News: Tire Recycling & Pyrolysis

A massive transportation operation earlier in 2022 relocated Kuwait's tire graveyard. The tires were transported to Al-new Salmi's recycling facility. There was an urgent need to deal with the estimated 42 million tires that had been dumped in the desert, and the original dump site had been designated for a new housing development. There was an intense competition to win the contract to recycle the tires, and EPSCO was one of the winners.

With an estimated 150,000 tons of waste tires produced annually in Bahia (Argentina), the province seems to lack a solution to the problem of end-of-life tires. The impact of the waste tyres is due to several factors, among which are their composition since they contain 80% rubber, 15% steel and 5% textile fibre, and compounds that take thousands of years to degrade.

Pyrum Innovations AG (Pyrum) yesterday held its first Annual General Meeting following its IPO in Oslo and its secondary listing on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange. The Executive Board looked back on the year 2021, in which the company had reached important milestones on the way to the commercial development of its pyrolysis technology and achieved a total output of 3.7 million euros. The shareholders present approved all agenda items with a large majority.

Tons of waste tires thrown on the streets of Manaus (AM) and on the outskirts of the city, already in the Amazon Forest area – accumulating standing water and serving as a breeding ground for the Aedes aegypti mosquito – will be collected and transported by containers to a recycling plant located in the Metropolitan Region. from Curitiba (PR).

Pyrum Innovations AG and Ralf Bohle GmbH (Schwalbe brand) have presented a new recycling system for used bicycle tires at the start of the world's largest bicycle trade fair Eurobike in Frankfurt. The "Schwalbe Recycling System", which was developed in close cooperation with the TH Köln (University of Applied Sciences), enables the integrated recycling of used tires of all brands.

DRI Rubber, one of the global leaders in reprocessed rubber compounds and fiber reinforced compounds (FRC®), is proud to announce that it has been named both one of the “10 Most Innovative Companies in Europe 2022” and “Top Rubber and Tire Solutions Provider Europe 2022”. Digital First Magazine named DRI Rubber one of the Ten Most Innovative Companies in Europe 2022. The magazine chose companies that ‘have developed innovative strategies, built innovation capabilities, designed and launched new products and stimulated innovation ecosystems.’

Tyre Stewardship Australia (TSA) recently announced it was looking to an independent review to help shape its future. An independent review is designed to ensure product stewardship schemes continue to benefit the public. The review includes upwards of 50 interviews with government bodies, tire recyclers, processors, consumers and anyone involved in a particular scheme.  TSA CEO Lina Goodman describes it as a “hard-core report card” which outlines the scheme’s success and its failings. But it’s not a report that slaps you over the wrist and publicly shames you. If used correctly it can pivot the scheme to do better.

Continental has obtained the highest rating as a global leader in the implementation of sustainability measures and strategies from the international Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) for the fourth year in a row ("Supplier Engagement Rating") for its work in 2021. The evaluation is based on information on corporate governance, Scope 3 emissions, and supply chain management as a whole that was given by the relevant companies. In order to minimize environmental risks and emissions, CDP pays particular attention to strategies and procedures that help make those risks and emissions observable throughout the value chains.

The Swiss innovator and scale-up company Tyre Recycling Solutions SA (TRS) in Préverenges has chosen BUSS AG’s COMPEOTM technology for implementation of their TRS Intelligent Compounding© concept, which transforms their powder products obtained from recycled end-of-life tires into innovative and valuable compounds at industrial scale. TRS’s performance materials, which require a specific, proprietary compounding process of TPE/TPU based resins with recycled rubber powder, bring a green transformation to a wide range of applications – from Gaskets, Logistics, Automotive and Construction industry to footwear and 3D printing.