News: Tire Recycling & Pyrolysis

In a recent press release, Mars Mineral – an American manufacturer of pelletizing technology – announced the appointment of William Booher as new technical sales and product applications manager. He has more than 25 years of experience in the specialty chemical and metals industries, most recently as the director of sales and marketing for a tooling and wear parts manufacturer. William Booher graduated from Youngstown State University with a bachelor's degree in chemistry. Booher's new role at Mars Mineral will involve both technical sales and after-sale support in addition to demonstrating the effectiveness of the company's pelletizing technology. Additionally, he will supervise these relationships, put strategic sales and marketing plans into action, and promote the Mars Mineral brand internationally.

Building on the success of last edition of summit, ACI announced that the 3rd European Carbon Black Summit will take place on 14th on 15th June 2023 in Frankfurt, Germany. To register for the Summit, ACI offers a special 15% discount up until 6 weeks prior to the event and 10% after that until the event's date to all Weibold’s subsribers available via the promo code “CCBe3MKTWeibold”. For further information or to register your attendance contact Rohan Baryah on rbayrah@acieu.net or +48 61 646 7022 quoting the promo code.

Indian Tyre Technical Advisory Committee (ITTAC), the technical organization representing the Indian Tyre Industry, and Automobile Tyre Manufacturers Association (ATMA) have taken the initiative to organize a day long “invite-only” Conference on Circular Economy on Wednesday, February 8, 2023 at Hotel Le Meridien, Janpath, New Delhi. All concerned stakeholders in the eco-system of Tyre Industry, which are integral part of the Circular Economy, viz. senior Government officials & Policy makers, representatives from the Tyre Industry, material recovery, reclaim, retreading and allied sectors have been invited to participate in the Conference and contribute in the deliberations.

Scandinavian Enviro Systems (Enviro) has received an order for pyrolysis oil, the total value of which Enviro estimates to be approximately MSEK 4.7 (USD 450,000). Behind the order is the subsidiary of a leading US oil company that submitted an initial order for oil in February of 2022 for production tests. Delivery of the order is expected over a period of about one year beginning in March 2023 and follows on from successful production testing by the customer that Enviro previously announced.

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The best available technology (BAT) is the technology approved by legislators or regulators for meeting output standards for a particular process. BAT for a given industrial sector is described in reference documents called BREFs (Best Available Techniques Reference documents). BREFs are the result of an exchange of information between European Union Member States, the industries concerned, non-governmental organizations promoting environmental protection and the European Commission. This exchange of information is referred to as the Sevilla process because it is steered within the Institute for Prospective Technological Studies of the European Commissions' Joint Research Centre, which is based in Seville. The process is codified into law by Commission Implementing Decisions. The most important chapter of the BREFs, the BAT conclusions, are published as implementing decisions of the European Commission in the Official Journal of the European Union. According to the Industrial Emissions Directive (IED), the BAT conclusions shall be the reference for setting permit conditions of (large) industrial installations.

Rema Tip Top is a Germany-based global system provider of services and products in the field of conveying and processing technology as well as for tire repairs. The company has a global service network and offers a wide range of polymer products, rubber linings and coatings for industry and the automotive sector. For Rema Tip Top, there are hardly any technical or economic limits to a tire repair. A typical case, which occurs almost daily in repair shops: A car owner has driven into a screw or other sharp object and the tire thus has a typical puncture injury in the tread. This damage can be repaired. But with a residual profile of 50%, many vehicle owners are rather skeptical and tend to replace the tires.

Large industrial companies are involved at a crucial point in the process of sustainable tire recycling. AZUR network coordinator Christina Guth welcomes the joining of Zeppelin Systems GmbH at the turn of the year: "With the Zeppelin systems, the tire recycling cycle is efficiently closed." Zeppelin is one of the world's leading system manufacturers that specializes in the development of components and plants for the handling (storage, conveying, mixing, dosing and weighing) of high-quality bulk materials. Zeppelin Systems has many years of experience in blending plants and also covers all processes in the rubber and tire industry down to the smallest detail.

Researchers at the University of Vienna's Centre for Microbiology and Environmental Sciences have now demonstrated that chemicals released from tires do, in fact, enter the food stream and may be consumed along with Quinone 6PPD which was defined as a toxin that impacts Coho Salmon. Their examinations of the impacts of contaminants from tire wear on lettuce revealed that: The lettuce absorbed all the chemicals investigated, some of which were quite hazardous. It will take further research to determine how this mechanism truly occurs in arable soils. An international publication called Environmental Science & Technology has officially published the report.