News: Tire Recycling & Pyrolysis

In order to benefit from the most recent technology available to the trucking industry, Liberty Tire Recycling decided to switch from short-term leasing to full-service leasing and teamed with PacLease. By recycling more than 190 million tires annually, Liberty Tire reclaims approximately 3 billion pounds of rubber each year. Liberty Tire's recycled rubber is utilized to make creative, environmentally friendly goods including playground and landscape equipment that are offered at more than 15,000 retail establishments across North America.

Ambipar announced the acquisition of the assets and industrial waste management contracts of Blue Ambiental. Blue Ambiental is a tire, and waste rubber processor, part of the tyre industry reverse logistics, which operates in the Ceará market and which, in the last 12 months, processed more than 4,500 tons of tires and rubber.

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.