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Pyrolyx USA liquidates its tire pyrolysis plant due to bankruptcy

Pyrolyx USA liquidates its tire pyrolysis plant due to bankruptcy

Pyrolysis

November 20, 2020

According to several reports by Bloomberg Law and WTHI-TV Pyrolyx USA Indiana LLC – a tire pyrolysis plant focused on recovered carbon black production – filed for Chapter 7 protection “a liquidation bankruptcy” in Delaware this Autumn. The sources say this information is confirmed by court papers. According to Bloomberg Law, Pyrolyx USA Indiana LLC reported in April that it couldn’t make loan payments backing municipal bonds sold in 2017 after it shut its plant in Terre Haute because of the coronavirus outbreak.

ECO Green Equipment debuts ECO Extractor 63 for recycling mining tires
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ECO Green Equipment debuts ECO Extractor 63 for recycling mining tires

Technology

November 19, 2020

ECO Green Equipment – industrial tire recycling solutions provider and equipment manufacturer – unveils innovative ECO Extractor 63 capable of removing steel beads from 10 mining tires per hour. The Utah-based tire recycling equipment manufacturer is continually exploring new ways to make the tire recycling process more efficient and environmentally friendly. Their products, which range from shredders and grinders to colorizers and control panels, employ the latest technology, as ECO Green reports. Now, ECO Green’s team introduces their newest innovation: the ECO Extractor 63.

AZuR’s success with first workshops about tire recycling, pyrolysis and retreading

AZuR’s success with first workshops about tire recycling, pyrolysis and retreading

Events

November 19, 2020

AZuR – Germany’s innovation forum for tire recycling – reports that with three workshops on the topics "tire recycling", "retreading" and "pyrolysis" the AZuR network has successfully started its active work. The project, which is financed by the funding guideline "Innovationsforum Mittelstand" of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research, was very well received by the economy, science and also politics. "We had three very exciting and above all productive meetings in which the discussions were very open and differentiated", says network coordinator Christina Guth.

Australian end-of-life tyre recycler expands its operations in Sydney

Australian end-of-life tyre recycler expands its operations in Sydney

General

November 18, 2020

Tyrecycle – an Australian end-of-life tyre recycling company – moves to expand its operations in Sydney with a new state-of-the-art manufacturing plant. Australian e-magazine Waste Management Review reports that Australia’s leading tyre recycler, Tyrecycle is gearing up for a purpose-built multi-million dollar rubber crumb manufacturing plant in Sydney, following significant growth in the uptake of its products produced from end-of-life tyres. Tyrecycle Chief Executive Officer Jim Fairweather says the move is to cater for strong demand over the past two years, with the company experiencing a 30 per cent growth in sales of rubber crumb.

Energy trading company signs offtake agreement for pyrolysis oil in the UK

Energy trading company signs offtake agreement for pyrolysis oil in the UK

Pyrolysis

November 17, 2020

ShipInsight – an online magazine focused on ship operation, ship management and marine journalism – reports that an energy and commodity trader Vitol and Wastefront, the Norwegian waste tire pyrolysis company, have announced a 10-year offtake agreement for the production of liquid hydrocarbons (pyrolytic fuel oil) and certain non-liquid products which will be produced at Wastefront’s first waste tire pyrolysis plant in Sunderland, UK, on its completion in 2023. In addition to the offtake agreement, Vitol and Wastefront have also established a framework agreement for the 10-year offtake from future end-of-life tire pyrolysis plants to be developed and built by Wastefront.

Leading bicycle distributor links up with tube and tyre recycling company in the UK

Leading bicycle distributor links up with tube and tyre recycling company in the UK

Partnerships

November 13, 2020

The e-magazine Cycle Industry News reports that Madison – one of the UK’s leading bicycle parts and accessories distributors – haD linked up with national tube and tyre recycling company Velorim in a bid to offer its retailers a channel to dispose of end-of-life tyres and rubber waste. The magazine says that with the legislation on scrapping bicycle tyres now caught up with the same rules applicable to car tyres. Velorim set out to assist retailers in disposing of their waste.

British Environmental Agency allows using waste tyres in escape ladders in water storage reservoirs

British Environmental Agency allows using waste tyres in escape ladders in water storage reservoirs

Regulations

November 13, 2020

The government of the United Kingdom recently issued a statement where it announced that the low risk waste position (LRWP) applies to the use waste tyres in escape ladders in water storage reservoirs. When one follows the conditions in this LRWP, the use waste tyres in escape ladders in water storage reservoirs is allowed without an environmental permit for a waste operation.

Trelleborg to utilize Enviro’s recovered carbon black in rubber compounds

Trelleborg to utilize Enviro’s recovered carbon black in rubber compounds

Carbon Black

November 11, 2020

Scandinavian Enviro Systems (Enviro) reports that its Recovered carbon black will be introduced in a customer-specific rubber compound supplied by Trelleborg Mixing Forsheda. According to Enviro, the introduction means that its recovered carbon black takes a step into a new segment and is the result of successful production tests and a long-term collaboration between the parties. Volumes and dates for future deliveries remain to be determined.

Gradeall introduces new cost-saving Car Tyre Sidewall Cutter
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Gradeall introduces new cost-saving Car Tyre Sidewall Cutter

Technology

November 11, 2020

Gradeall International – a renowned manufacturer of tyre bailing and end-of-life tyre recycling equipment from Northern Ireland – introduced a new machine in its tyre recycling range, the Car Sidewall Cutter. The new cutter is specifically designed to downsize passenger car tyres to prepare them for shredding as well as other recycling processes. The manufacturer says that the Car Tyre Sidewall Cutter builds upon the Gradeall team’s experience gathered from the Sidewall Cutter, another and bigger machine for efficient and cost-effective cutting of tyre sidewalls for larger tyres. The Car Tyre Sidewall Cutter is a smaller machine designed specifically for dealing with end-of-life car and passenger vehicle tyres.