News: Tire Recycling & Pyrolysis

The Association of Natural Rubber Producing Countries (ANRPC), in line with its recent outlook, says that the natural rubber (NR) prices started recovering since the last week of April driven by the positive sentiment due to the relaxation of the COVID-19 containment measures and lockdowns, reopening of economic activities across countries, positive developments in crude oil market, and a substantial contraction in the global production of NR. The recovery is likely to continue, albeit at a slow pace and subject to a set of risk factors.

The European Tyre Recycling Association (ETRA) is holding a webinar “Horizon ETRA” on June 4 (16:00 – 18:00), which will explain the main changes introduced in the updated version of the Horizon 2020 Work Programme. ETRA says this will help participate to the last calls of this year as well as an introduction to the next Horizon Europe program. The Webinar will also give a description of the Life Program in view of the next call. ETRA says it is collaborating with NCP Brussels and hub-Brussels on a number of activities including a program of webinars and workshops on EU funded programs and other opportunities for SMEs. ETRA is collaborating with ANCI Lazio on the Life Porgramme and Circular Economy.

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A well-established Polish company is looking for a buyer of a waste processing facility based on pyrolysis technology. The business possesses all necessary permits from government and environmental authorities. The equipment is capable of processing end-of-life materials with the following EC waste codes:

CM informs that the demand for tire-derived fuel (TDF) is significantly increasing thanks to its advantages over traditional fuels, such as providing higher heating value than coal or wood. The heat produced from TDF is approximately thirty percent higher than that of coal and more than twice that of wood. TDF also provides lower sulfur oxide emissions when compared with coal, which has a higher sulfur content. Furthermore, combustion of TDF provides better operational consistency than other fuels used in waste-to-energy systems.

Devulcanization is a method of potentially “upgrading” end-of-life tire rubber. Devulcanized rubber is a higher valued form of end-of-life rubber, since devulcanized material can be partly revulcanized and partially replace virgin rubber in specific compounds and applications, including tires. Currently, only a small number of devulcanization systems are operating on industrial scale. These are primarily small-capacity systems, which are devulcanizing rubber production rejects (NR, SBR, NBR, EPDM, Butyl, etc.) or rubber recovered from waste tires. There are different types of devulcanization technologies on the market; among them are: are chemical, purely mechanical, machinal with supercritical CO2, chemical/mechanical, microwave, ultrasonic and organic

Bolder Industries CEO Tony Wibbeler said, “We are always looking for like-minded strategic partners who expand our customer support and service model. Swan Chemical’s parent, Thomas Swan & Co has been distributing, as well as manufacturing chemicals and advanced materials since 1926. Together, we can deliver to more customers, more efficiently so this partnership actually reduces the cost to customers.”

RubberCon together with International Rubber Conference are global conferences organized every year by The International Rubber Conference Organisation (IRCO), which is an association of rubber societies from all around the world which plan the calendar for the main international rubber conferences. Following on from success of RubberCon in April 2019 in Hangzhou in China, the event is returning back to Europe. The venue will be the Novotel Paris Centre Tour Eiffel. RubberCon 2020 (the name is retained despite the rescheduling to 2021) will be around "Environment and Recycling: A Strategic Challenge for Rubber Materials."

According to the recent press release, Energy Estate and InfraCo announced a joint venture “REVYRE” to develop and build innovative tire recycling plants in Australia and New Zealand, utilizing two revolutionary technologies – Vertech / RubberJet Valley tire disintegration and Tyromer rubber devulcanization. The stakeholders say that currently Australia disposes of over 60,000 tons of end-of-life tires (ELTs) by exporting them and approximately 100,000 tons are stockpiled in landfills or stockpiled onsite (predominantly within the mining and agricultural sectors). With the COAG agreed ban on used tire exportation from December 2021 the annual growth in Australia’s tire stockpile will be even greater. New Zealand currently generates 5-6 million ELTs annually which equates to close to 70,000 tons. These units are either shredded locally for domestic burning in cement kilns as Tyre Derived Fuel (TDF) or are baled and exported for use as TDF in Asia, the press release pinpoints.