News: Tire Recycling & Pyrolysis

Spanish waste managing agency Signus has presented its new green badge T – it will be provided to Spanish tire recyclers that comply with the group’s environmental standards. Currently, over 850 tire workshops have been granted this honorable badge – this indicates that the organizations have already met Signus’s requirements that have been established so the broader environmental goals are met.

Recovered carbon black producer Pyrolyx AG is ready to set a second pyrolysis facility which will be constructed in Terre Haute, US. This move comes after the company relocated its main office from German Munich to Terre Haute, Indiana. One pyrolysis plant has already been built in the US by Pyrolyx; the company says that the next facility will be very similar to the US-based tire pyrolysis plant.

In January, the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) presented a proposal seeking the restraint of the microplastics applications; the presented document relies on the Chemicals Agency’s studies of the threats that the added microplastics pose to environment and human health. All businesses, including tire recyclers, that are affected by the new proposal on microplastics of European Chemicals Agency, are welcome to reach the ECHA, as the organization will launch public consultation that will last until September 20. Meanwhile, ECHA called on the enterprises to make early submissions to facilitate the process.

The European Tyre Recycling Association (ETRA) that comprises nine board members has chosen its new vice president – the position is now held by the UK representative, Peter Taylor OBE, who is a former Secretary General of the Imported Tyre Manufacturers’ Association (ITMA). Peter Taylor is a very experienced specialist in the tire industry – he worked in the segment for more than 50 years, and he spent around two decades in the field of tire processing.

A Hungarian city of Zalaegerszeg in the Zala region will see the construction of a new rubber bitumen plant capable of recycling 20,000 tons of scrap tires annually; the facility is expected to become operative next year. The company behind the plant construction is the local energy and chemical company MOL. Moreover, the development is possible thanks to a huge investment allocated by MOL; at the same time, the State Enterprise Investment Support Program also provided partial funding to the initiative. In total, the sum of investment is estimated at 3 billion Hungarian Forint.

MMEC Mannesmann GmbH (MMEC), a global leader in engineering, procurement and construction (EPC), and Black Bear, the Dutch tire-to-carbon-black upcycling-company today announced a strategic partnership to accelerate the rollout of Black Bear’s breakthrough technology to produce recovered Carbon Black (rCB) from end-of-life tires. MMEC Mannesmann is well known for executing complex projects in the oil, gas, refining, chemical and renewables industries.

Danish environmental company Genan Holding A/S has purchased an operator of Portugal’s biggest tire recycling facility, BioSafe, which is a minor of NORS S.A. – a corporation providing transporting and equipment solutions. The deal for the takeover has been already signed by the two companies, and the transaction was fully completed late April.

More than $18,000 will be allocated by the US company Lift-A-Loft Corp. to conduct environmental probe of the old CR3 tire recycling site that had endured a long-lasting tire fire in August 2003. The Delaware-based company will have to provide the funds for the area’s testing after it signed a deal with the Indiana Department of Environmental Management which initially urged Lift-A-Loft Corp to pay a fine of more than $23,000 after the corporation allegedly violated waste control laws at its plant two year ago. The deal also forces the corporation to pay to the state the remaining part of the fine estimated at $4,680.

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