Pyrolyx AG, which has developed the first green, sustainable process for the recovery of high-quality, marketable carbon black from end-of-life tires, has announced that its method has now been successfully patented for the US and Chinese markets. Moreover, Pyrolyx fully expects its environmentally friendly and currently unique technology to be patented in other countries during the course of 2014. At present the company is completing the engineering process for the construction of the first commercial Pyrolyx plant in Germany.
A Munich-based company, Pyrolyx has developed a unique process that enables valuable raw materials such as carbon black to be made from commercial rubber granules produced from for instance end-of-life tyres. Carbon black is used to manufacture tyres and various industrial rubber items.
The Pyrolyx process enables a sustainable closed recycling loop for the first time. Pyrolyx owns all the intellectual property rights to Pyrolyx environmental technology and has various patents and patents pending concerning the industrial production of carbon black.