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A Dutch company Black Bear is ready to advance its tire recycling process transforming tires into carbon black, and it managed to receive additional funding of €5 million; the recent growth capital follows prior funding of €11million. The most recent sum became available thanks to a venture capital company from Belgium Capricorn Venture Partners and Particon that provides investment to innovators in tech. Following this investment, the overall financing has managed to reach €16 million.

In tire recycling, one can create different types of output depending on production technology. From each output type, several applications can be produced, hence different industries and markets can be targeted. Currently, there is a wide range of products that can be developed via tire recycling. However, to significantly increase profits, R&D activities prove to be an integral part of tire recycling. Success of products on the market largely depends on the regions where they are sold.

The scope of application of recycled tire rubber continues expanding all around the world, and Spain aims to catch up with the trend. Spain’s province of Granada has come up with the first is Spain innovative railway track system relying on recycled tire rubber. Now, recycled tire rubber will be used in subways to reduce noise produced by train tracks. The noise reduction is possible thanks to special technology made with a mixture of rubber from old tires and polyurethane resin, which ensures elastic properties of railroad tracks.

Big Tyre Recycling Corporation (BTRC) – an innovator and ultra-high-pressure (UHP) water jetting technology supplier from Belgium – reports about its breakthroughs in technology for recycling extra-large mining and truck tires (up to R63) well known as off-the-road (OTR) tires. The company is currently looking for investors and strategic partners for construction and maintenance of OTR tire recycling units worldwide. Currently, OTR tire recycling remains a pressing issue in both developed and developing countries all around the world. Every year hundreds of thousands tons of OTR tires are stockpiled around the world while recycling rates remain negligibly small. BTRC asserts it has found not just commercially viable, but a highly-profitable solution to tackle the global issue.

According to the recent press release of Eldan Recycling, advances in the market of electrical components enabled Eldan to develop a new shredder – frequency drive Eldan Super Chopper – with a significantly lower power consumption and a remarkably lower price than previous models. The company reports that for more than 20 years the Eldan Super Chopper has been a popular heavy-duty pre-chopper in the tire recycling industry.

Plymouth’s huge tire factory operated by Bandvulc Group has demonstrated impressive expansion since it was purchased by Continental Tyre Group in 2017. Currently, it handles a quarter of UK’s market, which is staggering 180,000 retreaded tires annually. Thus, Bandvulc Group has gradually gained a status of the UK’s key fleet management service provider that also functions as a truck tire retreader.

China’s Changzhou’s Bohai New Area was chosen by local company Lunte Petrochemical as a site for a new waste tire recycling plant with the annual capacity of over 238 kilotonnes. The announcement was made by Chinese authorities in October. The facility’s commissioning has become possible due to Lunte’s phase one plan that saw investment of USD 289.2 million (2 billion CNY).

Given durability and non-biodegradable nature of tires, these products pose an incredible challenge for waste managers all over the world, including Oman. However, a student from Caledonian College of Engineering (CCE) in Oman, Fatma Sulaiman Nasser al Kindi, has come up with an innovative solution in her country when she suggested how waste tires could be used in the construction industry. She, same as other researchers, pinpointed that scrap tires pose a threat to the environment on a global level. When Fatma noticed that tires were normally dumped in the streets and junkyards in Oman polluting the environment, she was puzzled with a question how tires containing a lot of precious material could be used in a productive way. Later, she decided that tire recycling enabling development of concrete aggregate out of scrap tires was the answer.