News: Tire Recycling & Pyrolysis

Episode 21 of the Retreadcast sees Edd Burleson, the President of Central Marketing discuss a wide variety of topics facing the company and the retreading market from the impact of technology on the retreading market, to the role of sustainability in the US retreading market and how Central Marketing has adapted to the new working practices brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic.

CM Shredders – one of the leading tire recycling equipment manufacturers worldwide – announced recently the installation of a new state-of-the-art, high-capacity automated tire shredding system for its customer Southeastern Public Service Authority (SPSA) in Suffolk, Virginia, USA. According to CM’s press release, the new system, which can process end-of-life car, truck and light OTR tires, features CM's brand new HT-250 Hybrid Primary Shredder integrated with a high-volume automatic infeed system. According to CM, the system’s capacity reached 30 tons per hour during runoff tests.

Pyrum Innovations AG (Pyrum) – a pioneer in the sustainable recycling of end-of-life tires (ELT) based on its pyrolysis technology – filed an application for a secondary listing in the Scale segment with Deutsche Börse AG in Frankfurt.

Episode 31 of the Tyre Recycling Podcast focuses on tire derived aggregate as Ewan Scott interviews Andreas Petterssen, the Head of R&D at Wieder Tech. In the context of soaring heating bills and the ongoing question about how the tire industry will deal with a 100% of its tire arisings, Petterssen sheds light on Wieder Tech's innovative engineering.

As reported earlier, this year, India plans to implement an EPR scheme for tires. The consultation document was released in January, and the system has already been eased. In a letter from the Ministry of Environment, Forest, and Climate Change to the All India Rubber & Tyre Recyclers Association (AIRTIA and the Recycling & Environment Industry Association of India (REIAI), the ministry advised on the following easement.

For the fourth consecutive year, the Galapagos Islands are free of used tires. After removing 16,000 of these tires, the volume equivalent to a five-story building, the archipelago fulfills its objective of caring for its ecosystems.

Tyre Stewardship Australia (TSA) has positioned itself as a leader in understanding these off-the-road (OTR) challenges by talking with various stakeholders in the tire value chain, from minerals councils, mining companies and manufacturers to local government, recyclers and community groups.

Fijian government is exploring the possibility of using end-of-life tires to lay new roads. Fijian Minister for Economy Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum says rubber mixed with glass and bitumen has been used to lay new roads in other parts of the world. It is a process that Fiji should also be considering says Sayed-Khaiyum.

According to its latest press release, Ecolomondo Corporation – a Canadian cleantech company specializing in the commercialization of its Thermal Decomposition Process (TDP) proprietary recycling technology and building and operating turnkey TDP facilities globally – announced that it has secured an offtake agreement for up to 80% of its Recovered Carbon Black (rCB) production from the Company’s Hawkesbury TDP facility.