Canadian tyre recycler Ecolomondo Corporation says it has installed a new milling line and expects to begin commissioning in February 2025.
As previously announced, the company was in the final stages of the commercialisation of its Hawkesbury TDP facility when it discovered a major deficiency in its recovered carbon black milling line that was already installed.
After numerous months of testing, the milling line was incapable to achieve the promised output of 1,600 lbs per hour of recovered carbon black (rCB) nor was it capable to yield a particle size of 10-15 microns, the particle size promised and required by most of the company’s rCB off-takers.
The company adds it immediately undertook the necessary steps to select and purchase a replacement milling line capable of fulfilling the required output and particle size.
The new milling line will have the capabilities of milling 2,200 lbs per hour of rCB and produce the particle size of 10-15 microns, which should satisfy all of its rCB off-takers.
During 2024, the company also worked on improvements in its other processes and recently announced another milestone in its tyre shredding output. It believes that it is now capable to produce enough crumb rubber to supply two TDP reactors at full projected capacity of 15,000 lbs per batch for over two batches for each reactor every day.
Headquartered in Québec, the company has a proprietary Thermal Decomposition technology (TDP), which recovers high value re-usable commodities from scrap tyre waste, notably rCB, oil, syngas, fibre and steel.