Texas-headquartered McDermott International has been awarded a Front-End Engineering Design (FEED) contract from the Michelin Group for an innovative waste tyre technology enabling large-scale production of recycled carbon black. This award follows a similar FEED announcement in April, which is focusing on the production of regenerated styrene to make synthetic rubber for tires.
In the implementation of this waste-to-value solution, the Scandinavian Enviro Systems’ licensed pyrolysis process, a technology that separates bulky waste into raw materials for repeated production, will be used.
Samik Mukherjee, Executive Vice President and CEO of McDermott said that Michelin has chosen McDermott’s engineering and project delivery expertise to advance the former’s next generation sustainable tyres. McDermott has worked with Michelin since 2008 at varying stages of production, from design to start up.
The project will be executed from McDermott’s office in Brno, Czech Republic. Work will begin immediately and is expected to be completed in first quarter 2022.