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…
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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…
Fortum/Marubeni tie up for graphite battery recycling
Fortum Battery Recycling has entered into a preliminary agreement and signed a memorandum of understanding with Marubeni Corporation to jointly build a sustainable lithium-ion battery recycling chain, focusing on graphite recycling. Marubeni will support Fortum in supplying in-process waste materials…
CSRC/Sheico to set up tyre recycling plant in North America
Taiwanese firm CSRC Group, together Taiwanese compatriot Sheico Group, are teaming up to set up a tyre recycling plant in Phoenix City, Alabama, that will use pyrolysis technology to produce recovered carbon black (rCB). CSRC will partner with Eco Infinic…
Circtec raises EUR150 mn funding for tyre recycling plant in Europe
UK recycling start-up Circtec has secured fundng of EUR150 million to construct, what is said to be, Europe’s largest end-of-life tyre (ELT) pyrolysis recycling facility in Delfzijl, the Netherlands. The funds include a EUR75 million equity investment led by Novo…
South Korean firms jointly develop tyre from recycled PET
To reduce carbon emissions, the South Korean industrial sector has developed and commercialised what it says is the country’s first tyre using chemically recycled polyethylene terephthalate (PET). South Korean companies SK Chemicals, Hyosung Advanced Materials, and Hankook Tire & Technology…
Remondis/Pyrum planning tyre recycling plant in Germany; BASF provides EUR25 mn loan to Pyrum
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…
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…