News: Tire Recycling & Pyrolysis

Tyrecycle – an Australian end-of-life tyre recycling company – moves to expand its operations in Sydney with a new state-of-the-art manufacturing plant. Australian e-magazine Waste Management Review reports that Australia’s leading tyre recycler, Tyrecycle is gearing up for a purpose-built multi-million dollar rubber crumb manufacturing plant in Sydney, following significant growth in the uptake of its products produced from end-of-life tyres. Tyrecycle Chief Executive Officer Jim Fairweather says the move is to cater for strong demand over the past two years, with the company experiencing a 30 per cent growth in sales of rubber crumb.

ShipInsight – an online magazine focused on ship operation, ship management and marine journalism – reports that an energy and commodity trader Vitol and Wastefront, the Norwegian waste tire pyrolysis company, have announced a 10-year offtake agreement for the production of liquid hydrocarbons (pyrolytic fuel oil) and certain non-liquid products which will be produced at Wastefront’s first waste tire pyrolysis plant in Sunderland, UK, on its completion in 2023. In addition to the offtake agreement, Vitol and Wastefront have also established a framework agreement for the 10-year offtake from future end-of-life tire pyrolysis plants to be developed and built by Wastefront.

The e-magazine Cycle Industry News reports that Madison – one of the UK’s leading bicycle parts and accessories distributors – haD linked up with national tube and tyre recycling company Velorim in a bid to offer its retailers a channel to dispose of end-of-life tyres and rubber waste. The magazine says that with the legislation on scrapping bicycle tyres now caught up with the same rules applicable to car tyres. Velorim set out to assist retailers in disposing of their waste.

The government of the United Kingdom recently issued a statement where it announced that the low risk waste position (LRWP) applies to the use waste tyres in escape ladders in water storage reservoirs. When one follows the conditions in this LRWP, the use waste tyres in escape ladders in water storage reservoirs is allowed without an environmental permit for a waste operation.

Scandinavian Enviro Systems (Enviro) reports that its Recovered carbon black will be introduced in a customer-specific rubber compound supplied by Trelleborg Mixing Forsheda. According to Enviro, the introduction means that its recovered carbon black takes a step into a new segment and is the result of successful production tests and a long-term collaboration between the parties. Volumes and dates for future deliveries remain to be determined.

Gradeall International – a renowned manufacturer of tyre bailing and end-of-life tyre recycling equipment from Northern Ireland – introduced a new machine in its tyre recycling range, the Car Sidewall Cutter. The new cutter is specifically designed to downsize passenger car tyres to prepare them for shredding as well as other recycling processes. The manufacturer says that the Car Tyre Sidewall Cutter builds upon the Gradeall team’s experience gathered from the Sidewall Cutter, another and bigger machine for efficient and cost-effective cutting of tyre sidewalls for larger tyres. The Car Tyre Sidewall Cutter is a smaller machine designed specifically for dealing with end-of-life car and passenger vehicle tyres.

The European Tire and Rubber Manufacturers Association reports that in the context of the “Circular Economy Stakeholder Conference: Together for a cleaner and more competitive Europe” held on 3-4 November 2020, ETRMA joined forces to bring further the EU Commission commitment to scope, during 2020-2021, the development of possible further Unionwide end-of-waste (EoW) and by-product criteria (BP).

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Scandinavian Enviro Systems (Enviro) reports that its representative in the UK market, 2G BioPOWER, has been granted the equivalent of EUR 240,000 in state funding for a feasibility study that will investigate the possibilities for the large-scale introduction of Enviro’s recovery technology for end-of-life tires in the UK. According to Enviro, the objectives include investigating the possibilities for recovering oil and carbon black from domestic end-of-life tires.