News: Tire Recycling & Pyrolysis

Innovative products capable of combining high performance, quality, environmental sustainability and exceptional resistance to shocks, enhancing elasticity and providing excellent response to vibrations and high soundproofing characteristics, available to industries and consumers. From 9 to 11 June the innovative Tyreplast materials made thanks to the union of recycled rubber powder from ELTs and thermoplastic materials return to the MECSPE in Bologna Fiere: an innovation developed in the Tyreplast research project promoted by Ecopneus with the support of Idea Plast.

600 disused tires were recently collected in the Malvinas neighborhood of Jujuy Argentina. In a programme called “Neumatón”, they collected 600 disused tires in Jujuy. “It’s not just about recycling casings, but about dengue prevention,” local officials stressed. Residents of the southern sector of the city, in Argentina’s most north-westerly province bordering Chile and Bolivia,

The 27th ETRA Conference on Tire Recycling, which had been postponed by Covid, was held in Brussels. It was a great tribute to the late Dr. Valerie Shulman, whose presence was missed by many who knew her and were familiar with her emphatic control of the previous events.

Continental continues its commitment as a main and safety partner as well as a supplier of tyres for the Tour de France. Prior to this year’s edition of the Tour de France begins in Copenhagen on July 1, 2022, Continental will extend its long-standing, trusting partnership and sponsorship activities up to and including 2027. As one of the five main partners and the stage winner partner, together with the Tour’s organising body, ASO, the tyre manufacturer will continue to actively shape the world’s largest and most important cycling race in the coming years, and make its contribution toward a safe and sustainable future for the Tour.

Pyrum Innovations AG reports further progress in the European Union’s BlackCycle project. On 24 May 2022, the successful completion of the trial campaign was celebrated. In this campaign, various process conditions regarding the composition of ELT, the temperature profile and the residence time were first extensively researched on a laboratory scale. After successful determination of the optimal reaction parameters, several experimental campaigns on an industrial scale followed.

The global manufacturing community is certainly used to facing and overcoming challenges, yet 2022 has been particularly problematic with the pressures of soaring energy costs and resource limitations. These obstacles are forcing the sector to look afresh at sustainable raw material alternatives, including Recovered Carbon Black. . Made from recycled waste tyres, rCB can, depending on the applications, fully replace virgin carbon black or be blended with and integrated into existing recipes, offering sustainability & cost benefits.

According to TRS, not all rubber powders are created equal. TRS’s proprietary process starts with a highly specialized water-jet system that pulverizes tire tread into fine powder, free from steel and synthetic fibres. Heat- and chemical-free jet milling ensures the highest quality fine powder outputs. Some of the benefits that can be observed when using TyreXol™

T.O. Fuller State Park outside Memphis, Tennessee has had a new 2.5 mile trail laid using recycled tire rubber. The walking and biking path is one of the longest rubber-base trails in the U.S. Local contractors and volunteers collected more than 24,000 tires that had been illegally dumped in the area from passenger, commercial truck and heavy equipment vehicles.

Rubber from end-of-life tires acts like sunscreen for roads and halves the rate of sun damage when mixed with bitumen, new research by RMIT University and Tyre Stewardship Australia (TSA) has found. RMIT University engineers collaborated with Tyre Stewardship Australia to discover the perfect blend that is both UV-resistant and withstands traffic loads, with the potential to save governments millions on road maintenance annually.