News: Tire Recycling & Pyrolysis

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.

In December 2022, Tire Stewardship of Saskatchewan (TSS) announced that CRM®, a crumb rubber manufacturing company will be investing in a new state of the art end-of-life tire processing facility in Saskatchewan. CRM® operates nine plants in North America including plants in Ontario and Alberta and produces crumb rubber to be used in rubber modified asphalt, rubber molded products and as infill in synthetic sports fields. The province will return to having two processors in the province; the existing facility in Saskatoon and the new facility will be in Moose Jaw.

At CES Las Vegas 2023 in Nevada, The SMART Tire Company (STC) recently unveiled an almost unbreakable tire – a technological breakthrough that could revolutionize the industry. Using a technique developed by NASA that has already been used on the wheels of the Mars Curiosity vehicle, STC created its first commercial product METL tires in collaboration with the NASA Glenn Research Center. The award-winning SMART Tire (which stands for Shape Memory Alloy Radial Technology) has a patented load-bearing design that takes advantage of the unique properties of shape memory alloys. These special metals can expand, contract, bend or unbend at a very rapid rate (like rubber) and with so much force that it can move heavy objects. Even with extreme deformation, the tire regains 100% of its shape through phase transitions at the molecular level

Martin von Wolfersdorff – a renown carbon black expert from Berlin – is happy to share 5h of previously payable webinar content on his Youtube channel. Martin von Wolfersdorff is a world-class expert in pyrolysis and recovered carbon black as well as marketing of specialty chemical materials. He is deeply involved in the industry, serves one of the organizers of the first global conference on recovered carbon black and has been supporting multinational companies in the tire pyrolysis sector, the tire industry, tire trade organizations, rubber and the plastics industries.

Bridgestone Americas announced it is on pace to achieve one of its highest year-over-year results in its Bandag business with a 9% increase over 2021. With the growth experienced by strategic fleet partners and the unprecedented demand in the market, the company forecasts year-end sales of Bandag retreads will reach more than 7 million units in North America and anticipates continued growth in 2023 with a $60 million investment in its Abilene, Texas retread plant to increase production capacity.

Nokian Tyres in North America started 2022 with ambition. It ended as a success despite unexpected challenges, thanks to strong partnerships, growth at the company’s North American factory, and popular products tailored to the needs of drivers in the region, said officials. “When we started 2022, the sky was the limit,” said Nokian Tyres Vice President of Sales Tommi Heinonen. “We were launching new products and the market was moving.” Then war broke out in Ukraine, clouding Nokian Tyres’ sales outlook and disrupting its supply chain.

Apollo Tyres has been one of the most vocal companies about sustainability among the tire makers that are not in the leading pack of OE suppliers. But Apollo has big ambitions to be part of the OE supplier club, and is rapidly building its sustainability credentials. Would you like to know about Apollo´s sustainability journey? Please join Mobility & Tire Webinar #40 free webinar presenting Rinika Grover, Head of Sustainability & CSR at Apollo Tyres and regular panellists Eduardo Minardi of Minardi Global, and David Shaw of Tire Industry Research.

On behalf of our Client, a South-Eastern European entity, we seek a suitable off-taker for the unmilled and non-pelletized (raw) recovered Carbon Black (rCB). The Client has over a decade of experience in the pyrolysis industry. The Client seeks immediate off-takers for the readily available 4,000 tons of raw rCB, which is stored in 600kg big bags. In addition, the Client can supply 600 to 800 tons of raw rCB per month. Test results can be shared on request.

The Yokohama Rubber Co. announced that it will supply ADVAN racing tires with a sustainable material content as the control tire for the Japanese Super Formula Championship from the 2023 season. The company has completed development of tires for use in dry conditions and will continue developing tires for wet conditions with the aim of supplying them from 2023. The dry condition tires being supplied by Yokohama Rubber use natural rubber and various naturally derived compounding agents including oil produced from oil palm nuts and orange peels, as well as recycled iron, rubber recycled from waste tires, and synthetic rubber produced using the mass balance method – a method that allows you to label a commercial product as a biomass-derived product based on the volume of biomass-derived raw materials used during the process of turning raw materials into final products and the distribution process.