News: Tire Recycling & Pyrolysis

On Monday, June 2nd, the Tyre Recovery Association (TRA) released the comprehensive dossier of evidence they submitted to the Environment Agency’s inquiry into Waste Tyres. The dossier summarises the years of persistent engagement with government and regulators, highlights the urgent need for reform in the management and export of end-of-life tyres (ELTs).

Scandinavian Enviro Systems (Enviro) founder Bengt Sture Ershag received the Lifetime Achievement Award at this year's Recircle Awards. Ershag received the award for his lifelong efforts to create a more sustainable handling of end-of-life tires. In addition to being the founder of Enviro, Bengt Sture Ershag is also the inventor and developer of the fundamentals of Enviro's leading pyrolysis technology.

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In 2018, the world took its first objective measure of our economy's circularity. The result, 9.1%, was already sobering. Just over nine percent of all materials consumed by the global economy were being recycled and reintroduced. The remaining ninety percent ended as waste or emissions or locked away in long-lived assets like buildings and infrastructure. Since then, the situation has only worsened despite the circular economy becoming popular in global sustainability dialogues.

The winners of the 2025 Recircle Awards were announced live at Autopromotec 2025 by the organisers, Retreading Business and Tyre & Rubber Recycling magazines. This global awards event recognises sustainability-driven innovation, practices, and services in the tyre retreading and recycling industries.

Carbon black has been used since ancient times in China and Egypt, yet today it remains a high-tech material worthy of scientific interest. This is due to the numerous ways it can be engineered to serve as an essential component in a variety of everyday products – from paint and textiles to tires, power cables and batteries. To explore both the fundamentals and the latest innovations, Orion S.A. scientists have authored a new resource: “Carbon Black” in the Encyclopedia of Polymer Science and Technology Online, available via the Wiley Online Library.

Infiniteria has entered additional delivery agreements regarding recovered carbon black from Uddevalla - 100 percent of carbon black production at Uddevalla 1 now fully booked. The deliveries concern recovered carbon black, rCB, which will be produced at Infiniteria's recycling plant in Uddevalla. The agreement is multi-year and is based on a mutual term sheet, with the total order value estimated to be approximately 100 million SEK over the contract period.

Smithers’ highly regarded Recovered Carbon Black (rCB) Conference is returning to Asia in 2025! This year’s event will take place on 4–5 September in Bangkok, Thailand, with an option to attend online for global accessibility.

The European Commission launched an investigation to assess whether anti-dumping measures are warranted on imports of tyres for passenger cars and light lorries from China. The launch follows a complaint from the EU tyre industry, which alleged that dumped Chinese imports are harming EU tyre producers. The tyre industry directly employs 75,000 people across fourteen EU Member States, and feeds into the EU’s considerable automotive industry.