News: Tire Recycling & Pyrolysis

Waste tires have been dumped in Washington State's Puget Sound over the years. According to local estimates, some 500,000 tyres may need to be retrieved from the sea. According to environmentalists, the abandoned tires are releasing pollutants into the surrounding waterway, causing harm to flora and fauna.

The European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) is a legally autonomous, independent EU authority which, in accordance with Regulation (EC) No. 1907/2006 (REACH), regulates the technical, scientific, and administrative aspects of registration, evaluation and authorization of chemicals. It is based in Helsinki, Finland, and ensures the registration, evaluation, authorization, and restriction of chemicals in a uniform procedure within the European Union. ECHA started its work in 2007.

To register for the summit, ACI offers a special 10% discount to all Weibold’s subsribers available via the promo code “CCBe2RB10”. For further information or to register your attendance contact Rohan Baryah on rbayrah@acieu.net or + 48 61 646 7022 quoting the promo code. The two-day event will bring together senior representatives of the different stakeholders involved in this sector, from producers, technology developers, rubber producers, chemical suppliers, researchers, as well as other influential stakeholders from the value chain.

The three day event will take place from Monday through to Wednesday 30 May - 1 June 2022 at LE LOUISE Hotel Brussels. The Conference is the culmination of a year-long series of ETRA-led and supported activities and events that focused on market development and expansion for a broad array of recycled tire materials, products and applications.

Recently, officials with the Alabama Department of Conservation and Natural Resources and the Alabama Department of Environmental Management showed off newly resurfaced roads and parking areas at Lake Guntersville State Park paved with rubberized asphalt made with materials from end-of-life tires.

Bolder Industries – an American renowned tire pyrolysis operator and recovered carbon black producer – has been granted two tax abatements by the Terre Haute City Council for setting up a new pyrolysis plant in the city. Bolder Industries Inc. is investing $40 million in the former Pyrolyx USA plant to start a used tire recycling operation.

On April 15, SK Energy and SK Networks announced that they will collaborate with Daeho Industries, Korea's leading retread tyre manufacturer, to develop a low-carbon circular system that utilizes scrap tyres. According to the agreement, the three parties will analyze the viability of the pyrolysis process that produces recovered carbon black and pyrolysis oil, as well as the measures to strengthen the collection and delivery system of waste tyres in South Korea.

Recently Ecolomondo announced plans to expand its production facilities with a new factory to be built near Shamrock, Texas. The Canadian company will invest C$110 million in the new factory, which will have six reactors and be capable of handle over 50,000 tons of tires every year.

Rubber Conversion, an Italian rubber recycler, has closed a €2.5 million fund raising round to expand manufacturing capacity and enter new markets. Rubber Conversion, based in Verona, Italy, has a patented industrial technology for rubber devulcanization and produces devulcanized 'high-quality' rubber mixtures that are "free of dangerous chemicals and have a low environmental impact."