News: Tire Recycling & Pyrolysis

CarbonX – a specialty carbon black manufacturer from the Netherlands – asserts its sustainable products can improve both tire performance and fuel efficiency at real world tests. Besides, the company's products is positioned as "reducing CO₂ emissions", which the company demonstrates in the video below. CarbonX highlights that during tire manufacturing, the downstream emissions outweigh upstream emissions.

Tyre Stewardship Australia (TSA) – an end-of-life tire management organization promoting sustainable recycling and reuse practices – invites to attend a Tech Talk on Crumb Rubber in Asphalt, which is to be help at RMIT University in Melbourne on July 7, 2022.

Last week, David Spear FAICD FAIM – the Chairman of Tyre Stewardship Australia (TSA) – met with Large Format Retail Association (LFRA) Members from across Australia to discuss the role of product stewardship, and how LFRA members can learn and be part of the sustainable management of end-of-life tires.

6PPD is an antioxidant and antiozonant that helps prevent the degradation and cracking of rubber compounds caused by exposure to oxygen, ozone and temperature fluctuation. 6PPD is used industry wide to help tires resist degradation and cracking, which is vital for driver and passenger safety. Antioxidants support increased tire endurance. There are no known alternatives to 6PPD that provide the same safety and performance characteristics in a tire.

Britain’s Tyre Recovery Association has slammed the waste compliance standards of some signatories to the Basel Convention at this year’s European Tyre Recycling Association Conference that took place in Brussels on May 30 – June 1.

The Tire Cologne, which ended on Thursday, 26 May 2022, returned after a Covid imposed absence with a series of panels on tire recycling. Representatives of the renowned in tire recycling industry British magazines Tyre and Rubber Recycling and Retreading Business successfully presented at the Tyre Recycling Forum of The Tire Cologne.

Anyline allows the whole tire industry to implement data management for every tire sold and disposed of. Tire tagging has been discussed and tested in the UK, with the goal of retailers tagging tires upon disposal. If those tires turn up later at dumpsites, the source can be tracked down and the illegal operator chased down. Such projects have been funded by local governments and police forces.

Phoenix Industries announced the successful completion of the first trial project with their PelletPAVE™ pelletized rubber modified binder. Approximately 150 mix tons of the rubber modified hot mix asphalt was produced and placed in Pahrump, Nevada.

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