News: Tire Recycling & Pyrolysis

Pyrum Innovations AG, a leading player in tire pyrolysis, has successfully installed two pyrolysis reactors for its production lines 2 and 3 at its main plant in Dillingen/Saar. This marks a significant milestone in the expansion of the plant and represents the first step towards increasing the recycling capacity of the facility. The CEO of Pyrum Innovations, Pascal Klein, stated that despite various challenges, such as supply chain disruptions, the chip shortage, and the impact of COVID-19, the company expects to complete the expansion on schedule.

Adele Rose, the Tyrewise’s Implementation Project manager, and the team at Tyrewise are only months away from seeing the roll-out of a nationwide product stewardship scheme for end-of-life tyres (ELTs) and they are already planning how to tackle entire cars. A four-month systems and process trial of Tyrewise was completed at the end of December from Hawke’s Bay and the programme governed by Auto Stewardship New Zealand (ASNZ) is expected to be officially launched in the end of 2023. The Tyrewise team is working hard with a number of businesses in the North Island on the systems and software trial. Rose says the trial was mainly focused on capturing data through software that tracks ELTs from their collection point all the way through to processing.

As per the recent press release, a newly approved standard from ASTM International’s recovered carbon black committee (D36) provided a test that will help to differentiate products and provide a quality control tool for producers and users. Recovered carbon black (rCB) is a recycled product made from end-of-life tires. The new standard, which will shortly be published as D8474, specifies a thermogravimetric (TGA) technique for determining the amount of organic residue, how much fixed carbon is in total, and how much ash is in recovered carbon black.

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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