News: Tire Recycling & Pyrolysis

The conference attracts over 400 delegates each year. As Europe's leading rCB industry event, the conference provides a unique opportunity for delegates to get the latest industry information and network face-to-face with global experts. 2025 highlights include:

Liberty Tire Recycling, North America’s provider of tire recycling services, has released its 2024 Sustainability Report, highlighting another year of progress toward its vision of a more sustainable, circular economy. In 2024, Liberty collected more than 215 million end-of-life tires and reclaimed over 4.7 billion pounds of rubber—creating innovative, high-value recycled products that support infrastructure, manufacturing, and energy recovery.

Pyrum Innovations AG (Pyrum) and Thermo Lysi SA have signed an engineering contract in the amount of EUR 2.2 million. The contract marks an important milestone for the company, as it is the first engineering contract to be signed after a plant has been granted a construction permit. Pyrum will now begin the detailed engineering of the planned plant, which is expected to take six months.

Fornnax Technology invites you to visit its booth at Tyre & Rubber Indonesia 2025, taking place from 21st to 23rd May at AJIExpo, Jakarta. The company will showcase its high-capacity recycling machines for tyres, municipal solid waste (MSW), e-waste, cables, and aluminium. Discover innovative recycling solutions that exceed industry standards and are engineered to advance sustainability and circular economy objectives.

The Government of Gujarat, through the State Pollution Control Board (GPCB), has officially approved the establishment of continuous tyre pyrolysis plants for the production of tyre pyrolysis oil (TPO) and recovered carbon black (RCB). This marks the end of a 13-year ban on such operations, previously imposed due to environmental and public health concerns. The approval is seen as a significant milestone for the tyre recycling sector, particularly in one of India's most industrialised states.

Scandinavian Enviro Systems (Enviro) and the French tire manufacturer Michelin have initiated a collaboration following successful tests, which means that Enviro will recycle valuable raw materials such as carbon black and oil from Michelin's used racing tires. The recycled carbon black can then be reused by Michelin to produce new racing and other tires. "Racing tires represent the pinnacle of tire technology, and for Enviro to be involved in providing a circular solution for the racing tires of the world's largest tire manufacturer is a mark of quality for what our technology can achieve," says Fredrik Emilson, CEO of Enviro.

On World Recycling Day, Spain’s Tratamiento Neumáticos Usados (TNU) warned that despite 100% of collected end-of-life tires being recycled, the country still lacks a complete circular economy for tires. While Spain excels in collection and treatment, the weak market demand for recycled products and limited green public procurement policies are stalling progress.

On September 16 and 17, 2025, the Alliance for the Future of Tires (AZuR), in cooperation with KRONE, will host the 2nd AZuR Retreading Summit at the KRONE Trailer Forum in Werlte, Germany. This two-day industry event will bring together stakeholders from logistics, the public sector, industry, research, and the retreading sector to discuss practical solutions for sustainable fleets and a closed-loop tire economy.

MARIS has designed and patented a new two-step devulcanization process to produce devulcanized rubber with very high-quality standards. By “devulcanization” we mean a process of selective breaking of the S-S and C-S bonds of the elastomer which causes only a limited degradation of the polymeric structure (C-C bond).