Toyoda Gosei Co., Ltd, a global supplier of automotive parts using rubber and plastics technology, is doubling rubber recycling capacity at its Morimachi Plant in central Japan to boost recycling of automotive rubber. While recycling steel and plastic in the auto industry…
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Gravita India acquires rubber recycling plant in Romania
Recycling firm Gravita India Limited has announced that its subsidiary, Gravita Netherlands BV (GNBV), has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to acquire a waste tyre recycling plant in Romania. This facility, with a capacity of around 17,000 tonnes/year, will…
Evonik: improved process to accelerate tyre recycling
German chemical firm Evonik says it wants to help make rubber materials from scrap tyres easier to re-use in the manufacture of new automobile tyres. So far, the suitability of recycled rubber has been very limited because its chemical structure…
Marubeni invests in Thai ELT recycling firm to expand green tyres
Japan’s largest trading house Marubeni Corporation has invested in Green Rubber Energy Company Limited (GRE), which is developing an end-of-life tyre (ELT) pyrolysis recycling business in Thailand. With almost 30 million tonnes of tyres discarded annually around the world, a…
Australian govt to invest A$44 mn to reduce waste in WA
The Federal and Western Australian Labor governments are co-investing A$44 million in nine new recycling projects, including tyre recycling, to improve recycling capabilities across Perth and in regional areas in Western Australia. In total, the nine projects will divert an…
Bridgestone, Grupo BB&G and Versalis tie-up for recycling tyres to tyres
Tyre firm Bridgestone EMEA (Bridgestone), technology company Grupo BB&G (BB&G) and Italian chemical firm Versalis (Eni) have entered into an agreement aimed at establishing a closed-loop ecosystem to transform end-of-life tyres into new tyres. The agreement will bring together the…
Mitsubishi Chemical exploring recycling of end-of-life tyres through coke ovens
Japan’s Mitsubishi Chemical Group (MCG) says it is undertaking studies to perform chemical recycling of end-of-life tyres (ELTs) by utilising the coke ovens at its Kagawa Plant (Sakaide City, Kagawa Prefecture). It aims to begin marketing sustainable carbon black made…
Neste expands logistics for plastics/tyre recycling in Finland
Green materials firm Neste says it is expanding its logistics infrastructure for liquefied recycled raw materials at its refinery in Porvoo, Finland, including materials such as liquefied waste plastic and liquefied rubber tyres. This lays the foundation to handling larger…
Klean/L4T Group tie-up for tyre recycling in Japan
Canadian recycling firm Klean Industries Inc has announced that it has executed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Ireland’s L4T Group Life for Tyres Ltd, a company that develops, builds, and operates end-of-life tyre manufacturing & pyrolysis facilities. Klean and…
Neste, Borealis and Covestro tie-up for waste tyre recycling into plastics
Chemical firms Neste, Borealis and Covestro have signed a project agreement to enable the recycling of discarded tyres into high-quality plastics for automotive applications. The collaboration aims at driving circularity in plastics value chains and the automotive industry. When no…