News: Tire Recycling & Pyrolysis

International Rubber Study Group (IRSG) announced the press release for the collaboration with Nanyang Technological University Singapore (NTU) to support research on sustainability in the rubber industry. The collaboration involves: - Research on Impact of Climate Change on the rubber industry - Developing a white paper based on the IRSG statistical model - Further collaborations in the pipeline to track traceability and sustainability in the rubber supply chain.

TSA recently provided the ‘Queensland Regional Business Case for a Circular Economy for Used Tyres’ reports for North & Far North Queensland, and South West Queensland. Developed in partnership with the QLD government, Local Government Association of QLD, local government, industry associations, resource recovery sector participants and community members, the document outlines a business case for greater success in recycling and alleviating the impacts of waste disposal and illegal dumping of used tyres.

The European Recycling Industries’ Confederation (EuRIC) strongly rejects an EU proposal that will indirectly ban materials from tyres as part of its effort to eradicate microplastics. Each year around 150 million tyres are processed for recycling annually – that’s one tyre for every three EU citizens. This rubber from recycled tyres has a wide range of everyday benefits that may not always be obvious – including essential materials for artificial football pitches, children’s playgrounds, and filling potholes.

Pennsylvania-based rubber flooring manufacturer Ecore International plans to invest $25.5 million to open a regional manufacturing facility in Ozark, Alabama, where it will create 84 jobs. Ecore specializes in transforming reclaimed materials into high-performance flooring and surface products. The privately held company based in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, is the largest converter of reclaimed rubber in North America, and its largest raw material is scrap truck tires.

Tyre Stewardship Australia (TSA) recently announced that funding is now available for Australian designed, developed and built solutions that will increase tyre resource recovery and decrease the burden of waste for future generations.

Sharing the same vision of implementing circularity within the rubber and tire manufacturing industry, Tyre Recycling Solutions (TRS) announced a partnership with Contec, promoting their products and technologies as well as joint research and development activities.

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The chemical recycling of end-of-life tires (ELT) via state-of-the-art pyrolysis technologies does not only avoid greenhouse gas emissions compared to today’s conventional production processes, but it also increases the resource efficiency while closing the loop in the transition to a circular economy. However, civil organisations criticise the production of fuel through chemical recycling, sometimes mutilate the terminology, pointing to the associated environmental impacts, while they overlook the fact that modern ELT pyrolysis concepts are not geared towards the production of "fuels" (which, by the way, should not be defined as "recycling" but rather as less preferred "recovery" according to the EU waste hierarchy).

To produce devulcanized rubber with very high-quality standards, EVOREC Rubber Plus (F. lli MARIS S.p.A) – an Italian technology provider for evoluted rubber and plastic recycling solutions and innovator in the field of end-of-life tire rubber devulcanization – has designed and patented a new two-step devulcanization process. The first stage involve devulcanization of the rubber by means of a co-rotating twin-screw extruder – characteristics equivalent to Evorec Rubber. The rubber thus devulcanized will go to feed, by direct connection, the second extruder. The second stage, given by the combination of a single-screw extruder and a screen-changer, offers the possibility of achieving significant advantages: