News: Tire Recycling & Pyrolysis

ANRPC recently announced the release of its new Natural Rubber Trends and Statistics. Based on ANRPC’s preliminary estimates, the world production of natural rubber (NR) registered a fall of 6.5% (4.930 million tons) during the first five months of 2019, on a year-to-year basis. Meanwhile, the world consumption recorded 5.789 million tons, 0.9% increase (5.376 million tons) during the same period last year. This favorable market fundamentals have kept the sentiment in NR market strong despite the tension between China and US, ANRPC reports.

The second Tyre Recycling Forum at The Tire Cologne, 9th – 12th June 2020, will be a two-day open conference with eight panels of key interest to the tyre recycling sector and the tyre and rubber market. The event will take place in Hall Nine, on the Wednesday 10th and Thursday 11th June, on the area dedicated to the Tyre Recycling Forum in Hall Nine of Koelnmesse in Cologne, Germany.

On September 15-17, China is going to hold The 32nd Annual Conference of China Tyre Recycling Association and The First International Cooperation Summit on Tire and Rubber Recycling in Kunshan, Jiangsu, China. Robert Weibold is speaking at the event among other renowned international experts invited by China Tyre Recycling Association. In addition to highlighting up-to-date trends in tire recycling and pyrolysis, Robert Weibold will also elaborate on how Europeans see Chinese technology providers for these industries.

5.300 tons of tires shredded by Aliapur – French waste tire management authority – were shipped on July 11, 2019 on board the bulk carrier “Notos” from Dunkirk to Dakar. The goal for the waste tire management authority was to supply alternative fuel to the Sococim de Rufisque cement plant in Senegal using the waterway and the sea. Senegal becomes the first country in West Africa to receive tire-derived fuel supplies from Aliapur. It is also the first time that Aliapur operates from Dunkirk, a sea and river port with the capacity to absorb the storage in transit of 5,300 tons of TDF.

Australian Tyre Recyclers Association (ATRA) reports about the decision of the Council of Australian Governments (COAG) to ban the exports of various waste products, including scrap tires. COAG has introduced a timetable to make the ban effective; the initiative was supported and welcomed by ATRA. “There are two distinct streams of used tyre exports, one is sustainable, the other clearly is not and a timetable to ban the export of whole baled tyres from Australia is welcomed”, said Robert Kelman, Executive Officer at ATRA.

The Association of Natural Rubber Producing Countries (ANRPC) recently published a press release about its organizing the 12th edition of its Annual Rubber Conference on October 7, 2019. The Government of Indonesia is hosting the conference in Yogyakarta. In its press release, ANRPC highlights that the smallholder-dominated natural rubber (NR) production sector has limitations to adopt the sustainability norms for NR which are initiated and largely set by the automotive tire manufacturing industry.

ELDAN Recycling A/S – Danish manufacturer of tire recycling equipment – tells about its upgraded tire shredder which now has a frequency drive and, according to the manufacturer, enables to run a plant at the same capacity with significantly lower power consumption. The manufacturer highlights that ELDAN Super Chopper is the natural choice for anyone looking to invest in a heavy-duty pre-chopper designed to handle most materials, including end of life tires, even without prior debeading, cables and electronic waste, refrigerators, aluminium, municipal solid waste (i.e. MSW) to wind turbine wings (cut-off), plastics and industrial waste.

Scandinavian Enviro Systems – a renowned tire pyrolysis equipment manufacturer from Sweden – reports that its production company has now obtained ISO certification in accordance with ISO 9001 and ISO 14001 regarding the company’s quality and environmental management systems. “Our production has been running in accordance with both certifications for a long time, being certified formally is important in our customer dialogues, as it’s often required,” says Thomas Sörensson, CEO of Enviro.

A new US research on synthetic turf fields that contain tire-derived crumb rubber has found that the material posed no risk to human health. The investigation commenced in 2016 and was run by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention / Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (CDC/ATSDR) and the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). The two authoritative bodies worked in association with the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC).