgestone

French companies to launch end-of-life tire retreading plant, supported by Bridgestone

Retreading

July 25, 2021

Former Bridgestone plant in French city of Béthune will collect, sort and retread passenger car tires. The agreement on this has been reached by a French retreading specialist Black-Star with the car maintenance company Mobivia with the help of Bridgestone. An integrated tire recycling ecosystem that relies on the circular economy and gives scrap tires a second life will be developed on a special industrial site with the support of iWip subsidiary. Mobivia will provide its auto centers for tire collection. From there, scrap tires will be transported and retreaded. The recycling process will help save up to 80 percent of the original material used in tire production. Each tire will be recycled into 9 kg of rubber and steel.

Orion Engineered Carbons partners with RISE to produce renewable carbon black at commercial scale

Orion Engineered Carbons partners with RISE to produce renewable carbon black at commercial scale

Innovations

July 23, 2021

Orion Engineered Carbons S.A. (NYSE: OEC), one of the leading global suppliers of specialty and high-performance carbon black, has partnered with RISE Research Institutes of Sweden in a project to develop and produce renewable carbon black (rCB). This collaboration represents an important step towards more climate-neutral carbon black production by replacing traditional carbon black feedstock with pyrolysis oil from biomass oil. Orion plans to convert the biomass oil into carbon black using its small-scale furnace reactor in Kalscheuren, Germany and will explore ways to upscale the process to match market demands. Additionally, using a pilot-scale reactor at its site in Piteå, Sweden, RISE will evaluate the use of electrofuels, such as plasma or hydrogen from electrolysis, as sustainable heat sources for the carbon black process.

Fiji launches end-of-life tire stewardship initiative

Fiji launches end-of-life tire stewardship initiative

Regulations

July 23, 2021

Aiming at waste reduction and actually creating new economic opportunities, Fiji’s government is funding the new Fijian Stewardship of Tyres with an allocation of $200,000 in the 2021-2022 financial year, Fiji Times report. “It is a tragedy to see used tires ending up in ditches by the road, strewn across the coast, in our communities and it becomes the breeding grounds for mosquitoes,” said Attorney-General Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum while delivering the 2021- 2022 National Budget last Friday. “Rather than being discarded and left to become unsightly breeding grounds for mosquitoes, they can actually be used for productive purposes. “Through this new program, we will be buying back used tires for loose tire imports and imposing a tire recycling levy on all new and second-hand imported vehicles

American tire recycler grows despite global pandemic

American tire recycler grows despite global pandemic

General

July 20, 2021

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.”

OTR tire devulcanization project receives support in Australia

OTR tire devulcanization project receives support in Australia

OTR Tires

July 18, 2021

International Mining (IM) magazine reports that MMG’s Dugald River underground zinc mine Cloncurry in Queensland, Australia is tackling how to recycle end-of-life tires. According to the magazine, the mine annually generates about 920 end-f-life tires from technical vehicles and trucks. The Council of Australian Governments decided to ban used and end-of-life tire exports from December 2021, and the country is now facing a growing tire stockpile problem. According to IM, Dugald River and its mining contractor Barminco have investigated alternative tire disposal, supporting a joint venture – REVYRE – program with Energy Estate and InfraCo. Reportedly, a proposed recycling process breaks down and repurposes end-of-life tires into a high value polymer product fit for tire manufacturing and clean high tensile scrap steel. REVYRE is a low emission rubber polymer recovery and re-processing business for end-of-life rubber products including end-of-life tires, conveyor belts and like products. It utilizes award winning, recently commercialized technologies in its two-step recycling process and is the only available genuine industry solution for the re-use of rubber in the circular economy.

MOL and Tatneft launched joint rubber bitumen project involving end-of-life tire recycling

MOL and Tatneft launched joint rubber bitumen project involving end-of-life tire recycling

Rubberized Asphalt

July 14, 2021

MOL and Tatneft, one of the largest oil and gas companies in Russia, have solemnly launched a joint project for a rubber bitumen plant in the Republic of Tatarstan. According to MOL, the project partly involves end-of-life recycling. The companies have also agreed to establish a joint venture that, besides manufacturing and selling rubber bitumen, will also be authorized to market MOL's technology license in the Commonwealth of Independent States. The investment is partly financed by the HEPA Hungarian Export Promotion Agency tender funding.

UK’s Tyre Recovery Association says end-of-life tires are getting heavier

UK’s Tyre Recovery Association says end-of-life tires are getting heavier

Industry Updates

July 14, 2021

In its press release from July 12, 2021, Tyre Recovery Association – the British end-of-life tire management authority – reports that a number of factors have pushed up the cost of end-of-life tire collection over the past two years but what the industry tends to overlook is the seemingly relentless increase in the average weight of our passenger car tires. TRA says that “the trend to ultra-low profile (ULP) tires coupled with the popularity of sport utility vehicles (SUVs) with larger diameter tires has had a real impact on recycling volumes as new data from Astutus Research reveals. Recent analysis by Astutus reveals that the average weight of a car tire is now 7% more that it was just five years ago.”