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Precimeca is a recognized French manufacturer of shredders founded in 1975 who specializes in tire recycling equipment since the 1990’s. Active member of the French and European Standardization Committees (AFNOR and CEN), Precimeca designs tire shredders and raspers tailored for specific customers’ requirements.

The World Economic Forum annually held in a Swiss city Davos has awarded Lehigh Technologies, a company specializing in micronized rubber powder manufacturing, due to the corporation’s continuing efforts to give new life to materials derived from scrap tires. Lehigh Technologies is headquartered in US, Atlanta, and is a part of a global name Group Michelin after it acquired the firm more than a year ago.

To put down the fire, 27 fire units arrived at the site on Abbeville Highway, the county’s fire department said. Moreover, the crews that tackle threatening material also worked at the old recycling plant. In addition, Department of Health and Environmental Control was fully prepared to assist authorities if needed.

Looking back into 2018, The Association of Natural Rubber Producing Countries (ANRPC) reported that for eleven consecutive months up until December the global demand for natural rubber was growing and escalated 5 percent overall reaching more than 12,850 million tons, whereas in 2017, during the same time span, the number was just a bit over 12,200 million tons. This development came at a time when the global manufacturing of natural rubber grew more than 5 percent reaching over 12,800 million tons, as in 2017 it was a bit more that 12 million tons.

Commenting on the disposal, EPA’s manager stated that the procedure was on the right track as the initiative follows a plan which allowed removing tires from the most high-risk areas. Until now, EPA managed to eliminate scrap tires from the eastern part of the stockpile, and currently the procedures are conducted to remove tires in the southern part. According to EPA’s manager, all goes in line with the plan and the deadline will be met, however the process may be impeded by sudden bad weather.

An investment of over $11 million in total has been allocated to more than 30 groups and 9 companies in California to advance reuse of old tires. The money distributed in grants became available thanks to CalRecycle and its three tire programs, including the one focusing on rubberized pavement, and one more – on tire-derived aggregates.

Qatar is now attempting to advance the reuse of scrap tire rubber in order to stop tire incineration – when scrap tires are burnt and not recycled, they generate CO2 emissions. Qatar General Electricity and Water Corporation (Kahramaa) represented by the state program Tarsheed is behind the new sustainable effort. Kahramaa’s aim is to cut CO2 emission by 7 percent in 3 years. To attain this objective, the organization will encourage the locals to start actively reusing tires in decorative art works and installations and in sports.

The researchers are expected to keep on conducting the project to make sure the results are verified so the product that has pyrolysis oil and used as fuel is ready for commercialization. One of the objectives of the initiative is to reduce consumption of fossil oil. And to attain it, Sandström said that it was necessary to find refineries that would accept tire pyrolysis oil as a raw material so this would be commercially successful.