News: Tire Recycling & Pyrolysis

On December 4-5, 2019, Robert Weibold will attend the 8th Scrap Tire Recycling Conference in Greenville, SC, United States. To arrange a meeting, please send an inquiry via email: robert@weibold.com or WhatsApp: +43 699 18181616. The conference is organized by Scrap Tire Research and Education Foundation (STREF). One of the conference’s main sponsors and supporters is the U.S. Tire Manufacturers Association (USTMA); additionally, the event receives support of the South Carolina Department of Commerce.

Tyre Stewardship Australia (TSA) wants to find new markets for products made out of scrap tire rubber by collaborating with innovative manufacturers. The body has already set up its Market Development Fund that provides assistance to local entrepreneurs. Since the Fund’s launch that took place four years ago, over 30 projects have received financial support.

In their recent press release CM Shredders – a renowned tire recycling equipment manufacturer from the United States – pinpoint that many within the recycling industry have a common misconception that, when it comes to industrial standards and environmental regulations, Mexico represents the Wild West. They report that Waste Eco Treatment (WET) is a company located in the state of Querétaro, Mexico that is committed to breaking those perceptions, which they say simply do not reflect the reality of their country, the people, or WET’s long-standing mission to taking care of the environment through the responsible collection, storage, transportation, and recycling of hazardous waste.

Scandinavian Enviro Systems report that the company now participates in India Sweden Innovations Accelerator (ISIA) as a step in a long-term investment in the Indian market. ISIA is a collaboration project between the Swedish Energy Agency, Business Sweden and the Confederation of Indian Industries, and is directed at selected Swedish companies with new technologies and solutions in the area of renewable energy that are ready to be launched worldwide.

Сhina’s reclaim rubber producer, the Asian giant Tianyu (Shandong) Rubber and Plastic Products Co. Ltd, is bringing the crucial tire component to the Indian market. According to the company’s export manager, India shows great demand for the product, but at the same time, the country has a large domestic reclaim rubber industry.

Australian tyre pyrolysis operator Green Distillation Technologies (GDT), which operates a processing plant at Warren in Western New South Wales and is in the capital fund raising stage for another plant in Toowoomba, Southern Queensland, will conduct the first industrial trials of a new thermoelectric device from the United States which converts heat to electric power. The company reports that the technology is a revolutionary new development.

Kal Tire – a Canadian tire manufacturing company – has certified its carbon calculator capable of determining carbon and fuel emissions that retreaded tires managed to prevent. Moreover, Kal Tire also announced that it is set to launch Maple Program that can estimate damage caused to the environment by a customer. The Maple Program relies on Kal Tire’s new carbon calculator’s data when it provides a customer with one to five stars as it estimates the proportion of their fleet running retreads instead of new tires.

Recovered Carbon Black (rCB) producer Klean Industries Inc. will become equipment supplier for five more India-based rCB upgrading facilities after signing a letter of intent; this move brings an overall number of facilities in the Asian country developed within the last two years to eight. The corporation has noted that the demand for rCB is substantial, and Klean has expansion plans throughout Asia. The demand growth comes at a time when the industry is witnessing virgin carbon black deficit and import levies in India.

Australian tyre recycler Green Distillation Technologies, which has developed a technology that turns worn-out tyres into oil, carbon and steel, has signed an agreement worth up to $50 million to establish up to five tyre recycling plants in South Africa. Volco Power Pty Ltd plans to build the plants in five of South Africa’s nine provinces depending on the volume of tyres available. Although Volco is comparatively new, its predecessor Synchrona, which had the same directors as Volco, specialized in the conversion of municipal solid waste and used tyres into electrity and other forms of energy in over fifteen countries across Africa.