Tyre recycler Pyrum Innovations, together with recycling company Remondis, are planning to construct a Pyrum plant to recycle end-of-life tyres (ELT). For this purpose, a letter of intent was recently signed. The plant is to be located on a Weserport…
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Pyrum starts commissioning of tyre recycling lines in Dillingen
German tyre recycler Pyrum Innovations, which has been developing its pyrolysis technology, has announced the successful start of the warm commissioning of Reactors 2 and 3 at its main plant in Dillingen/Saar. It adds that the first oil will soon…
Zeppelin Systems to build ReOil’s second tyre recycling plant in Poland
Plant engineering firm Zeppelin Systems says it has been awarded the engineering contract for the construction of a second pyrolysis plant by Polish company ReOil. Construction is scheduled to start in February 2024. After completion of the gigantic plant, spanning…
Pyrum to build fifth tyre recycling plant in Czech republic
Tyre recycler Pyrum says it will build a new factory with a capacity of 20,000 tonnes/year of end-of-life tyres (ELTs), together with an unnamed Czech energy group, at the Czech border area adjacent to Germany. It will begin operations in…
Risorce raises EUR12 mn for tyre recycling facility in Belgium
Belgian start-up Risorce has successfully raised EUR12.5 million for the construction of a facility to recycle used tyres. Unlike other recycling plants, the company will turn tyres into usable petroleum and gas products, it adds. Based in Baelen (Liège province),…
Bridgestone commences pyrolysis testing of tyre recycling
Tyre maker Bridgestone Corporation has announced that it has commenced the production of tyre derived oil and recycled carbon black through pyrolysis of used tyres using test units installed at Bridgestone Innovation Park in Kodaira City, Tokyo. This initiative is…
Wastefront ties up with Weber & Schaer for rCB
Norwegian waste tyre recycling company, Wastefront, says that one of Europe’s largest distributors of products for the rubber industry, Weber & Schaer has signed a strategic offtake and on-sale agreement for its recovered carbon black (rCB). The agreement secures Wastefront’s…
Enviro, Antin, Michelin to set up large-scale tyre recycling group
Tyre recycler Scandinavian Enviro Systems and private equity firm Antin Infrastructure Partners have established a joint venture to, based on Enviro’s technology, create what they say is the world’s first large-scale tyre recycling group. The jv plans to establish plants…
SK Incheon invests in tyre recycler LD Carbon
SK Incheon Petrochem, a a wholly owned subsidiary of SK Innovation, has acquired LD Carbon, a Seoul-based start-up with technologies for recycling waste tyres. The move is part of the oil refinery’s effort to diversify its business portfolio to recycling,…
Recycling: Thermoset rubber circular economy
Devulcanising crumb rubber from scrapped tyres to mould new engineered products presents a solution to the huge and ever growing ecological issue of waste tyres and a way to a real circular economy for thermoset rubbers. One of the biggest…